Sooooo....Why am I here? What do I hope to learn from this program?
Well firstly I thought the first clip from week 1: the machine is us/ing us was great. It was very clever, fast paced, visually exciting, concept loaded and in a sense a wake up call to the evolving world online. Feeling a bit out dated and yet excited knowing that the concepts introduce in the clips were those that I was going to discover through the Learning 2.0, I waited with bated breath for the explore and adventure exercises to begin.
With the Stephen Fry clip, I'm almost embarrassed to say that I didn't know anything about him, certainly knew nothing about the many roles he had undertaken in his life, as an actor, English Comedian, Columnist and much more including of course being a "Digital technology" enthusiast, so what do you do when you have no idea? I wiki him of course. Yes I have begun to rely on wiki to fill in the missing gaps in my knowledge and it's great. I apply this strategy to work, any time I get an information query and I don't have an idea on the event, a person, a concept I use wiki to bring me up to speed.
Getting back to Stephen Fry, his comment about 'the idea that you could lose that moment is completely disappeared' intrigue me, especially in relation to what seem to be the reverse for digital information. It's true that with emergent technologies, instances which Stephen Fry mentioned in the clip will become obsolete, that missed TV series, that old movie favourite, now you can rent it on DVD, check out you tube or other video websites, technology have indeed come a long way.
However when it comes to digital information, this is a different matter, with the transitory nature of web based digital information, the issues related to the preservation of these have prompted a task force to be created. An initial step which they hope would address 'the many preservation issues raised by the rapid proliferation of digital information'. While that moment in time maybe forever captured one way or another, the popularity of the Internet, the speed, the diversity of information, the 'instance-ness' may have contributed to the shorten lifespan on certain information in this case, digital information.
So what do I want to learn from this programme, everything that is on offer plus more from blogs, wikis, podcasts to flickr. I want it all, to viewing how people use these web 2.0 technology to how libraries can use these technologies. As John Stanley would put it 'expectation plus one', slightly applied in a different context but I still think it works.
Till next we chat.
However when it comes to digital information, this is a different matter, with the transitory nature of web based digital information, the issues related to the preservation of these have prompted a task force to be created. An initial step which they hope would address 'the many preservation issues raised by the rapid proliferation of digital information'. While that moment in time maybe forever captured one way or another, the popularity of the Internet, the speed, the diversity of information, the 'instance-ness' may have contributed to the shorten lifespan on certain information in this case, digital information.
So what do I want to learn from this programme, everything that is on offer plus more from blogs, wikis, podcasts to flickr. I want it all, to viewing how people use these web 2.0 technology to how libraries can use these technologies. As John Stanley would put it 'expectation plus one', slightly applied in a different context but I still think it works.
Till next we chat.
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