23 Things On A Stick Round 2

Library Assistant Donna Kirchgatter was the only staff member in the first round to finish her 23 Things On A Stick. She received from the regional library system, SELS, a memory stick and a certificate of completion. I have to say that Donna did all of her work at the checkout desk and still kept up with her daily work. Somedays it was more of a challenge than others but she perservered and finished the program.

Staff that has not completed the 23 things in the first round are excitied about learning about Web 2.0 and wanted to know more about Flickr, wikis, My Space, Face Book, Blogger, YouTube, and much more and plan to finish in Round 2.

Round 2 starts May May 15-September 15. This program is open to all staff in any Minnesota library—public, academic, school, or special—as well as members of their Governing Boards, their Friends groups, or Advisory Groups. Even if you do not qualifiy officially you can still work through the programs so that you can have a better understanding of what is out there on the web.

23 Things On a Stick was developed by the seven multitype multicounty library systems as part of the staff development the multitypes offer in their regions. They choose the name for the program in reference to the state fair things on a stick.

A blog http://www.23thingsonastick.blogspot.com/has been set-up as part of the 23 Things on a Stick: A Library Learning 2.0 Program. The 23 Things encourage everyone to experiment and learn about the new and emerging technologies that are changing how information is used and created on the Internet today.