It is with great excitement that I begin this journey. I am making a career change, yes, but I also feel that it is somewhat more of a life change. The ultimate goal is to become a school librarian, but I will really enjoy the trip there. I had not realized just how much I genuinely miss learning. Already I am having so much fun learning all of the Web 2.0 information. Who knew I would be a blogger before classes really even get under way?!? I am very interested in following some other bloggers, such as http://blogs.iis.syr.edu/mslis/ and a few others that I glanced through briefly in my short journey to this point. I will definitely be going back and marking them to get updates. I also look forward to trying the go@blogger.com function to send pictures from my phone- just for the learning experience! I will also need to use mail-to-blogger to retrieve the picture. I also will be checking out the ACRL blog.
It is very good to know that there is such a strong network community out there- it is a little intimidating that a whole schoolful of kids are depending on me to really bring books alive, amongst all the other information technology they need to learn about to be really successful in our developing world. I have a feeling that the blog may come in very handy as a reference tool for myself, instead of having little scraps of paper with all the things I need to check out.
As excited as I am about the technology side of this journey, I must say that I am equally enthusiastic about learning to be a great librarian. Everything I have done so far, such as reading about the historical functions of the library to reading about other librarians' ideas of drawing kids into the library re-convinces me every day that this one of the best decisions I have ever made. May the games begin!
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