The 23 things have been one wild ride!
This has been like riding a really big roller coaster.I have really enjoyed the 23 things most of the time, at other times it has been very frustrating & I felt like I would never make progress on some of the tasks. some points have been like the straight parts of the coaster where you have to work to build up some momentum. There have been a couple of times that I thought that I would plummet into the ground.
There have been ups & downs along the way. The high points of this project that I will contine to use and explore are the Google Tools & online productivity tools. I love the idea of having access to my work from any computer & not having to have a disk or flash drive with me. I think that this will be a great tool for students productivity. I really enjoyed Library Thing. I want to go back to it & enter all the info on all of my books. I plan to branch out try a few suggestions. I will be interested to see if they are a good match. I have to say that my abousolute high point was Animoto. I really loved doing that task. You look so totally impressive to everyone when you show that off. The online image generators & mashups were lots of fun too. I know that I will use these to create fun images to use in my marketing of the library. I would have to say that social networking, tagging, & podcasts are going to have to build some momentum & I will have to put work into those, eventually they will grow on me. My plummet into the ground moment has been flikr. It has given me huge grief.
When I began the "ride" of librarianship, the bottom tag under my email stated "The library...More than books". This adventure of 23 things has show that to be abundantly obvious. In the digital age it is so much more than helping kids find books & become readers. It's about finding the information that will help them succeed. They need to leave us knowing where & how to conduct that search.
I wanted to find a photo or video to illustrate this experience in a vivid way. Ignore the fact that this is an ad. Put yourself in the position of little old Six Flags man and you will make the emotional connection. At least I hope that you will.
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That is TOO FUNNY! The fainting at the end says it all! That's you! Have you revived yourself yet?
Way to go! You did it! Your final post was so thoughtful and I loved the analogy to the roller coaster. That seemed to describe my experience as well. Congrats!
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You're right. It was definitely a roller coaster ride doing the 23 things. Great analogy!
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