Finis

Can you believe it?! I actually made it all the way through Learning 2.0.

I've gained a lot of new knowledge in this process and my horizons--if not the bandwidth I have access to--have been broadened greatly. I do wonder if libraries that regularly use podcasts, vidcasts, blogs, wikis (etc.) have a better computer response time than we do.

For me some of the Discovery exercises in the Things could have been simplified. Then I think I would have gotten less bogged down in the preliminary reading and understanding of each concept or tool. But maybe that's just me... Most VBPL people just whizzed right through, so I'm willing to chalk up my difficulties to 'dinosaurism'--the fact that I'm old as dirt and technology sometimes flummoxes me.

CERTAINLY I would take part in a program like Learning 2.0 again. It's a great means of continuing education. I know that some schools with outreach programs have peer or 'cohort' groups of students who sort of mentor each other through the educational process. I was fortunate enough to have several dear and knowledgeable friends form a cohort "shield" around me while I worked my way through Learning 2.0. So to Dorcus and Delilah--all my thanks.