Thing # 23 Is this really the end?

Reflections on the 23 Things…

Try as I might it often takes more than 15 minutes (from start to finish) to put together a quality blog.

If no one is actually reading the blog perhaps I shouldn’t worry too much about quality.

At first, I thought this was geared toward those of us who hadn’t already discovered Flickr, RSS feeds, YouTube, etc. But after dropping a little bit of cynicism it was fun to jump in and get with the program.

By trying to make some blog cartoons I learned some extra stuff about downloading programs to convert images to different file formats (ex: pdf to jpg).

If we did something similar again, it would be fun to see how in depth we could go. Rather than skimming the surface by “discovering” elements of 2.0 perhaps we take more time to work toward how we can creatively apply things to our work.

I liked how the “Things” weren’t really assignments so much as discovering what you want within a certain framework.

If you take a good idea (43 Things You or I Might Want to Do This Year), refine it (boil it down to 23 Things and create learning activities), then allow others to copy and use your idea for free you end up with a very popular program. Seriously, try Googling “23 Things” and you’ll see how many libraries jumped in. Seth Godin would be proud.