#23 (Week 9) It is soooo NOT Week 9!

Well, I must admit there were times when I wondered if I would ever reach #23, but the trip has been such a wonderful experience, and here I finally am, just in time for tomorrow's class.

I hope I understand the directions for the final activity, and I want to complete this activity with something I mentioned way back in Week #6 when I found "A Letter to Teachers about Learning." In his blog Chris said he had modified the 23 Things for his school's particular situation. I provided the URL below, and the first thing I noticed upon re-visiting this site is the disclaimer stating that "Betchablog is licensed under a Creative Commons License."

http://betch.edublogs.org/2008/05/21/a-letter-to-teachers-about-learning/

Creative Commons will be one of the most valuable things I've discovered in this class, as I continue to "preach" about copyright every chance I get.

I learned so much from each of the 23 Things, and I definitely will find (or make) time to participate in 2.1 in the future. Until this course I knew nothing about new technologies such as photosharing sites, blogs, and wikis. I am very serious about creating a Bluebonnet blog, and I can see the benefit of wikis when a group of people need to collaborate on a project, but are unable to meet face-to-face. Regarding unexpected discoveries, almost everything I delved into provided new things for me to ponder and consider. I fell in love with LibraryThing, and I am fascinated by the blogs from other librarians. I could not make one suggestion on improving this course, but I would encourage someone planning to take this course to allot plenty of time because I genuinely believe the adage about getting out of something what you put into it, and I probably spent loads more time than necessary exploring, but that is how I work and that is how I got my brain wrapped around all the new stuff.

In summing up this experience, I am having trouble deciding between FANTASTIC and BENEFICIAL as one word descriptors. To use a sentence to describe this course, let me just say, "School Library Learning 2.0 has taught me about new technology before I even knew what questions I should be asking!" The information was priceless, and it is beyond amazing that this course cost me nothing besides my time.

Let me conclude by again thanking Shirley and Jen for your supervision and assistance!