Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Easy as falling off a Blog

LEARNING IS EASY because the mind is always receptive to new experience. When the gate is opened the little lamb will jump for joy.

The easiest of the 71/2 habits for me is Play. My inner curiousity is in direct proportion to my inner curiousness. That may be irrelevant. Or not, if my aim is to describe my personal traits in order to contact like-minded souls through Chats and the like.

The hardest habit would probably be 'seeing problems as challenges'. When I find a problem in my path - usually technological - I get annoyed that someone else hasn't fixed it. It's always someone else's fault, never mine of course, how could it be? An example: at the beginning of this learning venture I was instructed to listen to a podcast by clicking on an icon. The thing played for a few words and then went silent for a number of seconds, and continuing on in the same way. How annoying is that? Unlistenable. Not my fault I'm sure. Couldn't they even get that right? - - That's how I react - it's hard to see these kinds of design faults as challenges.

Take a deep breath...

Blogalong

My aim is to learn to use social networking technologies that will enable me to assist library users.

How do we make contact and interact with others who are on similar or related paths of learning? I have heard of Forums, Blogs, Chats, Discussion groups, and online social networks, and I am hoping to learn more about their use.