Thing #23 - The End

This entire experience gave me a much broader knowledge of what is out there today in the world of technology. We have a technology teacher at our school, so I think I more or less left it up to her to be up on all the latest information. How wrong was I in thinking that! I love the idea of returning to my school library in the fall armed with all the knowledge I learned from this Library2Play experience.

My favorite discoveries were Teacher Tube and how to create a podcast using
PlayStory3.

I was so glad I was able to complete this exercise, and it gives me confidence in doing similiar type computer courses in the future.

I was surprised at how much I didn't know about information technology available through the Internet. I hope our HISD Library Services department addresses this in the next school year.

I thought the program was well planned and well layed out, but that some of the exercies needed a little more explanation for novice computer users. But, the exercises were called "discoveries" and I felt being able to figure it out on my own made it more meaningful to me and helped me in remembering the steps that I did to complete each exercise.

I would most likely participate in another discovery exercise, depending on the length of the overall program and what time of year it was done. I was able to do this during my summer vacation; I don't see being able to do it during the school year unless I had longer than nine weeks to complete it.

A sentence to sum it all up - "What a great learning experience for this 52 year old elementary school librarian!"