August Blog-In
The goal of the “blog-in” is to give a structure and purpose for people to begin exploring the capability and utility of blogs/aggregators in the formation of reasoned discourse. I’ve arbitrarily selected the topic from the list of suggestions from last month.
Logistics:
- Entrants in the blog-in trackback to this post (or leave a comment with a link to your entry).
- I’d like to suggest that initial rounds be posted by August 10, responses and replies by August 20, with summation by August 30.
Topic for the month:
“How do we get members of a community (like the Association for Educational Communications and Technology) communicating with each other using the various technologies that we have available?”
Thanks to Michael Barbour for the topic.
Just between us? I’m not sure this is the right set up, but let’s try it and we can evaluate at the end of the month.
(Technorati tagged with “blog-in”)
July 31st, 2005 at 9:30 pm
August Blog-in Posted
The first monthly blog-in topic has been posted: http://www.durandus.com/blog/?p=132 “How do we get members of a community (like the Association for Educational Communications and Technology) communicating with each other using the various technologi…
August 1st, 2005 at 10:22 am
Since high quality attention-time is our most precious thing,
there needs to be something really important to communicate about.
eg.
Initiatives to make ECT more potent and more globally encompassing-
e.g.
Intellectual property potlach vs. market vs. barter issues
August 1st, 2005 at 8:18 pm
Cognitive Dissonance ? August Blog-In
Link: Cognitive Dissonance ? August Blog-In. “How do we get members of a community (like the Association for Educational Communications and Technology) communicating with each other using the various technologies that we have available?” Ways to …
August 3rd, 2005 at 10:28 am
For me, personally, there is a disjunct between my DESIRE to participate in a variety of divisions and committees within the organization and a NEED to centralize some of the communication. I’m thinking about this as a need to have a one-to-one communication option with my DESIRES, but one-to-many communication option(s) by topic or issue (the NEEDS). For instance, discussions related to the Standards & Accreditation Committee often overlap (or need to overlap) discussions with the Teacher Ed Division, Division of School Media, AECT Board, Def & Terminology Committee, etc. In these types of situations, I find myself frustrated by having to use several modes or tools to communicate the same thoughts. I do not have a solution
I think this IS a struggle for AECT because of our historical (and contemporary) desire to be inclusive in our membership across so many diverse perspectives and applications of our field. I also think this issue is not unlike the organizational leadership issue of who/how many are truly connected to the WORK of the organization. We WANT membership to communicate so they understand the organization better and feel more connected…with a potential result of greater active engagement. If this were easy, every organization would be on top of the solution…obviously, we are not alone in this struggle. That’s my nickel’s worth for now.
August 5th, 2005 at 11:04 pm
I thought I’d toss a
suggestion into the mix.
August 7th, 2005 at 2:33 pm
One response to Kay,
the good thing with the blogging effforts is that they allow us to minimize these tools as you describe.
Blogging lets people cut down on the tools. (at least in my eyes)
I see people struggling to learn the new-ness of the tool and where should I post issues.
Essentially these come down to communication issues.
Not, what do I communicate, but where and when do I communicate.
August 7th, 2005 at 7:29 pm
Educators are in the era of EdWeb 2.0. EdWeb 2.0 is the era where educators are learning to realize it is not the software enabling the web as much as the education delivered over the web. EdWeb 1.0 was the era when people thought we needed to learn applications and software. EdWeb 2.0 is the era when people are recognizing that leadership in the computer industry has passed from traditional software companies to those who use and create that software. The net has replaced the PC as the platform that matters, just as the PC replaced the mainframe and minicomputer.
also posted at http://scottadams.blogs.com/links/2005/08/edweb_20.html
August 8th, 2005 at 11:35 am
My trackback failed. Here are my thoughts.
January 1st, 2006 at 3:34 pm
What is being accomplished?
Nate wrote an entry entitled Happy New Year over at Cognitive Dissonance, where he takes stock of the past year and what he has accomplished with his blog. I thought the idea a good one and decided to do it on some of the blogs that I maintain as well….