The finish line

Well, I have reached Week 21 and the 21 Lunges program has come to an end. It has been a long time coming (especially for my mentor Daniel, I am sure). I have been interrupted, distracted and diverted. However, despite some procrastination along the way, the journey has absoulutely been worth it. I didn't enjoy the amount of reading involved in the earlier stages of the program, but all the video clips really helped. My personal favourite modules were Blogs, Social Networks and Photos. I refer to all my favourites in an earlier post which quotes from a speech that I am about to give at ALIA09. I also talk about what I can use in the Library - this includes podcasts and vodcasts, Wikis and Survey Monkey, mashups and Groups. Amongs the things that were completely new to me were Digg, Technorati and Yahoo pipes. Also, I wasn't expecting to start learning about Web 3.0 when I am still mastering and practising new skills and applications in Web 2.0.

Daniel and I have discussed at length what might make this a better progam, particularly as we undertook this as a reverse mentoring - one-on-one learning journey. Shorter would be better, both in module content and number of modules - or self selected modules, so that you could skip over ones you already knew a lot about or used (and I felt constrained to do them all in order and thoroughly).

However, it has been a great experience, so a big thank you to all who wrote the modules and undertook to guide the Library staff through the proram as Library site 'champions'. And additonal thanks to Daniel, for not only the mentoring, but for helping to create and realise the further opportunity of writing about our experiences and presenting them as a paper at the ALIA09 conference in Adelaide in September 2009. Tomorrow, the world!