Exercise 23

Just the start .........

I am not saying goodbye to Learning 2.0, but as many other people have quoted 'this is just the beginning'. My eyes have been opened to what is out in the internet, the technology is incredible, the knowledge that can be gained is enormous and the hours of pleasure from the fun sites is just limitless.

I still do not know how many people will come into a library and ask us questions on these topics, but I feel that it has given me more areas of knowledge to understand and help. It has given me the confidence to now delve into the internet and investigate, play and learn.

It took me a long time to initially understand what was required in Learning 2.0 as I thought that the instructions were all over the place. But my first big step took me about three weeks - to set up your own blog and the first posting. Once I achieved that I found the whole process much easier and was able to keep up weekly, bearing in mind that I had dial-up at home, where 90% of the work was done.

As you can see from my blog, I really enjoy photography and find that very easy. Have a great digitial SLR which produces fantastic photos and enjoy gardening, embroidery and live music. Now this comes very naturally to me. Flickr, Flickr Fun, On-line image generator and Librarything were easy, interesting and fun.

Therefore, to me, Technorati was my least liked exercise. In fact, I nearly stopped blogging there as I had difficulty understanding how to place it on my blog. I have to thank all the blogs that I read that helped me over this stage.

Some of the information and knowledge gained from these exercises could be applied to the library and I could see courses being taught through blogs, YouTube, etc. Life in the future is going to be so very different from what it is like now. The differences between twenty years ago in a library and today is enormous. We are asked different information questions, borrowers use our internet site for the catalogue and on-line resources, renew their books, discover our current events and read the library blog. I was very disappointed that there was not more Australian content, especially LibraryThing.

What will be next in technology?

I have really enjoyed Learning 2.0. I really love having ADSL2+. When is the next course?