Yea! Finally a "thing" that I know and am familiar with. Youtube can use up a lot of time and could even be considered dangerous. It's very addicting (and I don't even like playing on the computer much). I have used it to find line dances and I think the talking dogs were hysterical.

I have explored LibraryThing and found it very interesting. It might be a source of possible titles for future book discussions. It was fairly user-friendly and making a list of titles wasn't too difficult.

The online productivity tools do not seem worth using in my job at this time, but it's nice that they are out there for people who may not have excel or word.

Doing the wiki unit was actually fun. I added my blog to the list of blogs. I put a list of favorite books on Sandbox, and I see that someone has added to it. I took a bit of effort to figure out how to do it. I was already familiar with wikis and Wikipedia. I have used it often.

I played around with tagging and Del.icio.us. I couldn't get the buttons for Del.icio.us to load onto my computer but I get the idea. Technorati seemed to be a wast of time.
I read in a library journal that there is a library that is starting to use patron's tags in their catalog. It will be interesting to see if that confuses the the patrons.

With a little help, I just learned to post a photo from my computer, resize it and put it where I want it. Lots of steps!

Mako

I've read several articles on Web 2.0 and Library 2.0. Rick Anderson, in "Away from 'icebergs'" does have a good point about our "just in case" print reference collections being obsolete. It's a little scary to do away with our old back-up sources, but if no one is using them, they're just wasting space. Besides, everything is accessible in a more current, updated, and easy-to-find form on the web. How often do we use any of the old print reference books?
He also talks about how libraries often have sources that need to be "taught" to the public. How useful is that? Of course we don't have the manpower to teach every patron how to use databases, if they even show interest. Each improvement and change in web sources has been a little more user-friendly and able to be self-taught.

I never got around to commenting on the 7 1/2 habits of learning, so here goes.
The big thing is to accept responsibility for your own learning. Finding time to work on this is hard during the workday, so I've started coming in early to keep up. It's quiet and easier to focus, which is really important because most of this is totally new and not easily digested. I'm beginning to have more confidence in my tech abilities and have even more every time we discuss things among the staff and help each other figure something out. We have to keep reminding each other that we are supposed to be having fun and not stressing about getting through the rest of the things by the deadline.

After playing around with wikis I have to admit it isn't the techy part of wikis that is hard, it's putting faith in them as a reference source. If you have always relied on an authoritative organization the give credence to an article, it's hard not to be leary of articles that can be altered, or written entirely, by someone without obvious credentials. I have read journal studies that say the users of wikipedia tend to be older and more educated than nonusers. There is a local teacher who tells her middle-schoolers to use it for research. I really do understand how something like Wikipedia could be accurate, maybe even more accurate than conventional sources, because those people who do know and care about and have interest in the subject are on top of the entries, and the speed of correction is much improved over older ways. It will just take a while to emotionally accept it.