This represents the new era for me. It redefines privacy as I know it. I have to get used to a new understanding of privacy with my children using these tools. They are wonderful to share and yet they are so dangerous, especially YouTube.
I have looked at YouTube and have a love/hate relationship with it. My first instinct is skepticism. My second one is that I have to deal with it since it is part of the communication world that we live in. Podcasts are sometimes underrated since we are used to having everything presented with pictures. I love the netlibrary and have downloaded a book but it is not part of my daily reading habit yet.
The 23 Things - Learning 2.0 has become a guiding light to librarians entering the 'new era' of technology and how it reshapes the library world. It has been helpful to have had a structured approach to these tools. The problem I see with this program is that it is most useful when training can occur in a classroom setting where sharing with others is possible. To have to work with this by myself in a time slot that can be interrupted at any time and is very restricted, has been a challenge and does not give this opportunity justice. My recommendation: make this tool available at the same time every day and have computers designated for it in your workplace until the training is completed. Let people meet in this temporary space and give them the chance to talk about it and exchange experiences and ideas in order to grow into the expert that this tool wants us to become.
I have looked at YouTube and have a love/hate relationship with it. My first instinct is skepticism. My second one is that I have to deal with it since it is part of the communication world that we live in. Podcasts are sometimes underrated since we are used to having everything presented with pictures. I love the netlibrary and have downloaded a book but it is not part of my daily reading habit yet.
The 23 Things - Learning 2.0 has become a guiding light to librarians entering the 'new era' of technology and how it reshapes the library world. It has been helpful to have had a structured approach to these tools. The problem I see with this program is that it is most useful when training can occur in a classroom setting where sharing with others is possible. To have to work with this by myself in a time slot that can be interrupted at any time and is very restricted, has been a challenge and does not give this opportunity justice. My recommendation: make this tool available at the same time every day and have computers designated for it in your workplace until the training is completed. Let people meet in this temporary space and give them the chance to talk about it and exchange experiences and ideas in order to grow into the expert that this tool wants us to become.
