Learn and Play, my techno garden, has been as fruitful as my vegtable garden. Oh the things I learned along the way.
The first four or five steps where under the watchful eye of a mentor. As I completed each of those first steps, I wasn’t sure I was learning anything. But when I finally became an independent learner, the progress was remarkable.
Not that there weren’t challenging moments. For example, most of my learning was through CMLsi Remote. So I missed all those little videos of staff in Learn and Play….they were just black boxes on my home computer. Also, about three quarters of the way through, I discovered I had been recording my Progress Tracking in the wrong format. I was not linking them to individual blog postings. I’ve gone back and modified them all; I just hope I now have them correct so that I can recieve acknowledgement of completion and a Flash Drive…..if not, well, another lesson learned. I’ve gotten good at “copy” and “paste” of the URLs, but have noticed that they always “paste” with some duplication in the middle which I then delete.
Some of my new learning I will continue to use; MOLDI, delicous, podcasts. Some did not interest me right now; particularly Twitter. I have watched the Twitter Adicted in action and know it is very important for some staff already. Perhaps I will have a need for it in my future.
The program overall deserves great credit. I now know a little about quite a bit more than I ever dreamed. Imagine my surprise when I was able to introduce to one of my kids a cool product such as Image Generator! It may be the only moment when I was one step ahead of a “native” to these tools.
While not very wordy in my blog use, I have come to a degree of comfort with it, and intend to continue blogging into the future. It is a great way to share news/photos with family far and wide. In fact, I think during the next Extended Family Reunion, I will suggest that we all share our blog sites with each other.
Thank You so much, CML, for giving us the opportunity to learn a bit more about Learning 2.0. It has given many staff a window into how we can assist our customers in new ways, as we continue to enjoy our Learning Harvest.
Gratefuuly, Ohiogardener.
