Exercise #2

Lifelong Learning

Learning keeps life interesting--at work, home, and at play. One of the reasons to participate in the Summer of 2.0 program is to learn new about some new skills and tools that can enable you to explore your own interests online. Of course these tools are useful for the work environment, too! Lifelong learning is a continual process. I hope that this program will contribute to your own personal and professional development. It makes sense that before embarking on this new online learning and discovery journey that we should take a few minutes to review a few habits that can assist in creating lifelong learners.

These habits, called the Seven and 1/2 Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners, will provide you with a refresher on what it means to be a lifelong learner.

***Please note: The tutorial was created by Lori Reed at Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. At the end of the tutorial, she invites her staff to send questions and comments to the We Value Your Opinion Link. This goes to her at PLCMC. Please do not use this link. Instead, add a post to your blog about what you think about the tutorial (you will create your blog in step #3, although you may have started already!!).

Discovery Exercise:

1. Make sure you have headphones or speakers attached to your computer.
2. Open up the 7 & 1/2 Habits online tutorial and view the online tutorial.
   
3. As you watch and listen, write down which habit among the 7 & 1/2 that is easiest for you and which is hardest. You will use your personal blog (which you will set up next as part of exercise #3) to post your thoughts about lifelong learning.