another random reflection

This activity, the CLMC Learning 2.0, has been an interesting and rewarding experience. I'm excited that we have had this opportunity to experiment with the different technologies. It's also been fun to have coworkers lead the learning.

As we investigate and evaluate the tools, I hope we can maintain a critical eye. Although it's all cool, not all the technologies will be appropriate for each of us. As we talk about them, I look forward to robust discussions that include advantages as well as the disadvantages of the technologies without anyone feeling defensive. Maybe that's not a problem for us, but it could be easy to jump on the technology bandwagon.

Will they use it?

Librarians who serve large departments find blogs to be a useful way to communicate with faculty, staff and students (rather than emailing everyone). Would something like this work with our smaller community? For example, with fewer than ten faculty members it’s easier & more effective if I use email to communicate – especially since my faculty isn’t the most technologically savvy. Even the students have their own listservs, and again, it’s easier to email them rather than hope that they check my “education blog.” What do others think?