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Nebraska Learns 2.0 is the Nebraska Library Commission’s ongoing online learning program. It is a self-discovery program which encourages participants to take control of their own learning and to utilize their lifelong learning skills through exploration and PLAY.

Each month, we offer you an opportunity to learn a new Thing (or lesson). You have all month to complete that Thing and receive one CE credit. You may choose which Things to do based on personal interest and time availability If the Thing of the month doesn’t interest you or if you are particularly busy that month, you can skip it.

* The Thing for May is: Free Play
Pick a technology tool that you already use but we haven’t covered in the previous 54 Things. I’m sure you’re using a mobile app or online tool that we at least haven’t already discussed. Better yet, I’m sure some of you are using tools that we’ve never even heard of.

* The BookThing for May is: “The Shallows” by Nicholas Carr

If you are new to Nebraska Learns 2.0, your first assignment is to sign up to participate at: http://nlcblogs.nebraska.gov/nelearns/sign-up-2/  This program is open to ALL Nebraska librarians, library staff, library friends, library board members and school media specialists.

We hope you’ll join your library colleagues in the fun as you learn about new and exciting technologies!

For those of you that participated in the 23 Things for Professional Development program last year you may be interested in knowing that the program recently won an award:

The cpd23 team are chuffed and honoured to have been awarded a ‘highly commended’ runner-up certificate in the inaugural Credo Reference Digital Award for Information Literacy, awarded yesterday evening at the Librarians Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC).

Additional details can be found on the 23 Things for Professional Development blog.

The Black Googler Network hosted Baratunde Thurston, Digital Editor of The Onion, Co-Founder of Jack & Jill Politics, and author of the recently released “How to Be Black”, for an entertaining talk on culture, politics, and technology.

Each year, the Nebraska Library Commission awards Continuing Education and Training Grants to Nebraska libraries to provide funding for staff to attend conferences and training sessions. In 2011, the NLC awarded grants to several librarians to attend the Public Library Association Conference in Philadelphia. Attend this session to learn more about the grants and to hear these librarians talk about their experiences at PLA.

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Carnegie Mellon University hosted Don Tapscott, thought-leader and author of Macrowikinomics, as a guest of The Innovators Forum.

An author, advisor and thinker, Tapscott is the leading authority on the impact of the digital revolution on business and society. The Huffington Post describes his bestselling book Macrowikinomics as providing a “game plan for all of us to fix a broken world.” With transformations across the web, information technology and mass collaboration, we are all part of a new generation of interconnected individuals who want to shape the world they live in.

The Innovators Forum is an exciting new series connecting the world’s top innovative minds with the university community.

For more, visit: http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/society/2012/winter/macrowikinomics.shtml

Nebraska Learns 2.0 (http://nlcblogs.nebraska.gov/nelearns/) is the Nebraska Library Commission’s ongoing online learning program. It is a self-discovery program which encourages participants to take control of their own learning and to utilize their lifelong learning skills through exploration and PLAY.

Each month, we offer you an opportunity to learn a new Thing (or lesson). You have all month to complete that Thing and receive one CE credit. You may choose which Things to do based on personal interest and time availability. If the Thing of the month doesn’t interest you or if you are particularly busy that month, you can skip it.

* The Thing for March is: Visualize Your Resume – http://nlcblogs.nebraska.gov/nelearns/2012/03/01/thing-53-visualize-your-resume/

Let’s just all admit this up front and get it out of the way: resumes are boring! Ok, moving on…So, what can we do about it? This month’s thing takes a look at two online services that allow you to create a visual and interactive online resume. Granted they may not work for every situation, but I think you’ll agree, they’re not boring.

Another facet of Nebraska Learns 2.0 is BookThing. Each month we pick a single title that we feel has relevance to librarianship and/or information theory. Some of the titles will be very obviously related, while others may not seem so on the surface but there is a connection. Your assignment will be to read the book and create a blog post answering some questions about the title.

* The BookThing for March is: “The Information Diet” by Clay A. Johnson: http://nlcblogs.nebraska.gov/nelearns/2012/03/01/bookthing-the-information-diet/

If you are new to Nebraska Learns 2.0, your first assignment is to sign up to participate at: http://nlcblogs.nebraska.gov/nelearns/sign-up-2/ This program is open to ALL Nebraska librarians, library staff, library friends, library board members and school media specialists.

We hope you’ll join your library colleagues in the fun as you learn about new and exciting technologies!