Week 1 Introduction - Learn to learn this way

I'm back from Seattle and feel like I have been in a time warp.  I am 50 years old and really have little to no interest in Web 2.0 and the whole second lfe...I have a first life that is full and keeps me happy and busy.  I have spent 50 years creating me and am very happy with who I am and how I am in the world.  Why do I need or want an avatar or to waste my time with all of this when I could be gardening or reading my endless stack of books that I love?  Because I have to work at least 12 more years and have to deal with the youngsters who wear all of this as second skins.  I do believe in life-long learning and am busy taking tap classes, meeting with a French tutor weekly and swimming daily.  BUT after my Seattle experience I choose to become a lab rat.  Yes, this is a conscious choice...not an interest really, but something I think I should spend some time with: the adventure begins....Nancy

I have come back after attending my first SLA conference in Seattle. It was a wonderful experience as a first time attendee of the conference. I liked the way SLA prgrammes were organised. Lots of opprtunities were available to meet fellow professionals. I wish the conference was for a longer period so that I could meet more people. We learn a lot by meeting people. Throughout life one keeps on learning ---it may be professional or personal. Recentaly technology has affected our personal & professional lives in many ways. SLA is facilitating Information Professionals  to learn 23 things, it is a very good initiative of SLA. Learning 23 things will definately help me in my work Because I am working for IT company I will be able to talk to my colleagues in their language.

Good for both of you -- take it week by week. 15 minutes a day will mean 23 new things under our belt by summer's end.  Best, Susan

I work in a small library in Germany and it's great to have this learning opportunity provided by SLA. I particularly enjoyed the short song at the beginning. It set a nice tone of relaxation and non-intimidation.

I totally agree with that last comment. Plus twenty three things I'm going to learn is stuck in my head!

I was lost as to how to Add a Comment, until I realised that I probably had to be Signed In to something for the Add Comment link to display. I knew I had Signed Up for 23 Things, though there didn't seem to be a call to Sign In. So the next choice was to register to use the SLA Wiki, which has done the trick, though now I can't remember where I went to do that. While there (wherever it was) I found the page SLA has set up for our chapter, so that was a bonus.

WOW! This is a great idea. I am so grateful for this opportunity; while a long time RN,CRNA I am a brand new student at the URI GSLIS and I so need to be updated on using the web.

It takes a little practice -- figuring out whether you're signed on or not.  But once you find  wiki.sla.org  -- and see the dashboard -- you can add to the Chapter Idea Bank as well.  You can make the wikis you want to frequent your favorites by clicking on the stars by the wiki.  Anyway, good work everyone.  Susan

Hello, I am a student at Catholic University's School of Library and Information Science and a new SLA member. I am now taking a course on Special Libraries and am familiarizing myself with the SLA Web site. I am going to try the 23 things and hope to learn about Web 2.0 by actually using its tools. thanks for posing this challenge.  Ann

Hello fellow voyagers!

I'm starting late....... I'm 52 and it's July 17th.......but I'm looking forward to the challenge.

Let's do the 23 Things. Jan Cook

Friends

I am almost 64 years old and just retired.  I also just completed the 23 Things Course through the Public Library in Charlotte.  While it did take time, it was a lot of fun and easy to do!  I also found that the various tools covered have applications in my personal life!

So, I say, go for it and enjoy!!

Janet L. Flowers

I'm another late starter.  I've been using SLA's wiki for awhile, but am looking forward to learning about all the tools. I've been stuck on the first "thing" for awhile.  But, now I'm on vacation and thought it would be a good time to make a little progress.  I met Richard Geiger (23 Things song writer), at a San Francisco Chapter meeting last night.  Thanks for a good time, SF Chapter!  I met and reconnected with a lot of great people.  I am challenging my DC Chapter colleagues to try these 23 Things, so I'm trying to lead by example.  It is encouraging to hear that some people have already completed this course.  Thank you for the comments, everyone.  Support is important.

Diane Schnurrpusch, President, DC/SLA

Am I too late?  I will try to catch up and at least start on the 23 things.  Must say, that song is the best Overview I have ever seen / heard to introduce a course!  I'm looking forward to learning lots!  Teresa Prior (health region librarian) Nanaimo BC Canada

It's never too late to participate, to learn . I'm glad I'll soon have company in my spaces! Also, don't forget to start checking the 2009 DC/SLA Conference Wiki. In January, we will start promoting more... but once you are done with 23 Things and start thinking about next year's annual conference... let us know how we can make our conference wiki most beneficial to you!

Hello,

I have been working on the 23 things for the past couple of weeks but am still on Week 1.  Are there some specific things that I am supposed to accomplishbefore I move on from the first thing do I move on once I am satisfied with my progress?  I understand that my progress is tracked by the blog, which I have signed up for.  I don't want to make my blog visible to everyone - at least not yet.  Who should I invite to monitor it?  Thank you.  I hope my questions are clear.

 hank you,

Laura 

Has anyone actually been able to view Richard Geiger and Tim DeWolf's 23 Things video posted on this page?  I have tried to download it on three different PCs (two XP and one Win2000) with WMP 11, while logged in.  I get the following error message every time:

Windows Media Player cannot play the file.  The player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file.

