Challenge Conclusions

When I began this, I did not think I would get all the way through the challenge but here I am!

I am still mulling what tools I think will be useful to me in the future. I know that wikis serve a purpose as referred to in my previous posting, and possibly a blog. Flickr will be a good source for pictures and tagging can be useful in narrowing a search and tracking my sites of interest, especially if I do any work from home.

Personally, who knows yet what I will use. The best part however, is that I believe I may have learned about some tech tools that my kids may not know about yet! Guess I shouldn't count on that one. At least I am acquainted with the concepts so we can converse in a somewhat reasonable fashion. And, like any new knowledge, I now have a good framework for building from because I know of options.

My biggest frustration is the fact that not all sites are intuitive/user friendly for those with limited experience. Our staff now need to sit down together and explore options and share how-to's. Some were more frustrated than others, I guess depending upon how tech savy each is. Terminology even in the area of instruction does not always make sense. The longer we use stuff, the more we forget what our own learning curve was like and of course, that learning curve may be much steeper for some. I still remember the first time I had to use a mouse--I did not have a clue--and I often forget when working with the public that for some, they are still back there--do not have a clue--about whatever.

Thank you for making this course available. Since it was not linked to a particular time of the day, i.e. no chat or phone, it was a little easier to squeeze into my schedule. There were some days when the only way to do any of it was from home.