I was curious about the writer of the E-Learning Journeys blog when I saw her name in Cofino’s Outside Voice blog. The blog is done by Julie Lindsay, and this particular post is called, “Shall we call it Collaboration 2.0?“
I chose this post because it had the very trendy (especially nowadays) “2.0″ tag to it. Plus, our class has been talking a lot about Collaboration lately, so I thought I’d give it a shot. Lindsay ends up discussing the different ways that students are communicating with each other to get things done. She touched on social networking, which is a tool that absolutely needs to be used throughout life, and is great that most college students and other teens are catching onto early. One of the points she made was that the teachers need to catch on to these new tools for collaborating and use them to their advantage.
I thought this was funny because both Mike and Vanna are on Facebook and AIM, and made it a point to the class at the beginning of the semester that they’d be available in those places to help us with problems we have.
I guess you guys are just a little ahead of the curve.
I’ve taken an extra appreciation to Mike and Vanna using these different ways of communication to collaborate. Its what a lot of our class already does when we need to get a hold of someone, so I’m glad they’ve hopped in on the fun. My photostory wouldn’t have gotten done yesterday if Mike wasn’t on AIM at around maybe 10:30 at night.
K so moral of the story…keep up the networking stuff Mike and Vanna, rest of the teaching world, you probably need to pick up the slack. This concept has its advantages.
Peace,
Jeron
P.S. – Mike, I’m extra glad you’re on facebook because you’re pro at taking some sweet Emo pictures. Exhibits #1, 2, and 3. Nice touch with the black and white.
