Well, I'm getting off to a bit of a rocky start! For those who don't know me, I'm deaf, and apparently I've been missing some things during the lunches...like what we're supposed to be doing! LOL (read: laugh out loud)! So, I'm trying to get all caught up! For our first "assignment", we are supposed to watch the lifelong learning video and give our feedback on the easiest and hardest of the habits for ourselves, they we are supposed to create our own Learning Contract. So, let's get started!
7 and 1/2 Habits...
The video (located here) lists the following 7 and 1/2 habits of successful lifelong learners:- Begin with the end in mind (i.e., developing goals, and I imagine STICKING to them! LOL)
- Accept responsibility for your own learning (i.e., actively pursue knowledge and don't just expect folks to hand it to you)
- View problems as challenges (this means mind change for most!)
- Have confidence in yourself as a learner
- Create your own learning toolbox
- Use technology to your advantage
- Teach and mentor others
- Play!
I'm a pessimist by nature, so if something goes wrong, I get a "doomed" mentality automatically. The past couple years I've made great progress in this, but I feel like I still have a ways to go...but I'm getting there!
The Learning Contract
Next, we needed to make a "learning contract" with ourselves. I'm putting mine up here so all y'all can see. I decided that for this series of brown bag lunches, I want to look at how Web 2.0 can help or hurt communication for the deaf and blind. "Web 1.0" was a Godsend for us "deafies" who have a difficult time communicating verbally, but there have been a few Web2.0 things already I've come across that leave me (and other deaf folks) out!Goal: How do web 2.0 tools aid the deaf and/or blind? Or do they provide a bigger hindrance than web 1.0?
Obstacles: Could be that web 2.0 is really too knew to assess disability accommodations accurately. Could be that since I’m deaf, I may run into problems with accommodations.
Toolbox: Access to the internet. Feedback from someone who is blind (my old roommate!) . Feedback from someone who is deaf (ME!).
Resources: Not sure at this point. Any ideas?
Path to goal:
1. view “syllabus”
2. think about each weeks assignments and discussions and how they can relate to disability accommodations.
3. Get feedback from ex-roomie
Check in: I will come back to my learning contract each week of the lunches to see how it could be revised.
Sign here: [this is me digitally signing my learning contract]
Well, that's it! Let me know what you think!
1 comment:
hi, Erin, this is Kate!!
I don't know of any resources to suggest because unfortunately I really don't know anything about either library services or the internet services for deaf & blind folks. I wonder if the Library Lit database would have any articles...or the usability literature, for a non-library perspective.
One hallmark of 2.0 stuff is that often the code of specific applications (like flickr) is shared, so other people can play around with it and adapt it (that's where all those flickr mash-ups come from). So maybe that could be a benefit to the deaf & blind communities, if some tools/applications are more open, so they can be adapted by those who have the programming ability.
On the other hand, a greater reliance on images and videos and podcasts definitely presents problems. Maybe libraries should have policies about providing written transcripts of podcasts?
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