Learning and me

If someone had said to me 2 weeks ago that I would be blogging and contributing to wikis I would have laughed at them. If they had suggested that I would be doing it and enjoying it no less then I'd probably be rolling around on the ground unable to breath because I was laughing so hard. But here I am now working on 4th post no less for my blog and I'm excited about wikis. I'd also heard all about Facebook, BeBo, YouTube etc etc but I wasn't interested. Then a friend said have a look at my Facebook page and see the photos of my little girl. Well it was inevitable then that I would end up with a Facebook page of my own where I have added applications, posts, video and family photos. I have also posted to friends pages. So just another example of my developing relationship with 2.0 technologies. I am a library technician of quite a few years experience. I am also just about to commence a degree via distance education (DE) in librarianship. I tried DE many years ago and all the info was mailed to me. This time however it is very different with most things being online. In my mailings I received recently, for this semester's 2 subjects, I got a subject outline, study guide and book of readings for 1 subject but the other subject only had a subject online. All resources for this subject are online in a specially created area where we can submit assignments, contact our teacher via forum posts, talk to my fellow students via posts and view the actual subject content. I have thus far access the first 2 modules for 1 subject, replied to several posts from fellow students and posted a question for my lecturer. So yet another example of technology I've had to get my head around (quickly) but still I'm excited to be doing it all. So the saying old dogs can't learn new tricks definitely isn't true in this case. I'm not saying I'm going to be a wizz at this and maybe some of the things I learn about won't end up being used by me at work but at least I will know about them and understand how they may be used and that's the important thing isn't it. I don't want to stagnate, I want to keep learning things. I may need a little (or big) push sometimes but that's fine too. What I learn today helps me to help you tomorrow.