My final thoughts

What an amazing experience.  I know these past 5 weeks were pretty intense – alot of us had very busy work-lives during this time and fitting in the course was a little difficult at times – but as I’ve said to all of my colleagues, without hesitation, I would do it all again.  You know, I’ve paid for courses before – and learned very little!  Hard to believe that this was all free. 

Besides learning by using the technologies and the well-produced webcasts, screencasts and podcasts, my favourite experiences had to be the weekly chats.  This was probably the most valuable learning tool – if I wasn’t learning from my peers, I was gaining their support and encouragement.  I treasured the time I spent with these folks – being among your “peers”, even if it’s just an hour a week, can be very valuable when you’re in an environment where you’re not quite sure your efforts are appreciated (I still don’t think folks realize how much time I spend learning and implementing these new tools).

The social tool I was most interested in, personally, was flickr; professionally, I would choose wikis, social bookmarking, and social networking sites.

What surprised me: I watched the YouTube video, “Web 2.0…The Machine is Us/ing us” again last night (I saw it before the course)… wow, it had so much more meaning the second time around.

My only suggested improvement to the course would be add maybe a week or two… just a little more time for absorbing the material and getting to experiment with the tools.

Thank you – so much! – for this course.