I started the 23 Things programme back in February, and I am quite pleased with how it has gone. The web tools I have experienced as part of the programme are:
- iGoogle
Word cloud from wordle.net - Blogging
- RSS feeds & readers
- FlickR & Picnik
- Delicious
- Podcasting & Youtube
- Facebook & LinkedIn
- Wikis
- Google Documents & ThinkFree Office
- Widgets
I think the most useful of these, and the ones I am likely to keep using in the future, are blogging, Twitter, Google Docs, and perhaps the iGoogle page.
I think a blog is a great way to keep track of what you’ve been up to, and to be reflective about it too. Blogging about these Things has helped me get the confidence to start blogging properly; if I feel I don’t have anything interesting to say, I can fall back on doing the next Thing on the list! (Perhaps I’ll start doing 23cpd just to carry this safety net on!)
The same can be said of Twitter, really. I used it before, but not nearly to the extent I do now. As for Google Docs, I can see it being very handy indeed for group work during my MA.
It has been interesting to compare my thoughts and views of the web tools with the other trainees, and to read back over the past participant’s blogs too. I think at the start I was expecting to know everything straight away about the tools, but I actually learned a lot of new useful information about them. I’m glad I took part, as even if I don’t use all of them that often, at least I have a ground knowledge of them, and will recognise when they might just be the perfect thing to use.
Yay, well done for finishing! I’m tempted by cpd23 for the same reasons…haven’t taken the plunge yet though.