Working with technology
I have a love/hate relationship with technology. The love part encompasses all good things related to technology such as email, social networks, instant messaging, and now, blogging, rss, and wikis.
The hate part is what I am experiencing now which is how slow I am in acquiring the technical abilities and skills necessary to participate in wiki and blogging technology. For instance, I am learning three techie things this semester: 1. How to blog 2. How to podcast 3. How to wiki. (So far, just the technical aspects needed for course work are a big challenge for me.)
These challenges are helping me realize how necessary it is for professional librarians to be both up to date and experienced in every aspect of the ongoing nature of changing technology. This experience is necessary in order for librarians to best serve their public. I am looking forward to teamwork in this class, because most teams I have worked on (via SLIS courses) have been wonderful and helpful learning tools.
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I, too, have that love/hate relationship with technology. I love embracing it when it works right!! And hate, hate, hate it when it fails me. Like just last week our DVR went out and I was so upset...how would I record all my shows? Mostly I was just mad that I pay monthly for a service that wasn't even working. It is amazing to me just how attached and dependent I am to technology. I mean, at my library, when our catalog goes down, we are basically crippled. The most we can do is point our students to the subject section they are looking for and hope they stumble upon something they need.
ReplyDeleteI have also found that the teams you work with in the SLIS classes are great learning tools. Everybody has different strengths and interests, and it is amazing what you gain from just being around these people in class.
ReplyDeleteI'm very hopeful that by the end of semester you'll be blogging, podding, and wiki'ing with the best of them, Maywin!!
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