Me and the IT!

Has my IT fluency increased? Has it changed or fluctuated? Or did I just realize that I actually get it?

I have finally realized that I dipped my toe into the world of IT a long, long time ago. Now, my head is under the surface as I bob through this world. I may be old, but I knew that when I became a librarian, IT was the world I had to grab hold of and struggle to keep that hold.

I have built WordPress Blogs, messed with Photoshop, and created HTML webpages on more than one occasion. I’ve worked through digital news courses, and understood that Twitter is one of the fastest ways to get to a news story. I have used and managed LibGuides, edited audio files with Audacity, and become a Pinterest addict (I swear, one day, I WILL do all the crafts and ideas I have pinned to my board). Everyday, I am introduced to something new, and if I didn’t have the fortitude to reach forward, I would not be where I am with technology today (completely addicted). I know my shortcomings, I know where my challenges lay, and I know that I always manage to get through it, even if it just scratching the surface.

I am also very good at pretending. While I pretend to understand IT, I discover that I am able to understand it just a bit more than I believed I had before I began to pretend (talk about a roundabout way of learning). Sometimes it is the pretend confidence that allows me to learn and not fear the mistakes that I make.

I refuse to allow myself the belief that I am IT challenged, because if I do, I am sunk.

While my fluency has not necessarily changed, this realization has changed my thinking. I know I have a lot to learn, who doesn’t? Technology changes so swiftly, it can be hard to understand the constant stream of new information coming into our lives.  However, when we stop learning, we stop growing. I for one do not want to stop either, so let the adventure continue.