Library 2.0 Reflections

Okay, so this may be the most difficult activity. How to summarize my thoughts on something that will likely continue for years to come?

Or, at least, I hope it does. Not necessarily in a formalized project such as we are just finishing, but informally in our day-to-day relationship with the Internet which, like it or not, seems to be here to stay; not being intimidated to try out the new things that are popping up every day; not avoiding a new and possibly useful application just because it means yet another username and password.

I think my favourite discovery has been Google docs and spreadsheets. But close second and third are definitely finding out how easy it is to create blogs and wikis. I plan to continue to make use of most of the tools we have learned about. Many I had scratched the surface of but I am grateful to the Library 2.0 project for encouraging me to learn more about them and really think about how I can put them to use to make my online life easier.

I would really like to see this project continue. Maybe we can have a "2.0 Activity of the Month" and give everyone a month to discover each activity. We would have discovered 12 new things in a year. Not as wonderful as 23 things in 9 weeks but still significant and we would have room left in our lives to discover the dozens of other lifelong learning opportunities that await that don't require a keyboard ; )