Reflections on some “awesome” learning
I enjoyed being a part of Dean Shareski’s online/face2face class last week. Dean is so right when he says “Learning is Messy, but Good.” Dean is great about sharing his reflections about his learning and his students. We all get to learn and that is soooooo good.
I shared a bit about the invisible web. Here is another link I found that provides additional information, “Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed.”
David Jakes and Alan Levine talked about Del.icio.us and Twitter. Dean provides a recording of the session here.
Students shared their learnings. We truly do all learn from each other. I’ve been reading the well-written student blogs. See the links to the student blogs here. They are good reads.
The next day Brian, one of Dean’s students, posted this which certainly bears repeating:
The best comment of all was that in the future we will get 15 minutes of anonymous instead of 15 minutes of fame. This really does hit the nail on the head because with everybody publishing on the web their own movies and videos, and collaborating with wiki’s blog’s and rss feeds we will all be famous. Well famous enough for the world to see and read about us, learn from us and move farther forward and faster than without us. If this isn’t fame I don’t know what is and it is truly awesome.Â
I agree. It is truly awesome….
August 15th, 2007 at 5:52 am
I love the 15 minutes of anonymous idea–very catchy. And I certainly understand the spirit of it. I wonder if it’s really true, however. While it’s easy to connect with others on the net, it’s not all that easy being ‘found.’ (grin–the lament of a newbie blogger!) A recent study by the University of Pisa estimates over 11.5 billion pages on the web, while the Washington Post cited a study claiming over 290,000 sites are added EACH HOUR. Phew!
Moreover, Barabasi says in Linked that while everything can connect to everything else in theory, what actually happens is that a few supersites draw 90% of the links and become hubs, with everything else buried on page 999 of a Google search.
We talk about everyone’s ability to publish on the read/write web, and that’s fantastic. I just think the web is also a pretty anonymous place to be for the average Joe (or Jane).