Thing 1

For Thing 1, we are supposed to "tell us what you hope to get out of the program".

I hope to learn about USABLE, highly adaptable technology that I can envision being used in a library.  I am not currently working in a school library, although I do volunteer in a public library twice a week.  It is sometimes hard for me to have the vision for HOW the technologies I learn about and discuss in coursework actually being implemented and used in the "real world".

I hope to learn about "real life" sustained implementation - as I alluded above, the five "w's", "who, what, when, where, why, and how" of positive sustained technology use.  It is hard to be excited about learning something in a vacuum, without practical application.

And as I mentioned above, "highly adaptable" technology.  I would like to learn technology that spans several library types, several device platforms, and can be molded to be used in many different scenarios.  I would like to learn skills that can follow me into any job that I have after I am done with St. Kate's - school library or otherwise!