Thing 23 Feedback

This was a very rewarding learning experience.

Last Friday I was "elephant stamp" shamed. I seemed to have fewer elephant stamps than almost anyone else....and everyone knew it!! This made me quite anxious and I spent a couple of days at work (and part of a weekend) in madly trying to make up some lost ground.

I know I'm not a natural explorer of new technology so being part of a program where it was expected to spend time exploring many types of software (with the help of a couple of colleagues) was a good way of approaching it.

I think the most important thing I learnt was just to jump into new technology and explore a little at a time. I usually want to spend ages learning how to use something really well...and because I often don't have the time I never get around to starting.

Some of the software I've been using for a while...Google Scholar, Google Books, Encore, EBSCO 2.0, Google Maps, YouTube. Other applications I've just started exploring and would like to use more often...Google Docs, Delicious and Picasa (I've been meaning to use Picasa for ages).

Thanks to the 23 Things implementation crew...it was worth all your effort.