Any ideas?  Thanks!

I downloaded the file first and then double clicked on it after it downloaded (which took about 2 minutes). Windows Media Player launched and it played for me just fine.

Thanks, Karen.  Duh!  I forgot that basic trick -- right-click (in Windows, that is) and save first.

I'm a little confused. The title says "Thing 1 & 2: Read this blog...." But there appears to be only a single post on the blog (with comments) and no other posts to go to. As a matter of fact, it looks like a wiki rather than a blog. I'm not sure I am on the right track here.

Thank you, I have fixed the title to be less confusing for others. I've also added a note on 23 Things home page about a technical problem we've encountered on the wikis. Essentially, this site offers a self-guided exploration of tools. The first two things (hence, "Thing 1 & 2" are to review this first page including the video and then make sure to register. Once done, move onto next week's module.

Woah, I'm pretty far behind all of you, but I'm going to try to catch up! I'm ready for my whirlwind tour of all things Web 2.0!

OK, since there is someone else starting nearly as late (yesterday!) I'll go ahead and give this a try. I'm not too confident about how much I'll be able to do. Not because of my abilities, but rather because my company blocks so many sites - especially "social networking sites" and some have come and gone mysteriously - Flickr disappeared, but YouTube suddenly became available. I have had no luck in contacting IT to let me have access to anything (specific library blogs or previews of safety videos to purchase).

Now I'm off to see if I can get access to a blog of my own...

I am really looking forward to this. This week hosting librarian from around the Pacific Rim (Federal Librarian) to work on WiFi and our Unicorn ILS. It will be great to come back each night and spend some time getting smarter on Web 2 and 23 Things to impress my colleagues with a subtle comment. Just watching the video gave me a host of things to comment upon.  bdm

Well, I'm later than any of you in starting 23 Things, but I'm really eager to get started! I wasn't able to attend SLA 2008 (even though it was just up the road from my home), but better late than never.  I feel a need to keep learning new things, and SLA's 23 Things is just the ticket to keep me informed and feeling as though I'm not missing the boat in my very small library.  As a fairly new librarian  - graduated June 2007 - I'm familiar with some of the technologies, but we don't use them in our library.  Nevertheless, this is going to be a great way to further my goal of ongoing professional development.

Hello, I am looking forward to this!  I registered for this weeks ago and thought I would get an email on how to start but there wasn't an email (unless I missed it) and then saw an email today that said it was extended till Dec - so here I am. 

Thanks for the reminder to get going on this. No better way than hands on PLAY.

Well, hey now!  I work for the University of New Hampshire Library (I'm in our Physics branch). 23 Things was recently mentioned on a listserv.  I've heard about it before, but hadn't signed up.  Recently, our Library began Friday Play Dates.  Anyone here interested gets together for an hour or so to learn a new Web 2.0 application.  23 Things should prove useful in our initiative to learn what our patrons are learning.

No time like the present to start!  This is really strange...I'm really learning something new...like a new language or how to ride a horse.  Different...a little scary...but fun.  Glad I'm not alone here!

Nothing like a Friday afternoon to get me motivated.  Thanks to the list-serve for the reminder!! 

     I am feeling very very slow today. I just registered into 23 Things this afternoon, and read this overview and Wiki 101 and a bunch of the links that were on that page and seem to do a great job of explaning the idea of wikis and terminology and I guess things you can do with them. But what I'm not seeing is any instructions of HOW to do any of this. I guess I managed to create a "space," but I'm not sure what to do next. Are you supposed to look at some of the other pages and add/import them into your space, just invent something to say or what? I think I might be missing something in this process here, but I don't know what or where to look for it. Can someone else help me? My email is Susan.Barned@atf.gov if any kind of response would bore everybody else.

Hi, Susan, 23 Things is set up to be a self-paced learning experience on different Web 2.0 tools. Keep going through each "Thing." In the next two modules, you'll set up a blog and start keeping track of what you are learning. We offer different options for blogs. Some participants have decided to keep their notes/ideas within their own personal space in SLA's wikis. Many revisit these pages and leave impressions of what they liked/don't like about the tools they've played with. Our main goal is for you to learn about different tools while having fun playing around with them. Karen

Greetings, all. I am very new to SLA (August 2008). I've just registered for the 23 Things and the SLA Wiki Spaces. I am very glad to have found SLA and I'm looking forward to learning here. I'm going to go play in the Wiki sandbox now. ~mk

Hello. I've recently registered for the 23 Things and am looking forward to working through them.

I'm so glad Susan asked what to do next because I wasn't sure what we were suppose to do next!  This is the very first posting I've ever made to a wiki, and it isn't painful at all!

