Comments for Theoretical Junk

Comment on Dear Mom: Web 2.0 at Overnight Summer Camp by Cole

Cole — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:11:18 +0000

I’ve been watching the golden slipper camp site for a couple of weeks … looks like so much fun and I am so impressed with how you’ve been working to bring technology into the camp world. Keep it cranking and I hope to read more over the next few weeks.

Comment on Density and Microvideo by Robin2go

Robin2go — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:53:01 +0000

First, I am thrilled to have stumbled across another online presence for you. While I had been following your PSU blog, it basically left me hanging at the end of CI 597. I applaud your work with Golden Slipper Camp and getting the kids to use podcasting (yep, still follow you on Twitter) and I think it’s a brilliant use of teaching with technology in the real world!

Second, Flickr’s :90 videos really are a perfect snack size component to communication. While I call it microvlogging (and I promise, I won’t steal yours) I still look for ways to use it on my own in an educational sense. Some users I know are posting small instructional videos that answer blog reader questions about Photoshop; others are posting “My thoughts in :90″ videos simply using a digital camera. As these novel methods continue to emerge, I am continually intrigued by how easy it has become to have influence on others.

I think as a community, we tend to process these smaller bits more comfortably, more easily, by the very fact they require less time, energy, and focus. I’ve always said that it isn’t the use of technology that is the end result; it’s using technology as a tool to get our ideas out to those we wish to reach that is (or should be) the desired result. Technology isn’t the message, it’s only how the message is relayed. Ten years ago I’d never have thought I’d be podcasting and posting videos to my local community. Using twitterized video, however, seems to be a perfect component to learning.

Comment on Community – Synthesis Always Satisfies (or is it Snickers?) by rubywahoo

rubywahoo — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:58:20 +0000

Thanks for showing me the site, Teachers Planet. I joined, and even created a group for teachers interested in Disruptive/Emerging Technologies. I look forward to meeting more of the group!

-BR

Comment on Community – Synthesis Always Satisfies (or is it Snickers?) by Teachers Planet

Teachers Planet — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:38:55 +0000

I like your blog and would like to invite you, to join http://teachersplanet.ning.com It is an online community for teachers of all levels and curriculum areas.Your visit to the network will provide an opportunity for you to share your expertise with our teachers.At teachers planet you can start your own groups, start/participate in a discussion/ forum, add videos, music, RSS feeds, start blogs and do many more things. Thank you for your time and consideration

Comment on PS I apologize to the Have-nots by ELISEBETH CONNOLLY BOYER

ELISEBETH CONNOLLY BOYER — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:36:53 +0000

You have been tagged! Check out my blog entry for the rules! http://www.personal.psu.edu/ecs184/blogs/psugal/2008/04/#007524

Comment on Survivor: Web2.0, and the Twitter Community Challenge by COLE W. CAMPLESE

COLE W. CAMPLESE — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:11:02 +0000

We are working with Lessig on getting the full on Keynote stack timed to his voice. Stay tuned! Thanks for the many kind words!

Comment on Survivor: Web2.0, and the Twitter Community Challenge by SHANNON RITTER

SHANNON RITTER — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:00:36 +0000

Hey Brandon! This is a great blog post and it was great to meet you at TLT. I am absolutely following your twitter stream now so that we’re able to stay connected even after TLT is finished for this year!

Comment on Tweet Talk 1, Edited by ELISEBETH CONNOLLY BOYER

ELISEBETH CONNOLLY BOYER — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:34:41 +0000

Great work! Worth the listen imho

Comment on A Sense of Virtual Community by ELISEBETH CONNOLLY BOYER

ELISEBETH CONNOLLY BOYER — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:30:24 +0000

It’s getting late right now but I am interested in this – I’ll read and post more later. Thanks for the info!

Comment on Should a cop ever say to you “Sir (or Ma’am), please identify yourself…” by DONNA MARION DENOBLE

DONNA MARION DENOBLE — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:59:09 +0000

Why yes, I face the identity dichotomy every day. In the teaching community I was thought of as a leader in the field, and in academia, a member of the novitiate in the research community. Multiple personality disorder comes to mind as I struggle to shelve the old person practitioner “filters” as I view new concepts, while trying to give birth to the infant researcher struggling to emerge from the womb. Identity is a fleeting thing, hard to pin down, and drives what we believe about ourselves and about what we can do. Perhaps multiple identities on the web are not really that much different than the integrated selves we are in daily life. It is easier to separate them in virtual reality and compartmentalize oneself. In real life we are who we are, and although we appear not to be what others want us to be, maybe we are indeed so…
As teachers or teacher educators, or camp directors, it takes all of the identities to work together in integrated mode to perform the multitude of tasks required to help learners actualize.

How do we develop these identities in teacher candidates and how do we teach them when to integrate and how much? Where does the identity with experience fit among the multitudes of research articles? How can we expect teachers to use these new technologies if they perceive their identity as a techno-phobe, and possess all the related feelings, attitudes and beliefs about self in that way? Should we, as early adopters, help other teachers to form an identity that ecologically fits with the Web 2.0 environment?

As Scott would say, “I’m just sayin”