I connected to twitter around 10am and devoted a few hours to looking at the creativity tools which is the topic I chose to look at so my concept of connection has been essentially to connect to resources that have been provided and following up some of the twitter links..some of which like the edudemic link I found very informative and useful
Its been quite time consuming and has felt a bit random and frenetic flitting between different spaces different twitter accounts, own websites, BYOD4L website, links etc.. emphasis definitely on getting a feel, connecting to resources (albeit in a superficial way), embedded some resources to make further use (Answer Garden and Audioboo look promising for me). Also joined google+ community and shared my experience of using explee to illustrate its value as a communication tool. Chrissi's comments on my blog made me feel my efforts had been wqorthwhile.
I joined the twitter conversation but felt a bit out of it and didn't contribute. Seemed to me that you had to own apple devices to be involved. While I appreciate that the focus is on mobile people needing to be connected minute by minute. This is not my world. I am fairly sedentary and my notion of mobility is moving my laptop from one room to another. But I still feel connected to the people I need and want to be connected to.
Its been quite time consuming and has felt a bit random and frenetic flitting between different spaces different twitter accounts, own websites, BYOD4L website, links etc.. emphasis definitely on getting a feel, connecting to resources (albeit in a superficial way), embedded some resources to make further use (Answer Garden and Audioboo look promising for me). Also joined google+ community and shared my experience of using explee to illustrate its value as a communication tool. Chrissi's comments on my blog made me feel my efforts had been wqorthwhile.
I joined the twitter conversation but felt a bit out of it and didn't contribute. Seemed to me that you had to own apple devices to be involved. While I appreciate that the focus is on mobile people needing to be connected minute by minute. This is not my world. I am fairly sedentary and my notion of mobility is moving my laptop from one room to another. But I still feel connected to the people I need and want to be connected to.
I'm exploring the idea of life's an 'ing'. It led me to explore 'connecting'. I found a neat tool visual thesaurus which allows you to explore the meanings of words visually to help me identify a whole pile of related and associated words eg joining combining collaborating bridging mingling assimilating attaching pairing uniting associating coupling linking sharing and fusing. In life we use different approaches when we try to achieve different levels of connectedness or connectivity in different contexts. So what does this mean for tools we employ in the virtual world? Do we use different devices and tools to try and achieve certain forms of connectivity in particular contexts.
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