Comments on: Emerging From The Shadows (from 18th Oct 2007) http://lance.edublogs.org/2007/10/20/emerging-from-the-shadows-from-18th-oct-2007/ tentatve steps into web 2.0 and social networking Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:41:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: lance http://lance.edublogs.org/2007/10/20/emerging-from-the-shadows-from-18th-oct-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-13 lance Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:26:20 +0000 http://lance.edublogs.org/2007/10/20/emerging-from-the-shadows-from-18th-oct-2007/#comment-13 Thanks Jeanette I am really just starting to feel my way through a lot of this. I agree with you on the reflective and immediate aspects both being vital. I am all too often prone to the ‘contemplating the navel’ approach to most things with a tendency to overthink. The immediacy of tools like Twitter are, while quite foreign to me, of the utmost value to continued learning. Cheers Lance. Thanks Jeanette
I am really just starting to feel my way through a lot of this. I agree with you on the reflective and immediate aspects both being vital. I am all too often prone to the ‘contemplating the navel’ approach to most things with a tendency to overthink.
The immediacy of tools like Twitter are, while quite foreign to me, of the utmost value to continued learning.
Cheers
Lance.

]]> By: Jeanette http://lance.edublogs.org/2007/10/20/emerging-from-the-shadows-from-18th-oct-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Jeanette Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:44:23 +0000 http://lance.edublogs.org/2007/10/20/emerging-from-the-shadows-from-18th-oct-2007/#comment-4 Enjoyed this post and your earlier posts about entry into blogging. I shared your same "prejudices". Shared your same sense of awkwardness. Shared the same desire to lurk in a lot of places until I felt I had something worthwhile to say, or ask. That was 8 months ago. Now, you can't shut me up. Blogging, and reading others' blogs, has refined my thinking, shaped my opinions, and taught me more in a short span of time than I thought possible. Adding twitter to my learning network (johnsoj2) recently took it all up another notch. The power of blogging and RSS builds slowly, over time. The power of twitter can be immediate, if you've built a set of people to follow who are "right" for you. Both the slow and reflective processing, and the immediate idea-sharing, are vital. And they're the most significant professional development I've ever found. I encourage you to stick with them until you've crossed over into that tipping point. It'll be worth your while! Enjoyed this post and your earlier posts about entry into blogging. I shared your same “prejudices”. Shared your same sense of awkwardness. Shared the same desire to lurk in a lot of places until I felt I had something worthwhile to say, or ask. That was 8 months ago. Now, you can’t shut me up.

Blogging, and reading others’ blogs, has refined my thinking, shaped my opinions, and taught me more in a short span of time than I thought possible. Adding twitter to my learning network (johnsoj2) recently took it all up another notch. The power of blogging and RSS builds slowly, over time. The power of twitter can be immediate, if you’ve built a set of people to follow who are “right” for you. Both the slow and reflective processing, and the immediate idea-sharing, are vital.

And they’re the most significant professional development I’ve ever found. I encourage you to stick with them until you’ve crossed over into that tipping point. It’ll be worth your while!

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