My Professional Development Today

“OK, back to reality. I said in my previous post that I'd really like to see blogs used for professional development but I don't believe it will happen anytime soon. I want to make it clear that I have absolutely no doubts about the power of blogging for learning. I just want it to happen sooner and realistically that probably is not going to happen. At least not soon enough for me.

But meanwhile I'm going to keep dreaming, keep learning, keep blogging, work at being a lot more disruptive and keep reading blogs till we can collectively figure out answers to bring about needed changes in education. And oh yes, thanks to Jenny, Will, Lila, Steven, Jessamyn, Michael, and others who provided my professional development today. It was great and here I am at almost 10:00 PM tonight still learning. I did the picking and it was great!” [EduBlog Insights]

And that’s why we blog.

Dang – Chris DeWeese beat me to the punch and added AIM presence indicators to the Lewis & Clark Library System staff directory. Even though he’s using ASP code to run his own web service for this, I’m suuuuuuuure he’ll explain a little about it on his blog and maybe even give some suggestions for other options.  ;-)  Since LCLS Director Tina Hubert is on IM, I’ll also note that MLS Director Alice Calabrese (my boss) is on AIM as well. I wonder if there are any other ILSDOians on IM? I think Alice and Tina are setting great examples for their member libraries.

Anyway, nice job, Chris, and welcome to the blogosphere!