Thursday, August 16, 2007

The end of the road

This post is my last official one for the Learning 2.0 program, and so I'm going to give you a list of things I learned.
  1. It's a lot easier to write a blog than I thought. I was afraid of clamming up in front of a large audience, but I didn't, and I think I was able to find a fairly consistent voice. On the other hand....
  2. It's a lot harder to get people to read and comment on your blog than I thought. I don't know who in the library has actually been reading this, but the comments have been few and far between. Even worse, I've tried to tell my friends outside of the library that I have a blog now that they could read, and the response has been a big yawn. My visions of wealth and fame as a celebrity blogger have not come to pass.
  3. Not every technology is for everyone. Some people are just resistant to certain ideas, like me with the podcasts (see below). And I think some of my co-workers have the idea that they're being expected to love all 23 of these things. I don't really think that was the point of this exercise; instead it was just to familiarize ourselves with these concepts. I have a co-worker who still hates Facebook, but at least now he can give a convincing argument about his reasons for that opinion, and so the exercise was a success in my opinion.
  4. RSS feeds are much cooler than I ever thought. I was resistant to that idea, but now I check my Bloglines account every morning, and it really does save me a lot of pointless surfing during the day.
  5. People are surprisingly motivated by the chance to win prizes. I'll have to remember that next time a teach an English 151 class.
  6. It's really easy to make a list in Blogger!

1 comment:

  1. Just posting to let you know that someone is reading. Your post stumbled into my RSS feeds for "learning 2.0" so I thought I'd say hi.

    BTW: You're so right about #3, the objective was merely about exposure to tools and concepts. period.

    Congrats on completing the program.

    Helene
    LibraryBytes.com

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