Thing #23.....Finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. My favorite exercises involved the various sites that allowed you to play with images. I had a great time decorating my blog. I guess the best discovery I made was how to create a link using the link icon. I'd been ignorant about that little piece of chain and what function it performed until now.

2. How has this program affected my lifelong learning goals? I guess it's made me more aware of not only what's out there on the Internet, but given me a better sense of what might be coming along down the pike. Which is...just about anything! I think it's gotten my radar into a long-range scan mode now.

3. I guess the biggest take-away has to do with flickr and the generators. I discovered how easy it is to use flickr and image-related generators. I've opened my own flickr account and posted the pics from my recent trip to Rome. Unfortunately, unless I pay money, I am limited in the number of photos I can post per month. Ah, well. I'll just wait until September. And October.

4. As far as improving the program, I would ask the designers to do a little more demographic research before cobbling together another program like this. Customers vary from region to region. Where I work, basically none of the 23 Things will help me when dealing with folks who walk through the door. I would like to see a program that has been tailored to fit the population a given library system serves. The ways in which a population thinks, works, and lives influence how the Internet gets used. Based on that influence, I would like to see a program that outlines a population's web needs and suggests how we can, as librarians, meet those needs using the Internet tools that are out there.

5. I was not offered a choice. Participation was mandatory. If another program was "offered" I would participate if I thought the content was relevant to my job.

6. I don't know that I have any words to help promote the program. The time needed to complete the program took me away from other duties that were more pressing. Various "things" were frustrating to complete and left me with a sense of irritation rather than accomplishment.