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Okay, this was just too funny. Boo asked to borrow my "work glasses" last week. I said no, because I need them...you know, for work. So I popped the lenses out of some big sunglasses that she had for dress-up. Then, Boo announced that she needed to wear a dress to school, or-more precisely-a "go to a meeting dress, like you wear". You see, it was library day at school, and she needed to dress appropriately.

How do I love RSS, let me count the ways...

I love the convenience of having all the random stuff I would otherwise search for, come right to me.
I love that I can see at-a-glance if the bloggers I enjoy have posted anything new.
Everyone in my extended family blogs, and now I only look in one spot to catch up, rather than 25. (Big extended family :)
I have found some great cooking and eating sites by searching for more "feeds"
Here's my public blogroll:
http://www.bloglines.com/public/GwennieH

My friend Flickr

As many of you have already discovered, there is a lot of fun just waiting to be had on Flickr. I have a picture that's just waiting for a mosaic treatment :) and then, well, we all need our own Librarian Trading Card, don't we? Did you know that there is a Flickr group dedicated to pictures of pretty pedicures? True story.

There are a couple of things I think about when it comes to photos, though...1)privacy and 2) safety. As a parent, I try not to post pictures of my kids in a public venue, and certainly nothing that indicates where we live. As fun as all this stuff is to play around with, I try to be careful, and make sure I'm choosing privavcy settings, rather than automatically going with the default settings. One of the things I like about Flickr, is how ieasy it is to pull photos from Flickr and post them other places I use, such as Facebook and my other, personal blog. There again, making sure I am actively looking at, and deliberately choosing privacy settings is really important.

71/2 Habits of highly Successful Lifelong Learners

Habit 1: Begin with the end in mind
Habit 2: Accept responsibility for your own learning
Habit 3: View problems as challenges
Habit 4: Have confidence in yourself as a competent, effective learner
Habit 5: Create your own learning toolbox
Habit 6: Use technology to your advantage
Habit 7: Teach/mentor others
Habit 7 ½: Play

Hmmm, which habits are easiest for me? I'd have to say teaching/mentoring others and Play. They come very naturally for me. Often, the reasons I want to learn something new in the first place are either because a) It sounds like fun! or b) I want to teach someone else about it.

Habit 1: "Beginning with the end in mind." is another fairly natural habit for me. I am a fairly goal-oriented person. If I don't have clear goals at the outset, it just doesn't get done.

For Learning 2.0, I think I would like to focus on Habits 5 and 6 as the new challenges. Obviously, the 23 things are a good fit for using technology to my advantage. And then , I don't think that I have ever consciously created a "learning toolbox." This should be fun!

We're live!

January 5th marked the launch of our library's Learning 2.0 project. At last, all the blood, sweat and tears (mostly tears) have born fruit. Let's get this show on the road!

Learning 2.0

My first task, as part of our Learning 2.0 project at work, is to record a podcast with instructions on how to set up a blog. I thought it would behoove me to actually do it, before I try to tell staff how easy it is. I do have a blog of my own, but that's personal, and hosted on another site. I do try to keep work and life separated, to some extent :). Turns out, setting up a blog here at blogspot is as easy as I am about to tell people it is. What a relief.