Week 2, Thing 5-Library 2.0 and Web 2.0

Library 2.0 and Web 2.0 are quite similar to me. The only difference is the atmosphere that the 2.0 is set in. Otherwise, to me, it means a unique way to communicate. It’s a great way to stay connected and to network with people that you may have never thought you would have connected with unless you’d travel outside of your own home, city, state, and even country. It also let’s you be creative in your own, unique way for others to see and yet, let’s you save face to finding your own unanswered questions when you felt you should have known the answer all along. It helps to combine work and home environments and keeping them the same with familiarity, and connect you to enormous amounts of knowledge you thought you could only dream about with the many ways of networking.

Week 1, Thing 2- The 7 1/2 Habits

So, watching the video of 7 ½ Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners was quite interesting. Here are the habits to refresh your memory incase you forgot what they are:

Habit 1: Begin with the end in mind
Habit 2: Accept responsibility for your own learning
Habit 3: View problems as challenges
Habit 4: Have confidence in yourself as a competent, effective learner
Habit 5: Create your own learning toolbox
Habit 6: Use technology to your advantage
Habit 7: Teach/mentor others
Habit 7 ½: Play

So when looking at these habits to build, I know they all have their own equal challenge. For me, I feel the easiest habit would be habit #4, to have confidence in myself as a competent, effective learner. This one is quite easy because I will always speak up and ask my friends and co-workers about new technology. I seek out the technology from those who are most knowledgeable in the area and are very willing to learn and be open minded about most new technology that comes my way. To seek it out, helps to build the confidence I need to learn.

So, now that I know what’s easiest for me, I look to see which habit will be the hardest for me. Habit 3, view problems as challenges, would probably be the hardest for me. It’s difficult to view problems as just a challenge, especially when it gets really tough, to the point where you see no solution. I am not much of a problem solver when it comes to certain areas, but am willing to take on challenges as they come forth. So this is a new challenge for me to be more welcoming with problems and converting my view of them to see them more as an invited challenge that I need to take on.