Thursday, March 27, 2008

7 and 1/2 lifelong learning habits

Well for work for the OCL Web Things Challenge, they wanted us to : "Use one of your test posts to create an entry about the habits among the 7 and 1/2 lifelong learning habits that is easiest and hardest for you & why. "

Hmm, well I guess the easiest would be Habit 7 and a 1/2, Play! Because who doesn't like to play? I read a lot, and am curious about new things. I watch a show sometimes called "How It's Made", that shows how lots of items you might take for granted are created, from computers to guitars and a whole lot of other things. But if that doesn't qualify, then, I guess I'll go with Habit 6, Use technology to your advantage. I live to research. When I was introduced to the world wide web, I took to it like a duck to water, and absolutely adore learning things online. I'll use many different search engines, and I have a ton of links. I also learned a lot from a class I took about del.icio.us that was in the last Staff Development day.

Hardest habit? Umm, maybe Habit 2, Accept responsibility for your own learning? Although I love to surf the web and learn things online, I have a class that I took a couple of years ago at Brookdale Community College on building web pages. It was a self paced class that you could do anytime, but for one reason or another I never actually completed it. I still have the book, and the cd-rom that goes with it, and one day I plan on finishing it. I got a bit distracted by other things in my life-this was before I got the job here at the library and had a lot more time :)

This though has been fun and maybe I can get back to that book. Or maybe it just wasn't the right way for me to learn and I'll find another. I've found that having flexibility in life and learning makes things a lot easier. Bye for now!

My first post!

Hi, I'm Alisa, and I work at the Jackson Branch. And yes, this is really an imaginatively named blog, isn't it? Lol. Um, lol is an internet acronym for laugh out loud. And if you have any questions about what something like LOL or ROFL or something like that means, I'll be happy to explain it, or rather send you a link to a whole bunch of them. I love to research on the web :) Although I started this for work, I may share some of my writing on here as well, as I love to write. Anywho, hi there and hope you have fun surfing!