you know....

Yes, I still would I'm afraid!
Thank you Karen, Kathy and Hantie for all the huge amount of work you put into this programme and I know many people got alot of fun and learning from it.
Thank you Karen especially for your relentlessly positive attitude and encouragement for those of us who would rather be reading!
I must say in the end dragging my feet somewhat was to my advantage as I learnt some good tips and shortcuts from other people who cheerfully shared their learnings including the tip to start at exercise 22 and work backwards! (hmm... working from both ends to the middle made a weird kind of sense and seemed to go faster - go figure)
My most important learning was a sad one - I'm still a very impatient person! But I must say that I'm finding using image generators alot of fun and I can see myself getting creative with birthday cards and teamday agendas in the future. I might even youtube some more pandas.

exercise #7.2

Went into the readers club New Review feeds and tried downloading the feeds to some of the review categories. Everyone of them came back with " page cannot be displayed. Clicked on "unshelved" and followed the process to get the rss feed. When I went into my bloglines account it wasn't there, however, I then did it from my bloglines account and it worked perfectly.
I think I would prefer to add rss feeds from within my Bloglines, rather than going to other sites and sending the links to bloglines. I find it quicker to go into bloglines and then go through the search tool within it to the specific sites that I would want to subscribe to, rather than having to browse a lot of options and then choose a site and the feed.

exercise #7.1

http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs

I am interested in books and news so these are the feeds I chose. This could be very useful if I was disciplined enough to check in to them a couple of times a day. I could see this being useful if a bloglines account was created on the information desk in the library and checked for latest news and reviews regularly. I know a staff member who subscribes to the Unsleved cartoon feed and puts selected ones up on the back of the staff toilet door!

exercise# 8

Had a look at the Social networking book mark and went into Voicethreads. Some of the notes summarized the content which could be useful - some made no sense whatsoever, another language altogether! Some of the tags were Americanlibraryassociation, avatars, networking and pageflakes.
I couldn't imagine why I would ever want to go into this site, but then I'm not into exploring this sort of thing anyway. I wonder would you not find Synkron if you googled it? Tried it and sure enough it took me to the exact site. I went back to synkron on Del.icio.us and followed a few links to users but they just seemed to take me to more and more lists.

exercise #9

Working ass backward so this one a little more difficult - should have done #8 first.
Very mixed results with the searches in blog directory and blog posts - some seemed to have little to do with the search.
What a messy site - way too much on each page, very slow to navigate around. It seems that search results are only going to be as good as the tags that people have put ontheir blogs. - I guess the librarian in me wants something more structured.
Got a result of 1257 blogs about learning 2.0 - initial reaction was good grief it's taking enough time to work through it without bothering to blog about it!
Don't think I'll tag my posts - this is all giving me rather a creepy feeling of understanding about how kids can be preyed upon.

exercise #10

Had a quick read of most of these. The one that really struck a chord was Michael Stephens "into a new world of Librarianship" with a series of statements he publishes his intent to use web 2.0 to enhance the library experience for his users by engaging them in the whole process. I was also very impressed by the statement below which I think illustrates the importance of not getting technology for technology's sake.

"Librarian 2.0 controls technolust This librarian does not buy technology for the sake of technology. “Techno-worship” does not exist here. Without a firm foundation in the mission and goals of the institution, new technologies are not implemented for the sake of coolness and status. Technology is put to the test: Does it meet the users need in a new or improved way? Does it create a useful service for putting users together with the information and experience they seek? These are some of the questions this librarian asks when planning for technology. This librarian creates and nurtures a living, breathing technology plan."

Roll on our web person and being able to engage our customers in all aspects of our library service. I hope my new knowledge of what's possible will help the decision and vision making process.

exercise #11

Book lovers wiki is quite a good set up - quite an attractive site. The staff reviews looked well managed - just a fairly short paragraph about the book. Library Success was pretty boring - standard wiki format - an inhouse tool maybe? A good way to store training notes, instructions and other types of information you would normally put into a manual for staff.