Thing 23 - Is it Really Over?

Amazing...
Educational...
Enlightening...

All good words to describe this experience. If another course like this was offered, I would be there in a heartbeat. I like the idea of posting my blog in the signature of my e-mail. I do think that others might find it interesting to see what I have learned. Or even better, make it my school media blog.

I can't think of a way that this program could be improved. The directions for everything were superb. The activities were appropriate. The outcome was fabulous. I just hope I can keep up with it all before we have Web/Library 3.0!

I am really going to try and find ways to incorporate some of these things into my teaching. I am not sure how yet, but I want my students to have the same enthusiasm for this that I do.

I have so much new knowledge and technical vocabulary that I did not have before. And I have so many new ideas to try.

I will look forward to hearing how everyone that did the entire program felt about it. It would be great to see some of the feedback.

Signing off for now...
But not forever...

Thing 22 - Adding an RSS Feed

I added Doug Johnson's blog to my page. There are always interesting things to read there and having it on my blog will remind me to check there every so often. And perhaps it will direct others to his site. Always good food for thought.

Thing 22 - How to Keep Up

I have learned a lot!!

I think it is easy to say that we don't have enough time to do these new things. It really is a fact that we need to take the time. I spoke to that way back on Thing 2 with Stephen Abrams. I need to take the time to perfect my skills.

Web 2.0 is an exciting adventure. My biggest hope is that I can share what I have learned with others and show them the exciting world out there. Many people are afraid of trying new technologies and it can be frustrating.

We all need to keep trying in order to keep up with our students and/or the public.

I am going to "borrow" these words from the 23 Things Blog of instructions. I want these words on my blog so I can refer easily to them. In order to continue my education with technology I know:

It really doesn’t take that much time
I know I can do it
It's fun to know and use these tools
I need to keep informed
I need the support of others and our administrators and supervisors so we have the time and help we need to learn and stay informed.

I am going to keep up my blog. I resolve to do that. I think this blog can be useful place for me to share with others and just as my own personal journal.

This opportunity has been amazing. Plus I have had a chance to chat with some old friends in the program. As I learn new things, I will rite about it here.

A huge thank you to all the people that put this program together. I know it was a lot of work, but I think it has strengthened our community of library learners.

Thing 21 - Other Social Networks

I took a look at a few other social network sites. I just can't see myself getting involved in them. I could maybe see it for our library/media department. However, we are all so busy with our teaching and our own home lives, that I can't see anyone getting excited to use it. But for those that need that for communication and information, it is great.

I did look at the teacher/librarian one. That did have some people I knew on it and I could see the use for it. It seems like the next step up from LM Net.

Thing 20 - Facebook - Addendum

I must be OK, because my 15 year old daughter asked me to be her friend on Facebook. It must not be too embarrassing for her to have a mom for a friend. To me that is way cool!

Thing 21 - 23 Things Ning

I had already done the activities for the ning. I was the 9th person to join the ning way back when this all started. I guess I was ahead of my time. :)

I have left messages for others and have received messages back. I uploaded my picture. I uploaded a widget. The more I do these "things" on my blog the easier it becomes.

I again don't see me using this very often as I don't really want to use the computer to communicate this way. But I do prefer to use this avenue as opposed to MySpace of Facebook as this network is all library people. It would be fun to keep up the connections I have made so far as I did find old friends and colleagues here.