Friday, September 10, 2010
New Project Under Way
This project is about a personal inquiry of my choice where I am to blog about my experience with the process of information inquiry. The first step in information inquiry is selecting a topic of interest. Now that's the first problem. What am I truly, personally interested in? Something that I have a real interest in or concern about? I have interests in digital photography, I dabble in video and audio recording some, and I do some woodworking but not much of any of these things lately because of time pressures. Now that I have an opportunity to learn something of personal interest, I discover that my curiosity and my desire to learn new things for the sake of new things is not just overcome with the schedules and tasks of work and family, its gone. Isn't that really sad to say. I have gotten accustomed to researching and learning what I need to know to do my job or to accomplish a task at home. I feel guilty to go off on a tangent when I am on a quest for information that's job or family related because whether right or wrong, personal interests have not been given high priority because it would require time that could be used to get the more pressing tasks of job and home accomplished. So I will take some time to brainstorm some ideas, "surf the 'net", read the blogs of classmates and I'll let you know what the possibilities were and what was decided on. 'Till next time.
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Ron,
ReplyDeleteI sympathize with your journey. I have learned more about technology in the past 9 months than I ever dreamed (nightmared?) about. I have created 10 new accounts (I have learned to use the same password for most, just make sure it's a good one). I am a 'digital immigrant' like you, it's hard work. But I was so proud of myself yesterday. My teenage daughter was whining loudly about Google's new search feature. Results start popping up before you hit enter. I told her to look on the left sidebar for 'options' and turn the search mode off. She was speechless that I knew something she didn't. I won't tell her I learned it from NPR.org! Have you decided where you want this inquiry to take you? I think I will enjoy 'lurking'.
Lisa Smith