Comments on: More on Visionary Student Blogging: Does Shana See It?

By: Update on "Visionary Student Blogging" Project | Beyond School

Update on "Visionary Student Blogging" Project | Beyond School — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:16:53 +0000

[...] chronicled my fantasies (and here) and ice-water reality-baths about this project so far. I told you last week or so how my initial [...]

By: Carolyn Foote

Carolyn Foote — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:49:20 +0000

I think you are right–after a lot of twitter excitement, I’ve been longing for slower reading of books and blogs, and to sort my thoughts.

But at the conference Friday–I had a great time using twitter to keep up with the events of the day.

Maybe fall/winter is the time for pondering and consideration…..?

By: Clay Burell

Clay Burell — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:49:22 +0000

Hi Carolyn,

That “mad rush” seems to be getting comment around the ’sphere lately - about the same time as Twitter and K12 Online exploded onto the scene. I’m in pendulum mode myself these days. But it’s not the first time - there seems to be a cyclical pattern in 2.0 living, doesn’t there? Natural as the seasons, maybe?

By: Carolyn Foote

Carolyn Foote — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:10:51 +0000

Clay,

I love the invitational and visionary approach you are taking with your students, and am really looking forward to seeing where their journeys take them.

Thanks as always for sharing your process.

Perhaps this is the same approach we should take with our teachers as we invite them to blog and to make their work transparent. I personally never dreamed that I’d be talking over Skype to teachers in Asia or Australia, or that I’d even know educators overseas.

I also think, in the rush of our excitement over this–Shana’s post is a beautiful reminder of the need to stop and reflect and ABSORB what is going on. In the mad rush, that can get very lost.

Thanks again for sharing, Carolyn