Welcome

VB Learning is an online program designed to encourage City of Virginia Beach employees to experience prevalent and emerging web-based technologies. Referred to collectively as web 2.0, these technology encompass a wide range of tools and activities that enhance creativity, information sharing and collaboration among users.

Many of these web-based tools are both applications and services. They are changing the ways in which people, business and society accesses information and communicates with each other.

The content for this online learning and discovery program will be posted to this blog over the course of twelve weeks, beginning the week of August 31 and ending the week of November 2, 2009.

Participants will…
READ each blog post.
THINK about the information contained in the “Learn More Resources”.
LEARN through completing the hands-on activities.
DO more in their professional and personal lives with increased awareness, knowledge and skill.

For participants, these activities represent a total weekly time commitment of 30 to 50 minutes. The VB Learning blog will highlight the following web-based technologies:

Week 1 - Blogs & Microblogs
Week 2 - RSS
Week 3 - Wikis
Week 4 - Instant Messaging
Week 5 - Multimedia
Week 6 - Tagging & Bookmarking
Week 7 - Web Widgets and Gadgets
Week 8 - Social Networking
Week 9 - Avatars & Virtual Worlds
Week 10 - Aggregators
Week 11 - Managing Your Online Identity
Week 12 - Web 2.0