It is now only two weeks and a day until the end of term. Finding time to write this blog is difficult. The course has just been sacrificed to work. Others have managed it, but part of the problem lies in my personal reluctance to expose too much of me online. As each of the new things were announced I realised that I am not as enthusiastic as many of my peers at being socially online. I have 11 FB friends and feel no need for any more. I did the LinkedIn thing, updating my profile and found the net result was being approached by people I had never heard of in industries way outside of mine for no reason I could fathom. I am not looking for a job as I have a lovely one, so all these people were rejected. So I am increasingly questioning whether this course is for me.
Perhaps not. I am interested in some of the 'things' but those that enable me to enhance my skill levels and to widen what i can offer our students. I would like to finish this as we are part of BlueSky and it would have been helpful to have been able to add it to my account. Bluesky allows members to record their training/CPD.
If I can find an email address, then I will apply for an extension, otherwise this blog will be deleted and that will be that.
Does anybody else feel uncomfortable with being so public?
Hi Marion,
ReplyDeleteWe would be delighted for you to finish the course. Just fill in this online form for the extension: http://rudai23.blogspot.ie/2015/10/congratulations-if-you-have-finished.html
The idea behind Rudai23 is to give everything a go. But if you don't want to sign up for a new account with something, please write a reflective blog about it. You can look at the topic, explain how you could not see it workng in your library and perhaps make a suggestion on how or what you use instead. We just require you to write a blog for each thing, with your experience of that thing, to gain your certificate. Also, once you have finished the course, you can delete this blog. Or just close it to the public. Alternatively if you contact me directly on Westernlibraries@gmail.com, I can email you instructions on making your blog private and adding me as a reader. So only I will be able to see you posts. Would that make you more comfortable?
Any account you subscribe to, like flickr etc, you can unsubscribe afterwards if you don't find it helpful, if the process is proving difficult you can contact me, or make a comment at the end of the ''Thing'' on the Rudai23 blog and the post writer will get back to you with help also.
Best of luck and I hope that has helped.
Stephanie