Last Assignment

Well, now that I've survived Thanksgiving it is time to buckle down and get the last assignment of semester one under my belt (and off my to-do list). This has been terrific learning experience. I would be hard pressed to come up with which week was my favorite. If pushed, I would have to say the week this blog was created because this blog has been like a holiday tree (Okay.Enough with this political correctness. You know which holiday I'm talking about so let's just call a Christmas tree a Christmas tree shall we?) off of which all these other shiny bright things have been hung. The blog let us send our hypothetical readers to other cool things like Flickr and Survey Monkey. The blog also acted like an anchor. We grew familiar with how it worked and could add pieces as we went to dress it up but we could always come back to something we understood. I had the most fun with Flickr when I did the Nancy Perl tour of the library slide show. I think the process that has been used for semester one has been most excellent. I know there are weeks when I feel overwhelmed by my day job and getting to the week's assignment just seems like one more thing, but stretching out assignments over too long a period would let me totally forget to do them. So I think the pacing is right on. I also like that participants have been asked to reflect on what they are learning and apply it to their local situation. From what I understand about adult education, this is precisely how it should be done. Theoretical with concrete applications really strengthen learning. Any day now I will be attaching this blog to the library's web page and taking it public. I have been talking to staff about some of the cool things I've learned and we have thought of about a gazillion cool things to do. Not that these things will happen quickly, but just knowing what the possibilities are frees the mind and makes it more flexible. This has been fun !!!!!!! I've really enjoyed myself and learning new things on a weekly basis. I have every intention of signing up for 2nd semester and playing even harder!