Saturday, July 24, 2010

This is the end...


My friend the end... as sang by The Doors.

A great song that I thought of when first asked to reflect on the culmination of my LIS629 class. A class that I hope the rest of my graduate school can live up to. For me the class was the a great discovery of so many tools. Learning them for me was easy, it was quick, and it was fun. It forced me to look at tools like Twitter and Blogger as methods for gathering up followers, finding new followers, and getting my own messages out to the masses. The reality of the final project and the class itself is that it really is in place more to teach us to learn all over again. So many of these tools will be gone in a matter of months, the real thing I took away from this class is that I need to be ready to learn the new tools and be ready for them.

Already I have used some tools in other classes, Prezi for one. And other tools have already shown their future worth, Twitter specifically. Prezi represents a great alternative to the all too common and ever so lame Microsoft Presentation. Twitter on the other hand is part of my now growing PLN. Providing constant non-stop links to new websites and resources to learn on my own.

Now its time for the endless learning, reading, reflecting, hunting, and catching of all the web has to offer!