What was my favorite discovery....hmmmm, I had made a blog but had never subscribed to RSS. One could be at their computer 24/7 trying to keep up with what they'd subscribed to. And I had been to YOuTube and Facebook and played with Myfamily.com. I liked playing with LibraryThing. I had been to the site but had not actually started entering my own home collection. I showed it to a couple of local churches that have small libraries of resources. I learned the most on the tagging and social bookmarking. I hadn't known much about Del.icio.us. We have a lot of favorite help websites at the library and now we need to use tags and organize them. I want to do some book review podcasts...or I was thinking of using my movie camera to do live book reviews of the kids this summer and then post them on a library book review blog. And I thought I knew about wikis, but I have a much better understanding now. In fact, I think we are really going to use this one first. We had been going to make some additional webpages for some ongoing information spots...community education and a family resource center. I think we want wikis so all the collaborators can enter their own information. Although the first wiki, I think will be a one-stop Richland County. I was just at a community planning event on Friday and many people wanted one place to go for all kinds of information...kids summer recreation, any county education and training, organizations, etc.
I really liked the hands on. And I liked the time to do and play with each lesson. I liked the links to the webcast that taught the lesson and all the examples really helped. Yes, I would take a class like this again. Sometimes I ran into difficulty so it was good I had other staff that was taking the class., We could figure things out together. And I should have taken the trainers up on their help. I am not sure what could make it better....finding TIME. Or being able to have one of the trainers on staff (:
Lifelong learning is just that....I am going to be doing it the rest of my life....it did exercise my brain which will continue to keep me young!
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