To Teach or To Learn?

During the last session of my DIL project the co-ordinator apologised to me because she was feeling that I was not getting enough out of the project. I, however, was feeling quite to the contrary. Although it was true that I was feeling frustrated that I was not being extended I have since realised I was being extended in a different way than I expected.

I had always intended this project to be an exercise in how to effectively mobilise Web 2.0 strategies/tools. However, I ended up learning how to teach. I think I am rather fluent in using on-line tools since they are mostly pretty easy to operate - they are designed this way - and if I find a new tool it won't take me that long to figure out how to use it. Instead, I had experience in passing some of this knowledge onto people who may have had little or no experience with computers. It is great to realise you were learning when you think you weren't - you just need to shift your frame of reference.