Shermie's very first blog!

And this is a whole new world! Not a totally comfortable one either. But, let's see how this goes--

7 1/2 rules for successful lifelong learning:

Easiest:

• Accept responsibility for your own learning--park my butt in the seat, put in the time. It's a given.
• Teach/mentor others--once I understand it myself, showing someone else just reinforces the original lessons.
• Play!--enough said.

Hardest:

• Use technology to your advantage--one of the reasons for doing this to begin with. I didn't grow up with computers, so anything I can learn has to be helpful.
• View problems as a challenge, not a crisis--very difficult when technology is involved. Am I going to erase something? Am I going to crash the system???
• Begin with an end in mind/set goals--sometimes it's more the "dive-in-headfirst-and-see-what-happens-later" technique. This time there are small goals: to learn what blogging is, and to be able to explain it to my mother when she starts navigating the new library software.

Shermie over and out--