Comments on: Flat Out http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2007/05/16/flat-out/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Graham Wegner http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2007/05/16/flat-out/comment-page-1/#comment-11841 Graham Wegner Thu, 17 May 2007 12:22:22 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2007/05/16/flat-out/#comment-11841 Cheers, John. The post was partially inspired by the cross-conversation we had at our table in the afternoon at Jimmy Wales. My sentence on priorities is paraphrasing straight from your mouth. I think you're right - there's something for everyone online - they will probably say that they've just found some cool thing that is unreal - and never realise that they've stumbled into Web 2.0. Cheers, John. The post was partially inspired by the cross-conversation we had at our table in the afternoon at Jimmy Wales. My sentence on priorities is paraphrasing straight from your mouth. I think you’re right – there’s something for everyone online – they will probably say that they’ve just found some cool thing that is unreal – and never realise that they’ve stumbled into Web 2.0.

]]> By: John Travers http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2007/05/16/flat-out/comment-page-1/#comment-11840 John Travers Thu, 17 May 2007 12:12:48 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2007/05/16/flat-out/#comment-11840 It certainly is easy to get despondent Graham when you are sure that teachers would be as excited as we are if they would only get involved! But if wonder if we just need to be patient (for a bit longer). These days most teachers seem to be booking airline flights online and banking online and if they haven't already done so, have a second computer at home instead of thinking about getting their first. So they are being won over to the IT world not by their school experiences but by just living in the wider society. I was delighted this week to be introduced to a great Web 2.0 site www.librarything.com which is a great big book-club, with about 190,000 members all recording their books read, communicating in groups, examining their tags and other people's and reading and writing reviews. I think the power of thoroughly enjoyable and useful sites like this are more powerful than a bunch of expensive professional development sessions. Once you have joined a site like this you know what web 2.0 is about: you don't have to be lectured to. It is only a small step then to see the potential in education, and the inevitability of children joining this world. You can see my sad/noble library at johntrav on librarything! It certainly is easy to get despondent Graham when you are sure that teachers would be as excited as we are if they would only get involved! But if wonder if we just need to be patient (for a bit longer). These days most teachers seem to be booking airline flights online and banking online and if they haven’t already done so, have a second computer at home instead of thinking about getting their first. So they are being won over to the IT world not by their school experiences but by just living in the wider society.

I was delighted this week to be introduced to a great Web 2.0 site http://www.librarything.com which is a great big book-club, with about 190,000 members all recording their books read, communicating in groups, examining their tags and other people’s and reading and writing reviews. I think the power of thoroughly enjoyable and useful sites like this are more powerful than a bunch of expensive professional development sessions. Once you have joined a site like this you know what web 2.0 is about: you don’t have to be lectured to. It is only a small step then to see the potential in education, and the inevitability of children joining this world. You can see my sad/noble library at johntrav on librarything!

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