...well, to be honest, just one of the reasons Gardner Campbell is so cool. Take a look at his reflections on the final keynote and the twitter back channel backlash that ran alongside.
http://www.gardnercampbell.net/blog1/?p=583
A masterclass in thinking carefully and not letting ego get in the way of constructive analysis (aka how to get other people to have a higher opinion of you than you have of yourself)
Challenged by how to teach reflection to students? - just subscribe to Gardner's blog
btw - I just remembered I was going to send link to Serena's short film - I had problems with it on my laptop but it seems OK on the other machines in our house so here it is, enjoy!:
http://www.serenae.com/filmpull.htm
Also, whilst you're there, you might want to check out the other things on her website to get a flavour of her other interests - impressive, hu'h?
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Another interesting (and thoughtful) review of ELI and the future of..er...well...our universe.
How can we pull together the collective wisdoms swarming around ELI to inform our future plans and SHU? And if we can, should we?
http://lanny-on-learn-tech.blogspot.com/2008/02/kindle-reviewthoughts-about-eli.html
he *is* an exceptionally cool human being! it's strange but fascinating to read this reflection (i'll confess to some excrutiating cringing moments on reading the twitter stream) - when he spoke at an eli session in 2006, he and the other presenters were all very aware that probably 75% of the room had laptops, and many of those were blogging/ contributing to a wiki in realtime, and the sense that there's no place to hide in web2.0 was very strong. i think the difference there, though, was the fact that individuals were posting their individual reflections either to individual blogs, or to a shared wiki that had been set up especially - so it's interesting to see how synchronous, group communication (whether sanctioned or not) can soon spiral. so i wonder what this means for the fear2.0 prevalent amongst some teaching staff, and how can we use experiences like this to create guidance about how to interact, how to handle situations like this, etc?
argh! simultaneous commenting! :)
ok, posted my earlier comment too soon: just read the post and comments here - and a much more eloquent and interesting summary of someone's reaction to the final keynote twittering. there's an interesting comment from someone who didn't attend the conference who found the pre-keynote twittering "smart, funny, deep, interesting"; however, the minute the backlash started, it left her feeling "stunned" and "disconnected", and wondering whether the twitter community (or, "the twits" - which made me laugh, but just think of roald dahl) weren't providing a commentary of an event, but creating "an event not of that moment".
like what i tried to say, only betterer and more cleverer.
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