Thank you, Emerging Technologies Team! At my performance review this past winter, I listed learning about Library2.0 or Web2.0 as a goal for the coming year. Little did I know you were going to make that task so convenient and pleasurable. My plan was to do a little reading--a book, some articles in library lit or online and try to get a little familiar with the terminology. How much better this has been. Of course there have been frustrations; of course I've already forgotten some of the things I've learned--reviewing the lessons this morning had me wondering if I'd really done them all--and if so why I hadn't written an entry. Oh, yeah--blogging wasn't the week 1 assignment, duh. But, by and large I've learned so much--and even if I am now a bit or a MB behind on my regular off desk tasks, this learning tool was much more efficient that attending a conference or signing up for an off-site class.
As for a favorite week, it's hard to pick. The one I've used the most has to be the wiki assignment. We now have two library employees and two non-library employees using the wiki I created to plan Latin@ Voices. I'm hoping to have another five people included sometime soon, though I suspect they are a bit hesitant to use a tool they are not familiar with. I've sent them the link to the instructional video you provided us, so we'll see. I used the relaytor this morning to send out a survey to the folks who aren't using the wiki yet to try to nail down a date for Latin@ Voices. No response there yet either.
I haven't made much use of Flickr since I don't have a digital camera yet (that will be happening sometime soon since I can't find my old APS one), but I have checked a few times looking for photos of Cart Attack in this year's parade--and found one from 2005.
While I haven't used it yet, I was pleased Darcy accepted my suggestion to make the quarterly report a googledoc that we could all update as the quarter progressed. That should save her some time.
Saving time, however, is not the name of this social networking game as far as I'm concerned. Checking feeds, reviewing facebook accounts, writing blogs, uploading books to LibraryThing, and doing fun stuff like creating a "for dummies" cover are all consumers of large amounts of time. Meanwhile the reviewing, the gov docs, the weeding, the programming tasks pile up.
Nevertheless I would like to continue with semester two. And a thumb drive would be my preferred incentive.
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