I had to laugh at this post. The idea of being able to keep is neigh impossible. There are thousands of new widgets, tools, software, webapps per year. However, by having a high interest and the willingness to try new programs one can at least be on the front end of things.
I attribute on-line tool development to be sort of like writing novels. 90% of them are terrible, they are written poorly, bad plot etc. So you have to wade through all the bad books before you find the gems. The same is true for new computer technology and development.
By continuing to challenge ones self and trying to utilize the tools found in the classroom puts you on par with the person who likes a genre of literature and so reads everything they can. They put down a lot of books, finish others but don't like... but with the ones they really like, they spread the word.
That is sort of our charge. We need to pick up that new piece of software, try that new application and most of them we will uninstall, or stop using. But the few that we find and really like we will spread the word. No matter how good we are at doing this, a colleage will find something that we missed and share it with us. Thus that sharing (thus the usefulness of comunicating via e-mail or network sites like ning).
Keeping up is about:
- trying
- evaluating
- sharing
- staying on line
- comunicating
I promise that I will continue to do all of these things and more.
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