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Friday and things are hotting up!
Once Doctor Who is over, there is little to tempt me away from the computer on a Friday night, so I have been spending some quality time at the conference.
While it has taken a few days for people to get stuck in, (perhaps because no-one wants to be the over-eager student at the front of the class whose hand is constantly oscillating to the refrain of "I know the answer!/ I have a question!/ Pick me!!") over the last 24 hours the number of forum messages have obviously reached the tipping point, after which the forum discussions achieve their own momentum. Which means, of course, that we are getting into the really interesting part, where we get to throw ideas around, pick the authors' brains, question and dissect and recombine the ideas within and between papers to come out with a new set of understandings and ideas (don't you just love constructivist learning approaches??).
So having hit this exciting part of the first digital environment strand, I could happily spend the next two weeks simply following up suggestions and clicking through links and creating the most enormous TL-relevant blogroll ever to crash Bloglines - but this strand will be overtaken on Monday by the digital literacy strand/forum, so this weekend I must also fit in some reading and reflecting time, ready to hit the 'ground' running on Monday night.
Oh, I can't help myself - I love online conferences!!! I love the discussions and the sharing of resources and the networking relevant to topics - I find that f2f conferences are intensely stimulating and involve a lot of talking-as-hard-as-we-can in between sessions and over hurried snatches of meals in frantically busy cafeterias - the real-world format simply doesn't allow time for reflective participation in the way an online conference does. Not to say that three weeks of getting online 5 nights a week isn't a little wearying (particularly for the rest of the household) but there are some distinct advantages of this medium.
Which is as much profundity as I'm ready to produce today.
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While it has taken a few days for people to get stuck in, (perhaps because no-one wants to be the over-eager student at the front of the class whose hand is constantly oscillating to the refrain of "I know the answer!/ I have a question!/ Pick me!!") over the last 24 hours the number of forum messages have obviously reached the tipping point, after which the forum discussions achieve their own momentum. Which means, of course, that we are getting into the really interesting part, where we get to throw ideas around, pick the authors' brains, question and dissect and recombine the ideas within and between papers to come out with a new set of understandings and ideas (don't you just love constructivist learning approaches??).
So having hit this exciting part of the first digital environment strand, I could happily spend the next two weeks simply following up suggestions and clicking through links and creating the most enormous TL-relevant blogroll ever to crash Bloglines - but this strand will be overtaken on Monday by the digital literacy strand/forum, so this weekend I must also fit in some reading and reflecting time, ready to hit the 'ground' running on Monday night.
Oh, I can't help myself - I love online conferences!!! I love the discussions and the sharing of resources and the networking relevant to topics - I find that f2f conferences are intensely stimulating and involve a lot of talking-as-hard-as-we-can in between sessions and over hurried snatches of meals in frantically busy cafeterias - the real-world format simply doesn't allow time for reflective participation in the way an online conference does. Not to say that three weeks of getting online 5 nights a week isn't a little wearying (particularly for the rest of the household) but there are some distinct advantages of this medium.
Which is as much profundity as I'm ready to produce today.
:>
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