Learning rewards: Watching others sharing what they learn

Today, Melissa Ring and Melissa Peretich invited me to attend an in-service training that they were facilitating at Rocky Mountain High School. It is so rewarding seeing these two taking what we had learned about Web 2.0 tools and teaching others. As a learner, it is so great to see other learners taking co-created ideas and passing them on and expanding on them.

Between the two to them they discussed Slideshare, Google documents, Ning, and Creative Commons. Google documents and Slideshare seemed to be of great interest to those attending. There were many concerns about inappropriate content on Slideshare. Someone suggested the use of a Webquest to direct students to particular Slideshare content, however, we quickly realized that students may still be exposed by related content that is inappropriate. After the in-service training, I had an idea that maybe teachers could embed Slideshare content into a "safe" blog, subsequently minimizing exposure to inappropriate content.

I want to say thank you to Melissa Ring and Melissa Peretich for continuing the discussion and learning that we started in EDUC331... I am very proud to be your colleague. Keep up the great work.

Love to read... do the Library Thing

Here is another site. The Library Thing... what they call the largest book club on the planet. This site is complete with metadata and syndication, connecting those who love to read. Note, there is a large group of graduate students learning on this site.

Things come to me: Instructables

I gave a presentation about Web 2.0 technology and community to a group of graduate students in ED 709 Educational Leadership. I was telling them that Web 2.0 has connected me to a invaluable network of resources that push information to me and that I vary rarely search (the Internet) anymore. If I did search, I may find interesting things out there... but I get all the interesting information that I can handle form my network (no time to look for more). To me this is a great problem to have. I spend more time looking at things that others like me have found to be interesting. This is much more focused and productive (be careful... it is also additive).

Here is a Web 2.0 tool that was pushed to me (through my) this morning! I hope you like it too... If not, don't keep me (or put me) in your network. Build a network that fits your needs and that sends your stuff that makes you crave for more.

Click on the image to find about about instructables a site with step-by-step instructions. Together, what can we learn next?