Thing 23: Final Thoughts

I'm DONE!!!! Honestly I really enjoyed learning about everything on 23 Things. This is a great program and I hope everyone continues with it. Thank you to whoever created the program, I learned a lot and will continue to learn more about these tools and programs. I finally have an account with Facebook, so I feel like I am Mrs. Technology.

Thing 22: What did I learn today?

Participating in the 23 things has been great! I have learned so much new information and I know it is going to make a better librarian. I have already used some of the knowledge to help patrons. There are certain things that I feel I need to go back and look at again, retry and become more familiar with. There are the tools that I will be using often like, LibraryThing, Youtube, Facebook, and Del.icio.us.

I will definitely try to keep up with my blog, especially if I go back and retry some of the steps, I will have to keep of what I have learned again and what I have forgotten. All in all it has been a great experience. Thanks!

Thing 21: Beyond MySpace: Other Social Networks

I actually have been a member to WebJunction for awhile. I joined after going to a meeting at work, where, we had representatives from WebJunction come a talk to us about their website and ways for us to improve our communication with English Language Leaner patrons. I receive e-mails with updated information to their website and I think it has very valuable information. Out of the three listed it is my favorite social network related to working in a library.

Thing 20: Facebook

So, I have been meaning to join either Facebook or MySpace for a while and never got around to it so I was glad to see this was one of the 23 things. I joined Facebook and found a lot of family and friends to become friends with already. Even though I feel many children can get themselves into trouble with these sites I can see why so many people use them. I found people I graduated with in high school just like that. I have a lot of information and pictures to download to it yet and many groups to join and friends to make but this is definitely one tool that I will be using after the 23 things is over.

Thing 19: Podcasts

I joined podcast.com and tried listening to a podcast about teaching and quite frankly it was really boring. I also tried listening to on about parenting but they could never find the rss connection. I don't know, maybe I would use this tool but to be honest I just am really not interested in it. I can only listen to and hear other peoples advice and opinions for so long and then I just want to pull my hair out.