Options for the afternoon

This afternoon I'm keen for us to have the chance to take things that we've found worthwhile for our own classes (or our own lives) and have a go at setting them up for ourselves!

Here's some examples of activities to choose from:

• Setting up your own email group. We'll create a group and add own email addresses so that we can test it out and have it ready to use in class. Or you could even create a group for your year in highschool, or another group of people that you email regularly.
  
• Setting up a blog for class - including linking student blogs to your class blog, and customising the template a bit. If you haven't used a blog much before, then I'd recommend that you first focus on blogging yourself. You could start by writing a post about your experience today!
• Setting up a Basecamp project for you class. Again, I'd recommend creating a one for a home project of your own first so you can have some fun with it first... why not plan that next holiday, or just get your home maintenence todos done!
• Setting up your own Wikispace. Start creating your first wiki-resource for use in class next week. This'll be an activity that even your students can update and improve!
• Setting up your own Bloglines account. Keep up with your students' blogs with ease as well as professional journals from your own area of expertise.

If you're already familiar with the above, or don't find them that interesting, then here's a few more options:

• Create a Google Calendar for your class that you can share with your students. While you're there, why not create a calendar for your own private life that you can share with just your own family members?!
• Setup a del.icio.us account and start adding all your bookmarks so that you can access them from everywhere.
  
• Finding a Librivox recording for use in your next literature class (or just for your own listening pleasure). Why not even volunteer to record a few chapters of a book that you love?!
• Experience Ubuntu Linux on your own computer!
  

I'm hoping that there'll be a few sub-groups who are keen to work on the same activity, so that we can work together and help each other as we go.

Once you've decide on your first activity, make sure you add it to our BaseCamp Todo list so that I can see who's doing what (OK, so it's really just to practise your BaseCamp skills).