Playing With My Toys
Even though it’s my day off work today, I logged into OPAL to participate in Brenda Hough’s and Michael Porter’s “Top-Notch Technology Training for Patrons” presentation. I got some great ideas for technology training classes to have at MPOW and how to do those classes.
Erica Reynolds made a great comment about library staff getting “tech-time recess” at work, time set aside to just play with tools and toys. Boy, I miss having recess! I think having playtime at work is a fantabulous idea! I think we need to have more play dates, too, where two or more librarians get together and share their new toys.
While I listened, watched and made comments in the presentation, I took notes on Writely. I’ve been wanting to try it for a while, but the train had just left the station by the time I arrived–Google had bought out Writely and closed it off to new sign-ups. But as of yesterday, it’s open again. I registered immediately and started playing with it. So far, I’m really digging it, and I haven’t even started with the collaborative aspects yet.
As far as I’m concerned, we can’t have too much play in libraries.
