Well, it's been fun; I really mean that! I have enjoyed learning the tools of Library/Web 2.0. The focus of Web 2.0 is the community and sharing (everything from the "social" Delicious to sharing links in Twitter).
My whole concept of learning was changed. My son used to call me a "Luddite" because I had an aversion to technology. I sent him my blog URL after about ten posts, and he commented "my world has turned upside down!". My world altered dramatically, too: I deleted "I can't" and "I won't" from my vocabulary and used instead "I'll try". After I've tried it, I can choose to use it or not.
Granted, there were a few mishaps, but the computer and/or my head didn't explode. Just don't ask me to retrace my steps, because I took many circuitous routes (although if asked, I'm sure someone at Google could trace my steps). I'll probably forget some things anyway (passwords included) or the tools will change; but at least I learned how to learn on the computer and how to be a little more patient (remember the slower, earlier days of computers when a patron or I would impatiently press the print key too many times and get 20 copies?).
As I said earlier, some of the 27Things will be ongoing. Just when I thought I was almost done, I read an article about Web 3.0 (I'm not done with 2.0 yet!) which gave examples like iGoogle. I googled "iGoogle", and believe it or not, my own iGoogle page was ready for fine-tuning at Google. I have already replaced Bloglines with the Google reader; next I want to try Google Documents instead of Zoho. And then there is Facebook to consider to get access to friends' photos... There really isn't a finish line, is there?
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I'm honestly surprised social networking of some sort wasn't listed in 27Things. An egregious oversight compared to some of what is.
ReplyDeleteThe good news about web3 is that no one even knows what it is yet, beyond neat buzzwords like "semantic web" which most people can't even pretend to define.
Choosing is good. There are SO many web2.0 things out there, that if you tried to incorporate them all in to you daily life, you'd be a slave to the screen.
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