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Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:3648] How do you learn about technology
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NIFL-Technology Colleagues,
At the Centre for Literacy recent Summer Institute on Technology (in
Montreal) a question occurred to me which may be of interest to you:
How do you learn about technology?
That is, how do you learn about new applications, how do you keep up
with change, how do you actually learn how to use new applications
(or learn to use old ones better) and to make them comfortable tools?
Here are a couple of answers, posted to the Summer Institute wiki, to
get us started. I hope many of you will add your own. I think this
would be useful "professional development" for all of us if we all
contribute.
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I come from a technology background. I tend to gravitate toward
online groups of people with common interests. Currently, I am a
contributor to a group called code4lib. They have a wiki too! (http://
wiki.inkdroid.org/code4lib/)
--Brian Cassidy (http://www.nald.ca/BOARD/staff/brian.htm)
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1. Trial and error
2. Get a "techno-buddy", someone who knows more than you do, but who
can also talk about technology in "plain language" and who would be
readily available to answer your questions in person, by e-mail or
phone.
3. Use the product's online help.
4. Call the product's telephone helpline.
5. Join a tech support group.
6. When all else fails, resort to reading the manual. This is not
always possible, however. Sometimes software and hardware comes with
a digital-only manual (not hard copy) and it's not easy to find.
--Djrosen 08:48, 29 Jun 2005 (ADT)
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David J. Rosen
djrosen@comcast.net
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