Good work, everyone! No matter how far you get with the 23 Things! Because the fact that we're all here at least trying the technology out is a testament to our dedication as information professionals to lifelong learning.

I've been gone for a while, but I'm back now. I did play in the Wiki Sandbox and I've created a profile page based on a template: http://wiki.sla.org/display/play/Something+Wiki+This+Way+Comes...Mary+Kirk.\\

This is my second posting to this Wiki, so I am learning.

hi, I just heard about 23 Things and registered this afternoon. It's exciting to have this opportunity to learn those Web 2.0 tools. One question for you, after registration, do I get any confirmation email? I haven't received any yet. How do I know that I have been successful on registration? Thanks.

Starting late, but my birthdate in Second Life is 07/01/2008!

This "23 things" concept looks as though it provides the kind of systematic approach to these topics that I have been trying (and not succeeding, to be honest) to create for myself.  I look forward to adding some new skill sets as I work through the list.  Thanks, SLA. 

Hello everyone - I just got my email about The 23 Things. I see this has been going on since July maybe I missed it because I am a student member of SLA-on well, in any event, I am excited about getting started.  Lifelong learning is not a problem for me, after all I am a 48 year old woman completing my MSLS in a totally online program.

Like Nina, Kevin and the other most recent posters, I came across the 23 Things in the recent SLA email. The Learning 2.0 /23 Things was mentioned in an article I just read (Michael Stephens, "Taming Technolust", RUSQ, 47, 4). So I put 2 and 2 together and decided that tackling this while looking for my first professional library job will hone my skills. I'm looking forward to the experience.

We welcome all SLA members to 23 Things - early participants as well as the people who are just starting (which is why we decided to keep it going through December)! The registration process is just a way for us to know who's participating in the program. No confirmation message is sent. Just dig into the self-paced modules we've put together and, most importantly, have FUN!

Hallo Everyone.  I am Janice De Wee from South Africa and very very late in joining this exciting program.  I heard of 23 Things from my manager and joined the program a few weeks ago.  I was overwhelmed at the office and finally decided today to start with my first thing.  I am very excited to participate in this program and I will have to teach what I learn to my co-workers.  Thank you for the opportunity of fun filled learning.

Just starting 23 things on my semester break.  I hope to learn something new and hope its not too late to sign up.

Welcome! It's never too late to start learning about the tools and technologies many of us are exploring! I don't expect we'd take this site down once the 23 Things initiative is over although we may not respond as frequently to comments. Enjoy and have fun. Don't forget to share your ideas with others.

Glad to find it's not too late to do '23 Things' though the initiative is over. I'm having fun already!

I've done some of these things (such as using Delicious), but not others, so this will push me to try things.  I've never been real keen on the blog format; I prefer a more organized list of links, not just a chronological one.  Maybe tagging will take care of that.  And I don't see what Second Life will do for me except eat up time I don't have.  But I hope to try all 23 things!

 This is a good challenge from the organization, even if we don't meet Stephen Abram's numerical goals.

I work in a non-traditional setting - and work with some web development tools already. However, I don't know everything, and I delighted to have a structured way to explore the other parts of Web 2.0.

Looking forward to 23 Things about the Semantic Web.

I'm a sixty-year old solo librarian who doesn't get out enough to network. Thanks much for keeping "23 Things" up indefinitely for us slowpokes.

Hi,

This is Apurba Kanjilal from INDIA. It's April 7 2009, and I have joined 23 Things.  I am fifty years of age and work for ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation). 26 Years behind me in this endeavour.

I look forward to learn a lot from 23T and also from Innovation Lab. Special thanks to Mr. Stephen Abram.

Even though, I am located in India, 'Special Libraries' followed with IO, and Library Journal have been the main source of information and inspiration throughout my professional career.

Now the Institutional Membership which we have taken, is a dream come true, openning up new vistas in learning and sharing.

I hope to benefit a lot, and use open source tools, to dessiminate content in a professional way within my Intranet.

Thanks a lot.

Hi!

I'm excited to start working through the 23 Things. I've been doing some of the stuff already, but it'll be great to get a chance to learn better (and probably more efficient) ways of doings things.

I have a suggestion: could the counter (the number of participants) be taken out of the intro page title?

http://wiki.sla.org/display/23Things/Welcome+to+23+Things%21+%281%2C792+SLA+members+registered+so+far%29

If one bookmarks the page, and then tries to go back later, they are redirected to the page that says 'not found, maybe it's been renamed' page since the count (and page title) has changed. Maybe move the counter to the next line and make it a separate element? Maybe this is only an issue on Safari?

Though I'd signed up for the 23 Things months and months ago I never had a chance to progress very far.  Two weeks ago I lost my job as Knowledge Resources Manager at Kennametal.  Now is the time to learn.  Hopefully, picking up a few skills will make me even more marketable.