The Things

Here's an idea of what's coming up! As you can see there are the 23 Things and then there is an Extra Thing each week. The idea is that you can choose to do the 23 Things, or just the Extra Things, or you can do the whole lot if you're feeling brave!

Week 1 (20th June)
Getting started
Thing 1 - Create google account and iGoogle start page
Thing 2 - Create blog and start blogging.
Extra Thing - ways to make blog look beautiful - templates, widgets etc.

Week 2 (27th June)
Keeping up to date/information cultivation
Thing 3 - RSS feeds
Thing 4 - Twitter
Extra Thing - Twitter extended - apps and platforms.

Week 3 (4th July)
Sharing your work
Thing 5 - Screenshots including Lightshot browser add-on
Thing 6 - Screencasts

Week 4 (11th July)
Organising yourself
Thing 7 - Doodle
Thing 8 - Google Calendar
Extra Thing - add library books feed to Google Reader and Google Calendar

Week 5 (18th July)
Organising yourself cont.
Thing 9 - Google Docs
Thing 10 - Pushnote/Evernote
Extra Thing - Dropbox

Week 6 (25th July)
Thing 11 - Reflection week

Week 7 (1st August)
Tagging
Thing 12 - Social bookmarking tools
Thing 13 - LibraryThing

Week 8 (8th August)
Social media
Thing 14 - Facebook
Thing 15 - LinkedIn
Extra Thing - Short blogging/media sharing sites e.g. Tumblr & Posterous

Week 9 (15th August) 

Photos, Video and Audio
Thing 16 - Flickr
Thing 17 - Podcasts
Extra Thing - Creative Commons Licensing

Week 10 (22nd August)
Thing 18 - Reflection week

Week 11 (29th August)
Presentation tools
Thing 19 - Slideshare
Thing 20 - Prezi
Extra Thing - Data Visualisation e.g. Gliffy and Wordle

Week 12 (5th September)
Organising yourself even more!
Thing 21 -  Reference management including Zotero and Endnote
Extra Thing - TeuxDeux and other list management tools

Week 13 (12th September)
Thing 22 - Wikis
Extra Thing - QR codes

Week 14 (19th September)
Thing 23 - Reflection week