WHAT YOU CAN DO

 Here are 5 things you can do to learn more about the Web

1. Take a class or attend a workshop.

- Some you can learn by online. Some you need to be at in person. Find one that is right for you. If a formal class isn’t what you’re looking for, online tutorial sites that can help you learn most anything you want to know.

2. Create a Twitter and/or Facebook account for.

- control what you put out there. It’s not as scary of a place as many people make it out to be. Create your own profile, find some interesting people to follow and test out the waters. For me, Twitter and Facebook has been a nice way to connect with friends and colleagues.

3. Create a Twitter profile and/or Facebook fan page for something you’re interested in.

- Let’s say you already have a personal Twitter account or you don’t want to personally put yourself out there but you’d still like to learn about social networking a bit more. Take some sort of interest you have and create a Twitter or Facebook fan page. Web sites have profiles and fan pages. Find something you enjoy and create a social networking presence for it. It will help you test the waters and give you some ambiguity.

 

4. Start a blog.

- A great way to break into the online area is to start your own blog. There are quite a few journalism teachers out there with their own blogs.

5. Build a website.

- Finally, if you’re feeling really adventurous, build your own Web site. To learn, built your own a website and anything interest that can make you create inside your blog. Most aren’t using Dreamweaver, WordPress or Joomla to build the sites. Try building a site for your class or your friends and invite them to view your Web site. If you don’t want to build a site for your class, build one for some other interest you have. Either way, it will be an invaluable experience.

All of these are great ways to learn about the Web and all are great ways to help you online. The move and journey should be one about empowering and having them lead the charge, not follow you and what you’ve built. The first step that many of us need to take is to take the time to learn about things so we can be there for others.

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Take the time.

Learn something new.

Have a little fun in the process.

Reference - http://www.jeadigitalmedia.org/2010/05/24/5-ways-to-learn-without-taking-overcreating-your-students-site/