… that I won’t get much sleep tonight, as I think about that presentation by Larry Lessig (Sue’s done the hard work, so check it out via suelibrarian), and about the wondrous creativity that I witness as I wander through this programme. It’s daunting, cause there is just so much clever stuff, and given that I am just at here … woah! It’s also a heap of fun, rewarding, and, well, it just sets the brain to full forward. This is the personal development that I am seeing; jumping in and working it out, where I can; delving into a blog or help forum when I give up 😉 Remembering that I have a computing science major!
I think about the implications for these tools and skills for MPOW; we are soon to run a current awareness blog, and its easy to see the added appeal when an image is included. Some of my posts to those blogs come straight out of feeds I get; I’ve very recently moved to FeedDemon so that feeds from workplace servers (ie those behind firewalls) can be established. I’m an information filter, its what I’ve always been; just that I feel I can now do this more efficiently, and perhaps more expansively – I am covering a wider range of sources.
I’m conscious that I’ve let some of it drop already; I don’t give Facebook as much attention as I thought I would when I started. On the other hand, I’m setting up a Flickr site for MPOW, for those of us who like to take photographs of the wildlife we see around the site, like this serious little willie wagtail sitting on that well-constructed nest. This type of activity has the potential to add to the sense of community of a workplace, so this can be more than professional development.
Its getting late, and the reflections become hazy … I’m off to prepare to be away from home for a few nights, at an Open Access Publishing workshop in Syd-er-ney (long live the oh!lympics), followed by a day with Monet and the Impressionists at the NSWAG!
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