Technology: My Continued Education

It has almost been three months since my last post, and while I've thoroughly enjoyed my time off, it is definitely time for me to jump back on the technology bandwagon. It should come as no surprise that the decision to jump-start my education of technology was aided by an assignment for a class! Regardless of the reason, here I am again--ready to conquer technology one fear at a time.

For one of my library classes, I am going to be completing a "Web Learning 2.0" course. Each week I will tackle at least one technology-related program on the internet (e.g. blogging, Flickr, Skype, etc.). After each grueling battle, I will post the (hopefully successful) results.

Today I took the first easy steps of the course by simply reading and learning about it. Learning 2.0 was started by a group of librarians who wanted to become more savvy with some Web 2.0 tools. Now I have the privilege of becoming more tech-savvy myself!

My favorite thing I read today was the course's "7-1/2 Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners" tutorial. Lifelong learning has definitely been a catch phrase in my library classes, and for good reason! I am excited to have a reason to learn more through this course. Even though (as always) I'm a little nervous about it being so self-directed, I know it will help me learn even more.

I think that I am fairly practiced in some of the 7-1/2 habits--in particular, habits 1, 7, and 7-1/2. I am always good at making goals--even though I desperately need to work on reaching them on time!! I always like to tell people about what I've learned because I know it helps me learn more--sorry to anyone who has ever fallen prey to my unasked-for teaching! And I always enjoy "playing" as a method of learning.

My favorite habit that the tutorial listed was, "Have confidence in yourself as a competent, effective learner." In case you haven't picked up on it yet or you're new to my blog, I get very panicked whenever I think about doing something technology-related that I've never done before. I definitely need to work on having confidence that I will be able to learn any of the new things this class requires me to learn. There's nothing like a good pep talk to get me moving--go team Becca! I can do this!