More on the Connectivism Conference….
Today I attended Diana Oblinger’s session “Balancing Agility and Stability in Higher Education“. I was only able to catch parts of it because of some chaotic confusion in my school - a water main had broken down the street and school was being dismissed three hours early (talk about much celebration on the part of the students!). It was a little distracting….
The chat room once again contained some rich dialogue and sharing of opinions, information and resources. Diana’s presentation included a good deal of very interesting statistics about Internet usage, who was using what tools and for what purpose. I look forward to hearing the presentation again when not so distracted and viewing the ppt slides again as well.
The moodle environment is very busy with activity. All the new posts to the forums are being fed to my inbox and it is getting hits about every ten minutes it seems! I have been trying to follow some of the threads, but it will take some time to go through everything! Certainly we will all be chewing on the material for months to come.
One thread that caught my eye contained a reference to Christopher Sessum’s School 2.0 Manifesto - dated January 31 2007. It is just incredible and I want to get out the word about it!
How refreshing it is to hear other educators take such powerful and potentially controversial stances! Kudos to Christopher!
The Future does indeed begin NOW!
I welcome your thoughts and comments about this post.
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