Tuesday, August 5, 2008

It's a Wrap - yum, I'll take Chicken!

I just erased my whole post, and it was great, and poetic and beautiful, and it's all gone! #@(^. Now you'll have to take what ever I can remember ...

It's been great working through this set of lessons. I think it has dragged us out of our comfortable armchairs, where we held our books and flipped the pages by hand ...

Not that I fear ever losing the "book experience". We used to worry about that (remember reading about Vannevar Bush?), but now we see this is about connections, and joining in with the race as it undergoes a social facelift.

I hope to use the flickr - my favorite site by far - and facebook, myspace and LT at a minimum. I can see YouTube also for library applications, and work/personal applications like poetry readings, which makes me think the process will probably blur the line for all of us.

Leaf falls, page turns, book opens ... we are seeing ourselves as part of a growing, protean organism - the world - and we are gestating. If we feed ourselves well, we will find a thousand ways to be born for our patrons and our communities, and ... our selves.

I will sign up for the second session. I think the process was great. I would only suggest, speak up on the podcasts a bit more. And I suggest putting more specific instructions for some of the sites, so we don't have to search for hours to find what we need.

Thanks for allowing me to take part in this process of building our future history.

For my incentive I choose the iTunes gift certificate for $25.

Looking forward to the second set of lessons!

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