Forums

Been working on setting up a forum for the Community of Practice to be launched next week. Guided by DK from Mediasnackers, I realised that I did have the necessary knowledge etc to set something up, it's the compelling stuff I need to include - the stuff that will make people want to engage.

Very interested in working from a digital dialogue or digital conversation perspective. It's about just that - communication, but we'll need to persuade some people of the value of that through social media, I guess.

So, what to use? Playing with Blogger and Wordpress and each has different pros and cons. Obviously, these are blogs not websites so there are limitations. Have a look at http://gyroscopese.wordpress.com/category/welcome/  and http://gyroscope-se.blogspot.com/ . I think that they're both very different.

It's been interesting looking at the construction of these pages from a this perspective. How to best promote conversation and interaction, but also what widgets will enable easy access and some quick wins? Both are work in progress but the next week or two will be interesting....

Slow down...

This made me smile this morning ... Have had some thinking time stimulated by the blog that it's from, particularly

http://demotivatorsblog.com/slow-down/ .  Yes I've got a pile of marking to do, but I also need to think about Assignment 2.

Also, by  using this blog as my reflective journal, is this exactly what I'm doing? Making my stupidity more accessible to others??? I'm excited that I've got followers, comments and am starting to build a network but what is that about? It's an interesting challenge to try to write stuff that you think will be interesting/stimulating for others, but is that what I should be doing I wonder?  No doubt that networking is giving me links to interesting stuff and I've got back in touch with people that will be useful and who stimulate my thoughts..

Just occurred to me that the community of practice idea that I'm working on might be something - however, I do need to get my skates on. Seems that everything is done on the run at the moment. Need to draw breath and think  things through properly.

Will be diarying some Ed D time otherwise I can see what will happen.. I'll be in the south of France, sitting on the beach with my laptop! Or maybe that's what you're supposed to do when doing an Ed D?