Week one
I’ve been drinking from the fire hose and it’s time I let some drops fall here.
Week 1 had promised to be an easy one. We had to start a blog, complete our introductions, and subscribe to participant’s blogs. It sounded quiet, well…it wasn’t.
My thougths
On the active google group:
This first week, as far as I understand, has been about getting organized to start the course. If this was a face to face course and took place back in time we would have gone home, bought folders, paper, highlighters, books and we wouldn’t have discussed which pen is better to take notes and which one to write a report. That’s not the case of this course.
Rss, tagging, bookmarking and blogging were the recourses we needed to handle the huge amount of interchange we all suspect is approaching. Participants didn’t act in isolation, but shared their resources as well as their opinion and expertise on them.
This has risen a technological talk and there is some concern about how newbies feel about this techie outburst.
It’s reassuring to see the way Leigh and the whole community are dealing with this, encouraging both techies and newbies.
On diversity:
70/80 people with different expertise and academic/cultural/backgrounds.
How to turn these individualities into a community is quite a challenge. Interesting to observe and to be part of.
I think it is in this diversity that the richness of this experience lies.
On the amount of information:
google group + participants’ blogs + reading material
Another challenge. Maybe the first step is to admit we cannot read all, we’ll surely miss quite a part of the content.
I’ve learnt to rely on my network, I suspect it is my network within the community which will help me process and choose the content so that I don’t feel overwhelmed.
Looking forward to Week2.
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