Summary

I thoroughly enjoyed Betty Blogger summer school.

I would upgrade my knowledge of web 2.0 and its applications to a 6 or 6.5 out of 10 from a 2 out of 10 at the start. There are still some applications that I am unfamiliar with such as Twitter. Also I  need to do some more exploring of the ones covered in the summer school to become a more proficient user.  But I certainly learned a tremendous amount during these past six weeks.

Betty Blogger summer school did exceed my expectations with its wide variety of tasks and how well it was run.

The Library Lady also exceeded my expectations. She was very approachable, helpful and enthusiastic  and always provided timely and encouraging feedback as tasks were completed.

The most challenging part of Betty Blogger was probably when the instructions given to us in Task #6: Productivity Tools - Google Docs did not work since Google had made a new version. This was just a minor blip though as the Library Lady helped us to work around it.

I found the self-directed learning model very successful.  I could work at my own pace which I appreciated given other commitments during the summer.  I really enjoyed exploring things that interested me in each application so that I could more fully understand the application, its pros and cons and whether it would be useful to me in the future.  Also it was so much fun to view other participants' blog posts from how they set up their blogs (background used, blog names, photos, gadgets, etc) to their experiences with each application and of course some wonderful recipes.  I also liked  the comments which made the summer school quite interactive.

Yes, I most definitely would recommend the Better Blogger summer school to a friend. Two thumbs up!!!