Week 10 # 23 Is this really the end?

I have several comments to make.
1. 10 hours is WAY WAY too little for the actual amount of time spent on this. I suppose if you already know /or are familiar with the materials, 20 hours may be just right, but for many of us, especially us technophobes and NeoLuddites, it is not enough.

2. Starting with the blog is good, since with all the use I feel fairly comfortable with it. However there has been so much thrown at us in such a short time
with so little instruction, that most of what I have been exposed to is one
amorphous mass. I have e-mails, websites, memberships, passwords to who
knows what, and have very little idea of what password goes with which
program.

3. Given how busy we are, the items should be spread out over a year. Begin with the blog for about 2-3 weeks since it is the basis for reporting progress. Then Wiki, since that and Flickr are the two most likely to be used at the library. Give them about a month each.

4. Each topic should have a step by step detailed guide either printable or downloadable (many of us are linear thinkers and "just find someone on staff who knows to help you" doesn't cut it, especially if most of the staff aren't particularly interested in technology.) Spending 4 hours on a Friday morning (a busy catch-up day) after having spent several frustrating hours during the week trying to work the exercises isn't too helpful.

5. Take the oportunity to make more meaningful exercises other than just signing up for whatever program is this week's topic. Using the program several times over a period of time will make the information stick better.

Blogging isn't as bad as I thought, although since I have never been one to write a diary I don't see myself blogging. I will have to use Wiki and possibly Flickr although I don't use a real camera well, much less one of these electronic gizzies. The Avatar was fun. I always wanted to be a red-head. If I ever get a computer, Library Thing would be fun (and useful) I could spend my whole retirement organizing my books. The word processing deal might be useful too. As for the rest, I'll probably never use it.

As member of the Tribe of the Book, firmly planted in the 20th if not the 19th century, I am not impressed with 2.0. Perhaps 2.0 enthusiats might do well to meditate on the recent computer soap opera (death followed by amnesia) before they write off (can they write?) low tech solutions. I'll do what I must, but the book will outlast me.

I do not have Life Long Learning Goals. I learn what I must to survive. I learn what I am interested in for joy. Goals do nothing but kill the joy.