sharing is great

By far what I got out of this course was the mass amounts of information I could then pass on to my collegues.  In the past if I came accross an article or two I might pass it along, but there was never a larger purpose, an information sharing to try to accomplish a goal.  By taking this course I felt I was prepared enough to actually speak with my collegues in an informal 30-45 min session about blogging as well as a brief introduction to wikis.  Since I was relaying infromation from this course, it didn't add the pressure of "this is new so we have to do it."  It felt more like they got to participate in the exploritory level and throught process behind why I am suggesting the directions I am suggesting.  Of course, now the real work begins of not only infusing these tools into our library but giving the other librarians the confidence to use them beyond the initial novelty stage.

I would say that 5 weeks is almost too long though.  I was good for four but kind of slacked by the end of week four and for some of this week.  It probably was good that the final project was due before the end of the course, not only so we can comment on eachother's plans, but also because of fatigue! 

If I didn't have a job, I would say we needed MORE.  More time, more information, more excersises.  I also found that I got excited about blogging during blogging week, then excited about social bookmarking and kind of waned a bit on blogging by week two.  It was a bit difficult to not just favor the tool of the week rather than keeping with what works for the library.  Yes, I admit that!