Comments for Teaching Generation Z http://gwegner.edublogs.org Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:16:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on Become An LA20 Blog Coach by Do we want to be that safe? « Random Thoughts http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2008/03/05/become-an-la20-blog-coach/#comment-13756 Do we want to be that safe? « Random Thoughts Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:41:20 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2008/03/05/become-an-la20-blog-coach/#comment-13756 [...] by Nancy I got an email from Graham today telling me that he was going to have to hold off on his Blog Coach plan. If you have been reading about Al Upton’s blog closure, you can probably understand [...] [...] by Nancy I got an email from Graham today telling me that he was going to have to hold off on his Blog Coach plan. If you have been reading about Al Upton’s blog closure, you can probably understand [...]

]]> Comment on Grassroots Global Collaboration by Trudy Sweeney http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2007/10/06/grassroots-global-collaboration/#comment-13754 Trudy Sweeney Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:05:39 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2007/10/06/grassroots-global-collaboration/#comment-13754 This is a really insightful blog post Graham. Sitting here at the blogging lounge at NECC I think this is an excellent example of reflective practice and about your experiment. Thank you for your insights and I am sure that the group I present to will appreciate your honest sharing of the difficulties and value of global collaboration. Kepp up the wonderful efforts! This is a really insightful blog post Graham. Sitting here at the blogging lounge at NECC I think this is an excellent example of reflective practice and about your experiment. Thank you for your insights and I am sure that the group I present to will appreciate your honest sharing of the difficulties and value of global collaboration. Kepp up the wonderful efforts!

]]> Comment on A Place To Call Your Own by Michael Coghlan http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2008/06/26/a-place-to-call-your-own/#comment-13753 Michael Coghlan Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:34:57 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/?p=599#comment-13753 Love the way these images tell a story Graham. Years ago I tried to get a group in a discussion forum to communicate via images....to that end: I get it: http://flickr.com/photos/phinaphantasy/1797951401/ I don't get it: http://flickr.com/photos/nelsonlai/1258727102/ :) Love the way these images tell a story Graham. Years ago I tried to get a group in a discussion forum to communicate via images….to that end:

I get it: http://flickr.com/photos/phinaphantasy/1797951401/
I don’t get it: http://flickr.com/photos/nelsonlai/1258727102/

:)

]]> Comment on A Place To Call Your Own by alexanderhayes http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2008/06/26/a-place-to-call-your-own/#comment-13751 alexanderhayes Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:01:56 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/?p=599#comment-13751 Hi Graham, The banality of moral barbituates seem to have got the better of you :) Best you build bridges in the open fields and let others tend to the stack of disclaimers amidst the carnage of aggressive openess. Hi Graham,

The banality of moral barbituates seem to have got the better of you :)

Best you build bridges in the open fields and let others tend to the stack of disclaimers amidst the carnage of aggressive openess.

]]> Comment on A Place To Call Your Own by Chris http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2008/06/26/a-place-to-call-your-own/#comment-13750 Chris Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:25:57 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/?p=599#comment-13750 Great choice of images Graham. I get that same feeling at places like me.edu.au... it feels contrived and limiting and forced. I joined me.edu.au when it started but I have to say I've rarely been back. Maybe that's selling it short without giving it a chance, but even in the short time I played there it felt a bit like dancing with your sister... I think the problem is that there is no ownership there. It belongs to someone else who is wanting to create a community. A noble goal, but that's not how communities grow. Thanks again for the images. Chris Great choice of images Graham. I get that same feeling at places like me.edu.au… it feels contrived and limiting and forced. I joined me.edu.au when it started but I have to say I’ve rarely been back. Maybe that’s selling it short without giving it a chance, but even in the short time I played there it felt a bit like dancing with your sister…

I think the problem is that there is no ownership there. It belongs to someone else who is wanting to create a community. A noble goal, but that’s not how communities grow.

Thanks again for the images.

