Points all very well made - it is most certainly the more the merrier. The range of ideas and suggestions is the attraction for me - it is always good to hear what fellow teachers are up to in their classrooms.
Adam Sutcliffe
· 1 year ago
This is so well put Jose. You have summed up precisely the thoughts I have been having about the edublogosphere for some time. There are some very well educated and thoughtful, yet petty people out there whom seem to feel that blogging is, must be and for ever shall be a domain for them to expomd for all to listen to them. I had never written anything in the public domain until 2 years ago and I just like doing it. Sometimes it's rubbish sometimes it may be meaningful, but to be quite honest I am doing it for myself and those who want to read do so. Nice post.
Andrew J
· 1 year ago
Well put Jose. If you don't find something useful - don't read it. That doesn't mean it is not useful to other people, or to the person that wrote it. I don't look at it as diluting the conversation but as more books in the library that I can choose from. As always, thanks for your thoughts.
Jo Rhys-Jones
· 1 year ago
So very true Jose - wise words indeed. (I always write that when I agree with something!)
Chris
· 1 year ago
Hey Jose, not too much more to add to the comments above, apart from to wholeheartedly agree with your sentiments. At times it's very easy to get distracted by your own perspectives on things and lose track of what's actually important in education - helping each other to teach better and thus help the pupils learn better. As such, in many ways, the more voices, the better. And if something doesn't work for you or you don't agree with it, don't read it - but why tell that person that they're not allowed to write as these people seem to at times?!
Keep up the great work, buddy
Doug Belshaw
· 1 year ago
Can't help but thinking you're having a little dig at me here, José, after your comment on this blog post of mine...
It's impossible not to agree with what you've written above; I'm certainly not trying to dictate what people write on what are, after all, their own blogs. Rather, I'm more concerned with people 'getting' the pedagogical goal of all this. You, José, are someone who 'gets' it. You're using these tools to effect changes in your organization - as attested to by what you say in the EdTechRoundup meetings.
But there are others who use blogs, Twitter, and other Web 2.0 tools to 'stay in the crowd' or to just pass on, unthinkingly, a 'cool tool' they've come across. This isn't the way to effect change. This is the way to perpetuate and prop-up using new technology an outdated system.
I hope you agree. :-)
José Picardo
· 1 year ago
Dear Doug,
It was certainly not my intention to have a dig, little or otherwise, at you personally. I was simply responding to the views I had read in some blog posts and, when I read yours, I simply reacted. Perhaps I did not express myself appropriately (after all English is not my mother tongue!) but it was not meant to be a serious comment, rather a tongue-in-cheek one.
You have to understand Doug that, if I didn't give a monkeys, I wouldn't have bothered to comment on your blog, which I read regularly by the way.
What I meant to say was that I don't disagree with the thrust of what you said, I actually may agree that some people are in on it for the ride, I just don't judge those people. If I think it appropriate, I will simply un-subscribe from their feeds or un-follow them in Twitter, but without making a big fuss about it or letting everyone know.
Hope that clarifies my opinion and thank you so much for commenting on this post Doug.
José
Doug Belshaw
· 1 year ago
OK, you're forgiven Hose-B... ;-)
I know what you mean about simply un-following or unsubscribing from their Twitter feeds/blogs, but when it's so many it becomes disconcerting.
Vive la Différence!(so long as it's pedagogically-sound)
José Picardo
· 1 year ago
Doug,
Glad I can count on your forgiveness.
By the way, do you know what you call a man with a spade on his head? ;)
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I had never written anything in the public domain until 2 years ago and I just like doing it. Sometimes it's rubbish sometimes it may be meaningful, but to be quite honest I am doing it for myself and those who want to read do so.
Nice post.
If you don't find something useful - don't read it. That doesn't mean it is not useful to other people, or to the person that wrote it. I don't look at it as diluting the conversation but as more books in the library that I can choose from.
As always, thanks for your thoughts.
Keep up the great work, buddy
It's impossible not to agree with what you've written above; I'm certainly not trying to dictate what people write on what are, after all, their own blogs. Rather, I'm more concerned with people 'getting' the pedagogical goal of all this. You, José, are someone who 'gets' it. You're using these tools to effect changes in your organization - as attested to by what you say in the EdTechRoundup meetings.
But there are others who use blogs, Twitter, and other Web 2.0 tools to 'stay in the crowd' or to just pass on, unthinkingly, a 'cool tool' they've come across. This isn't the way to effect change. This is the way to perpetuate and prop-up using new technology an outdated system.
I hope you agree. :-)
It was certainly not my intention to have a dig, little or otherwise, at you personally. I was simply responding to the views I had read in some blog posts and, when I read yours, I simply reacted. Perhaps I did not express myself appropriately (after all English is not my mother tongue!) but it was not meant to be a serious comment, rather a tongue-in-cheek one.
You have to understand Doug that, if I didn't give a monkeys, I wouldn't have bothered to comment on your blog, which I read regularly by the way.
What I meant to say was that I don't disagree with the thrust of what you said, I actually may agree that some people are in on it for the ride, I just don't judge those people. If I think it appropriate, I will simply un-subscribe from their feeds or un-follow them in Twitter, but without making a big fuss about it or letting everyone know.
Hope that clarifies my opinion and thank you so much for commenting on this post Doug.
José
I know what you mean about simply un-following or unsubscribing from their Twitter feeds/blogs, but when it's so many it becomes disconcerting.
Vive la Différence! (so long as it's pedagogically-sound)
Glad I can count on your forgiveness.
By the way, do you know what you call a man with a spade on his head? ;)