Summary of the 23 Things

Overall I have enjoyed learning to use the 23 Things. As I am not always the most technology savvy individual, I was surprised by the amount of Things I had already used quite frequently on the Web, like Flickr, YouTube, image generators, podcasts and blogging. Despite this, I enjoyed many new things that I was not aware of, such as the Flickr mashups and App Garden, Technorati, and Rollyo. I also signed up for new feeds on my bloglines account and plan to use this more in the future for my place to go for news, since I don't have television. It's wonderful to centralize all of the blogs you would like to keep up with on one location. After all, I will need to go somewhere to keep updated on all the technology changes that are happening. I plan to play around with many of the more unfamiliar 23 Things over the winter break, and I hope that in the future there will be more updated Learning 2.0 programs to help build on what I have already learned. I particularly like this online format for learning by completing the "Discovery Exercises" under each Thing because as you really use this new technology and try new things the Web's capabilities become slightly less overwhelming and much more fun.