Comments on: Beachcombing or stuff I learned this week (intention statement)

By: Joyce

Joyce — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:44:50 +0000

Hello Sheryl and Remy, thank you both for leaving a message.

Yes, the weekly part has been a struggle. I was suffering a bit from information overload and instead of taking a step back, my solution was to make more work for myself and try to keep track of it all. The words ’snowball’ and ‘hell’ spring to mind.

But thank you for your advice Remy – I should pick up and share even the smallest shells or learning, even if my description doesn’t do them full justice. In this job I have so many new experiences and insights each day and it’s a pity that I’m letting them slip away now. (And how good to hear from you – any plans for heading this way yet? It’s beautiful here in the wine region and we have some spectacular cliffs to satisfy even the geekiest geologist ; )).

Sheryl, I like your idea of focusing on a particular project too, drilling down rather than going broad. I’m working on building a community of practice around e-learning and that would lend itself really well to this.

Thanks for the encouragement.

By: Remy

Remy — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:04:36 +0000

Hi Joyce, nice to see you are doing so well at the other side of the globe. What a busy bee you still are! Twitting, blogging, microblogging, moodle-ing…
With so much technology to stay in touch with I would feel like a Borg. But microblogging alone, well, okay, I will try nanoblogging (intention statement). Bringing me to your blog, which is very nice, but the weekly part of the beachcombing seems quit a challenge!
As an experienced beachcomber, on the sandy one that is, I like to advise you not to wait until you stumble upon something really interesting. Almost everything, even the most ordinary shell, tells an interesting story if you take a good detailed look. So maybe a kind of mini/mesoblogging about the ordinary things that wash up from the technocean would do the trick?

Doesn’t that sound like “grandfather tells a story” in denglish?
Well it is, actualy.

By: Sheryl A. McCoy

Sheryl A. McCoy — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:21:15 +0000

I can relate to some many statements about blogging. My biggest troubles are too many ideas and too much passion.

Once I pick a topic, I end up with a book (sort of)….so I leave them in draft form. It make take weeks or months before I can go back to them.

I could follow your system for blogging ideas. What did I learn this week? Reviewing new ideas or applications would be simpler, for me, because there is not as much emotional ownership or in depth research knowledge in my mind.

Right now, I am pursuing another method. I am focusing on beginning of the year ideas, instructional strategies, and activities. The use of picture books, new projects and various ideas for ways to make instructional strategies more interactive through technology represent meaningful information, and they are pretty well accepted by everyone.

Once I run this horse in the ground, I think I will pick up your idea. By they way, I hope you don’t mind that I am putting your blog on my blogroll.