Chris

]]> Comment on A Place To Call Your Own by Nick Lothian http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2008/06/26/a-place-to-call-your-own/#comment-13749 Nick Lothian Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:49:47 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/?p=599#comment-13749 Re moving fast - I suspect you'll find we all saw your post via me.edu.au - that was certinaly the case for me. "Is the goal to get educators without much social media experience up and running or is it trying to attract those of us already out “free-ranging” on the web to one spot to be in one Aussie education community?" Yes to the first, a big no to the second (from me at least). The web is so much bigger an richer than one single site can ever hope to be - we'd be deluding ourselves if we thought me.edu.au could ever be a substitute for that richness. However we hope that me.edu.au will become a useful resource even for those who know there way around the web. As far as the me.edu.au blog replicating a feature that is already available - yes, that's true, and no doubt we'll add other things that are available elsewhere, too - but we always think very carefully about the reasons we are doing it. In the case of blogging, we found that people were trying to use their own whiteboard as a broadcast mechanism to tell people what they were doing, and so we wanted to try and make that easier and work better. Making it integrated makes it a lot easier for beginning users, too. Re moving fast - I suspect you’ll find we all saw your post via me.edu.au - that was certinaly the case for me.

“Is the goal to get educators without much social media experience up and running or is it trying to attract those of us already out “free-ranging” on the web to one spot to be in one Aussie education community?”

Yes to the first, a big no to the second (from me at least). The web is so much bigger an richer than one single site can ever hope to be - we’d be deluding ourselves if we thought me.edu.au could ever be a substitute for that richness. However we hope that me.edu.au will become a useful resource even for those who know there way around the web.

As far as the me.edu.au blog replicating a feature that is already available - yes, that’s true, and no doubt we’ll add other things that are available elsewhere, too - but we always think very carefully about the reasons we are doing it. In the case of blogging, we found that people were trying to use their own whiteboard as a broadcast mechanism to tell people what they were doing, and so we wanted to try and make that easier and work better. Making it integrated makes it a lot easier for beginning users, too.

]]> Comment on dear ken by Please No, Not Ms. Gesler! » CogDogBlog http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2008/06/21/dear-ken/#comment-13748 Please No, Not Ms. Gesler! » CogDogBlog Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:48:34 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/?p=598#comment-13748 [...] linkribution across the seas to Graham Wegner if (typeof window.Delicious == "undefined") window.Delicious = {}; Delicious.BLOGBADGE_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'delicious-blogbadge-line'; [...] [...] linkribution across the seas to Graham Wegner if (typeof window.Delicious == “undefined”) window.Delicious = {}; Delicious.BLOGBADGE_DEFAULT_CLASS = ‘delicious-blogbadge-line’; [...]

]]> Comment on A Place To Call Your Own by Graham Wegner http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2008/06/26/a-place-to-call-your-own/#comment-13747 Graham Wegner Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:20:04 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/?p=599#comment-13747 Wow, you educationau types move fast. I do realise that I can patch in links to my blog and compared to many who I've added to "My Colleagues" list I am a reasonably regular visitor to me.edu.au. I suppose I just don't quite yet get how to connect to others within that interface - especially when compared to the ease of using Google Reader, twitter or just watching my del.icio.us network tag a fast moving stream of links. I want to share ideas, resources and experiences - I think that the big attraction of much social media is how easy it is to customise and personalise. I look at your new blog, John, and I see much less flexibility, dare I say it, less personality than your old blogspot or edublogs venues. Is it really a key ingredient to have a blog attached to me.edu.au? To use Kerrie's phrase, "the new kid on the block" fascinates and frustrates me in equal proportions. Is the goal to get educators without much social media experience up and running or is it trying to attract those of us already out "free-ranging" on the web to one spot to be in one Aussie education community? I want this idea to be successful - if nothing else, it won't go away overnight. (Not that James will pull the edublogs plug without warning!) But I guess I'm wondering why the goal is to replicate much of what is already available on the www. I find I'm learning less and less from my immediate colleagues in my hometown while the generosity of strangers who I will never meet just blows me away. It would be interesting to know how many of the me.edu.au members have enabled their blog, added RSS feeds or moved beyond adding a brief note on their whiteboard. I just hope it's not a "Field Of Dreams" scenario - build it and they will come. Trust me, I would love to be involved in a bustling community within this toolset and I will keep my toes in the water. I think it says something about the digital literacy of much of our teaching force, unfortunately. Wow, you educationau types move fast. I do realise that I can patch in links to my blog and compared to many who I’ve added to “My Colleagues” list I am a reasonably regular visitor to me.edu.au. I suppose I just don’t quite yet get how to connect to others within that interface - especially when compared to the ease of using Google Reader, twitter or just watching my del.icio.us network tag a fast moving stream of links. I want to share ideas, resources and experiences - I think that the big attraction of much social media is how easy it is to customise and personalise. I look at your new blog, John, and I see much less flexibility, dare I say it, less personality than your old blogspot or edublogs venues. Is it really a key ingredient to have a blog attached to me.edu.au?

