My favourite things

I've really enjoyed 23 things. Some weeks I had my doubts about the activities, and sometimes it was a bit of a struggle to get started, but looking back I can honestly say that I've had a great time doing this. I highly recommend it.

My least favourite activity? There weren't any I really disliked, but I suppose the activities I enjoyed the least were the ones that I found the most frustrating, such as Technorati and the PLCMC sandbox. I tried and I tried and I tried, but for all my "I think I can"-ing in the end I found out I actually couldn't. This was the only problem I found with 23 things - the programme was written a couple of years ago and some of the links just don't work anymore. Having said that, playing around trying to make them work, even if I failed in the end, was probably a really valuable exercise. It doesn't work this way so how about if I try this? No, ok, how about this? Still no. Hmmmm. Well, what about if I do this? Still no .... and so on and so on. Frustrating - yes. Annoying - yes. A waste of time - no. Lots of valuable learning going on in trying and failing.

My favourite activity - lots of scope here. I really enjoyed exploring YouTube and the Web 2.0 award winners. I had fun with podcasts and flickr, and liked learning about audiobooks, del.icio.us, zoho writer and Library Thing. But my favourite activity was playing around with the image generators and seeing what they could do. I think I hid my preference well though. There are hardly any pictures in my blog.

Eleanor has asked us to write about one thing we have discovered in our 23 things travels that we have really liked, but that wasn't a web 2.0 application or a particular activity for me. It was this - blogging. Sharing what I had found out while I was out playing. Reading everyone else's amazing blogs and looking forward to the next posts to see what everyone else thinks about that topic. Watching the videos, admiring the artwork, enjoying the writing. So thank you all, it's been the best of times :)

And so it begins...

UniSA Library is about to begin 23 Things in earnest.

No-one should feel that they're trying to work through all the activities by themselves. Each of you are in the same boat - you are all learning something new. Everyone has a different learning style, some of you will find the activities really easy and others will find it more challenging. The main thing to remember is that really there isn't a wrong answer with any of these activities. Everything you look at and experience will add to your knowledge and confidence with these technologies.

This blog has been setup so that you can bounce new discoveries off each other and actually chat about some of the things that you've found. What are you enjoying? What are you hating? What have you seen that you've felt compelled to talk to others about? Once you have all completed the exercises from Week 2 and created your blog, you'll need to register it on Libnet. I'll then add each of you as authors to this blog so that you can post and comment here to your heart's content.