One Last Thing

Thank you to Hartford Public Library Learning 2.0 for all the new experiences. I learned to:

• make a wiki
• try Google's slideshow tool
• try other internet productivity tools (See Thing 18)
• find the best video ever about Web 2.0
• find a favorite funny library blog not written by the Annoyed Librarian and actually get it to feed into my blog so I can bask in reflected funniness
• bask in even more reflected funniness by linking here and here
• Start a library at LibraryThing (only 25 books so far...)
• Learn about tagging and flickr
• make a Librarian Trading Card
• start writing down all user names and passwords** in one book, always, no matter how convinced I am that I'll remember them. It's like Seinfeld's episode about rental cars... . You know. Anyone can MAKE the password. The important thing is to REMEMBER the password.

I did many favorite things. My most favorite was making a wiki on Wetpaint.

Unexpected outcomes: I've learned that on Web 2.0 we are experiencing a blooming EXPLOSION of human creativity.

The Learning 2.0 program has contributed to my lifelong learning goals by showing me how to use a rich selection of Web 2.0 resources. It pointed the way to even more lists of resources like this one: http://rameyerguam.blogspot.com/.

Thank you to Irene; Sandy; Mary; and everyone else who put together and ran this program. It was very, very worthwhile. If I hadn't been able to do some of this on work time I never would have discovered and learned as much as I did. Thank you!

The program was wonderful. Possible improvement might include extending the lab to a morning or two per week at the branches. It would also be great to add a group/team Thing to the to-do list.

I would definitely participate in another program like this in the future.

**The book cover was made by HPL blogger quietguy at http://web2assimilation.blogspot.com/

Note: I had written more about Web 2.0 and net neutrality but they made the post too long, so I put them here.