Wow. Today is the day we begin to post our thoughts and findings about all we are learning from our Big Experiment, the 20 for 2.0 training. This will be a departure from the Disney part of the blog, so if you came here looking for Disney info, let's get that out of the way first.
The best single place I've found to go for Disney information is by a fellow named Ricky Brigante, who has a weekly podcast called "Inside the Magic". Ricky lives in the Orlando area, so his main discussion is about Disney World, but each week he will also tell what is happening in Disneyland, including refurbishments, etc. You can get more information at the link below:
http://www.distantcreations.com/insidethemagic/
Now, to 20 for 2.0 thoughts:
I'm no computer expert to be sure, but I can usually find my way around with a bit of assistance here and there. So far, in the first three weeks, many of the staff in the branch where I work have found the instructions to be confusing. We spend a good amount of time pooling our ignorance until we ask the one person in our branch with the unofficial moniker 'most likely to know computer junk'. This method of learning is frustrating at times. For example, in the instructions for lesson 3, we are told, "To use the log, simply sign in with your staff I.D. in the same way you access other Intranet applications such as Tech Reports and RINC. Once you’ve signed into the log you can mark off the things you’ve completed, add the permalink for your blog posting, and then click submit to save your progress." However, we are not given the link for how to accomplish that for four more paragraphs. Some of my co-workers and I spent a good bit of time trying to look on the Intranet for the progress log. It wasn't until we asked yet another co-worker before we discovered that if we read to the bottom of the page before we attempt to do anything, the link is there.
Besides isssues of understanding the basic instructions, the training is going just fine. I would also say that many of us just don't find the time available at work for this project. I added my pictures to my post from my home computer. This is because the blogger only lets me add pictures from certain sites, such as flickr, and my pictures are not posted on a website, but rather housed in a computer file at home. I understand that before we're finished, that situation may change.
I wish I had more availability to the blogs of my coworkers and the time to check in with some of them from time to time, but maybe as we progress we can find a way to make that happen. I'm sure we would all learn a lot!
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Agree with you about the clarity of the instructions - for staff who are really brand new to all of this, it can be confusing. I've learned from working with library customers that I need to quickly scan an entire web page before I try to help them (usually with a site I've never seen before), so that's what I've been doing with these 2.0 assignments. I've also heard from other staff that it's difficult to find time to complete these assignments. You may be wondering why there are 2 comments that I've deleted - I found typing mistakes in them, but couldn't find a way to correct them with an edit function, so I deleted them (another learning experience).
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