Learn, Think, Write

I first saw this video via a tweet from Kim Cofino, and here Chris writes more about this generation coming our way.

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That’s it. It’s official. Three of us are heading to Philadelphia to attend the SLA Conference EduCon! I’m so excited to be attending with two of our teachers who are beginning to use technology in their classrooms.
And, I’m really looking forward to the discussions/conversations with so many edubloggers/twitterers I’ve been following. See you there!

I’ve had an attitude adjustment about Twitter.
When I first started using Twitter, it seemed frivolous. I wasn’t following many people, and most seemed to tweet about what they had for breakfast.
Then, I found the edubloggers. Suddenly I was getting wonderful resources and meeting new people. I found myself checking Twitter regularly, and on those days when I couldn’t access it, I spent hours catching up, going back to reread all the tweets–even the tweets from people not following me.  After all, I didn’t want to miss anything!
But recently I’ve been frustrated. For example, I follow Will Richardson, so when he tweeted, needing examples of how people used blogs, I wanted to respond. But Will doesn’t follow me, so I knew if I responded, he wouldn’t get it. Same with Dean Shareski. For a while, Chris Lehmann followed me and then stopped. I had a moment of middle-school angst, but, hey, I’ve stopped following people for one reason or another. I understand we all can’t be all things to all people.
However, I found myself spending more and more time on Twitter and, subsequently, on people’s blogs.
Too much time. I had this overwhelming anxiety that if I didn’t read everything, I would miss whatever the application of the day was, whatever the next cool website was. You know.
So, I’ve had an epiphany.
I realize that if I miss something (even a whole DAY of Twitter), I will eventually get the information in this echo chamber. I may not get it instantly, but within a day or two, someone will post about it!
My new plan is simple.
I follow those people who mostly provide links to resources AND who follow me. I don’t want to have to worry about people with whom I have no connection. And if I miss a few pages of tweets, I’m not going to try to go back and read them all. Life is too short.
Ahhh. I feel better already.

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I’ve been following this photo set from lynetter on flickr. It’s a great collection of photos and quotes about the web. This is what she said:

"I’ve always been fascinated by efforts to map cyberspace… most maps
seem to focus on the physical network connections but the ones I find
the most interesting are those that try to map the diversity and
connections between content. This quote nicely articulates why.

Here is the quote in full: “If you were to make a map of the Web,
showing all the sites and all the links, you would be making a map of
things the 500 million people on the Web find interesting. That’s a lot
different than a map of the real world that shows where the mountains
are and where the oceans end and land begins. The real world map shows
what we humans have been given to work with. The Web shows what we have
chosen to care about.”
Quote comes via Vodafone Receiver www.receiver.vodafone.com/19-what-the-web-is-for in an article written by David Weinberger."

"What we care about" resonates with me as we try to find ways to engender creativity and lifelong learning in our students’ lives.

To see the entire set, click here

[ Photo uploaded on December 9, 2007
by lynetter]