Thing #23: THE END! Reflections on Learning 2.0

I cannot believe I made it to the end! I must confess that there were a few times that I truly despaired of finishing this. I don't like to start things and not finish them, though, and so I persevered. I must say I'm pretty proud of myself! It was difficult to find the time to do this at work, and so I ended up completing much of it at home on my own time. I was very glad I could access it from home.

I found most of the exercises useful. It is good to learn new things. I don't think I have mastered the applications we learned about through the exercises, but I certainly at least got an introduction to some things I did not know much about. Just creating the blog was something I had never done before. Additionally, I found the explorations of wikis, YouTube, podcasts, audiobooks, GoogleDocs, and RSS to be helpful.

I would have liked to know the deadline from the outset. Somehow, I did not know there was a deadline, and then I freaked out when I realized I was only halfway done and had a short amount of time to finish. I found it difficult when I got stuck on something, and I did not really have anyone who was accessible to "unstick" me. Since I'm still pretty new here, I don't know the people too well who maybe could have helped me. This resulted in the project being shoved onto the back burner a couple of times.

I probably would participate in another such experience, because it is good to keep abreast of new things. However, I think it would be helpful if there were fewer, shorter exercises so that the end would be more easily in view. If more people were available to help when you get stuck, that would of course be great, too. If it could be available to staff from the outset on the city computers, that would help, too. I wasted a lot of time when I had to use library computers--because I never could find the time to go and use them, or I would get caught up in helping someone with something, or whatever.