Summary!

I thought Learning 2.0 was a great program. It was very comprehensive and ambitious!

I would have liked it broken down into bite-sized pieces for us - to truly take in all the information. (i.e introduce 10 new web applications at a time, several times throughout the course of the year.) The job related sites could have been addressed lecture-style in the media classroom in mini sessions - step-by-step for everyone.

I thought it was somewhat unnecessary to both blog our thoughts and put them in Blackboard. It would have been really nice to be able to access the Learning 2.0 site remotely from home (without installing anything), so you can share the sites with friends and play with it at home.

Three things that I would have liked to have seen on the Learning 2.0 is:

1) Instant Messaging and how it could be productive in the workplace (i.e. ILL instantly communicating with BIOSCI).

2) The issue of computer security, firewalls, security software upgrades etc. What do we need to know?

3) What are our work Email options? Many people are still using UAF squirrel/webmail. Mozilla Thunderbird is becoming popular. Are there others?

Learning 2.0 definitely got the communication flowing in our department. Everyone was asking eachother questions and complaining. :) I sat down with Asha once a day for an hour and we helped eachother with this. We learned a lot from eachother. The blog also gave me more of a voice to bring up work related thoughts.

I now know more than I ever dreamed/wanted to about the internet and its uses. I’m almost up to speed with other people my age on what the internet has to offer – and in some cases I know more. Thanks Learning 2.0!

P.S. Thanks Robyn R. for introducing the Common Craft Plain English site. It made Learning 2.0 much more understandable!