To use Kerrie’s phrase, “the new kid on the block” fascinates and frustrates me in equal proportions. Is the goal to get educators without much social media experience up and running or is it trying to attract those of us already out “free-ranging” on the web to one spot to be in one Aussie education community? I want this idea to be successful - if nothing else, it won’t go away overnight. (Not that James will pull the edublogs plug without warning!) But I guess I’m wondering why the goal is to replicate much of what is already available on the http://www. I find I’m learning less and less from my immediate colleagues in my hometown while the generosity of strangers who I will never meet just blows me away.

It would be interesting to know how many of the me.edu.au members have enabled their blog, added RSS feeds or moved beyond adding a brief note on their whiteboard. I just hope it’s not a “Field Of Dreams” scenario - build it and they will come. Trust me, I would love to be involved in a bustling community within this toolset and I will keep my toes in the water. I think it says something about the digital literacy of much of our teaching force, unfortunately.

]]> Comment on A Place To Call Your Own by John Travers http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2008/06/26/a-place-to-call-your-own/#comment-13746 John Travers Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:26:03 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/?p=599#comment-13746 Great and evocative images Graham. I thought you were selling edublogs short until I read your text and saw that you have a nice romantic story about rural connectedness: the satellite dish must be behind the tree. I think it is sensibly 'selfish' for you to be very comfortable with you large network that you have in edublogs. I guess we are all interested in getting more teachers connected. A nice aspect of the me.edu.au experience is that the blog is part of a group of services and search allows people to connect to them all. So a mention of hopscotch in a blog can be found along with references to hopscotch in a community or a whiteboard. The hard part of blogging seems to be getting establihsed and maybe beginners will be comfortable in a space that brings chalkies together. But of course, thre are many paths to salvation. Great and evocative images Graham. I thought you were selling edublogs short until I read your text and saw that you have a nice romantic story about rural connectedness: the satellite dish must be behind the tree.
I think it is sensibly ’selfish’ for you to be very comfortable with you large network that you have in edublogs. I guess we are all interested in getting more teachers connected. A nice aspect of the me.edu.au experience is that the blog is part of a group of services and search allows people to connect to them all. So a mention of hopscotch in a blog can be found along with references to hopscotch in a community or a whiteboard.
The hard part of blogging seems to be getting establihsed and maybe beginners will be comfortable in a space that brings chalkies together. But of course, thre are many paths to salvation.

]]> Comment on A Place To Call Your Own by Kerrie http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2008/06/26/a-place-to-call-your-own/#comment-13745 Kerrie Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:22:14 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/?p=599#comment-13745 It is pretty obvious too that the sense of community comes from 2 way interaction and me.edu.au is the new kid on the block It is pretty obvious too that the sense of community comes from 2 way interaction and me.edu.au is the new kid on the block

]]>