To all things an ending...

• What were your favorite discoveries or activities over the past ten weeks? 

It was nice getting to work with Google Docs and Twitter...I had started a Twitter account but never got around to doing anything with it.

• Do you feel more confidence with these resources now? Was it time well-spent? 

I do feel more confident with these resources and it was definitely an interesting experiment getting to try a bombardment of various technologies.

• If a similar learning program is offered in the future, are there other resources and technologies you would like to see covered? Any suggestions for how we might run the program differently? 

Giving everybody a week to work on that weeks techs was in my opinion, plenty of time. At this time, I can't think of any other things I would want to see covered.

• Do you think our patrons would benefit from a similar program?

As long as it was presented in a user-friendly manner, I think our patrons could certainly use a series of lessons like these...as I tell people in my computer classes, I may be showing you the tools/tricks you need to know the material, but only with continued self-education, will you truly retain the knowledge.

Novelist

I chose Teens, then Graphic Novels, and finally broke it down to Superheroes. I think this would be a great way to show patrons a recommended list of items that they might be interested in and that could lead them to finding related books that would help them.

Bookletter

I signed up for the free top 15 Fiction Bookletter and the top 15 Non-Fiction Bookletter. It is my hope that by keeping up to date with these, I will always be able to let patrons know what the newest books are.

Goodreads

Recommended book: Alice Cooper, Golf Monster by Alice Cooper

Blog # 17---Podcasts

I listened to the LearnOutLoud and the BBC podcasts...found them to be interesting for what they were...I have listened to other more hobby-centric podcasts that were a lot more fascinating...a recent one with NPR that was with Alice Cooper for example :).

Blog #19--Comparing Wikis

I looked at a few of the wikis and could see the benefit of the library having one. Perhaps if we talk about topics important to our patrons, it would allow patrons to come in and add in their own suggestions, etc...of course one would have to look out for the potential bad language that a patron could leave...we would of course filter out things like that.

Blog # 18--Play in the Sandbox

I added in both favorite musician and movies...I enjoyed being able to add my thoughts etc to this much like in Wikipedia (something I have had experience posting to before). I find it fascinating that our words are monitored and that if any misinformation is present, it is looked at thoroughly and attempted to be erased.