I took a look at Garfield and King County Libraries' web 2.0 "contests" (I'm not sure why Garfield County decided to call it that). One thing about the King County blog I thought was useful was the quick link to a "convenient list of the 27 things". Could we have an overview list on the De Anza 2.0 blog, too? It would be neat to see what we'll be doing in upcoming weeks and would clearly show the progression of the "contest".
Are there any other academic libraries that are trying this kind of training for their staff? I only seem to hear of public libraries doing this. Kind of goes back to Alex's "Bastard Child of Satan" post: Are these technologies really the best thing for the academic library, or will they detract from our ultimate goal of providing students with resources to enrich their learning experience?
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Re: having a list of them. I think that was built up week by week, i.e., the full list wasn't viewable until the project was over. (Having it all up at once at the start would be a little daunting, too!) But I can post a quick summary list.
That would be cool. It wasn't even a list of the assignments, just the topics that would be covered each week.
The primary purpose of these excercises, I believe, is that it gives those of us who don't use Web 2.0 applications a chance to get our feet wet. It's like a like taking a week-long trip to Italy. After you return from your trip, you know more about Italy then you used to, but you certainly are no expert on Italy or the Italian people.
The real challenge will be using Web 2.0 tools to leverage library services. I haven't been actively searching through academic library web sites, but it's pretty clear that even the bigger (read better funded) academic library web sites are still firmly rooted in Web 1.0 concepts.
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