I agree, the conversations and important issues discussed at and from this event will, and need to, continue, particularly in our online spaces.
So, thank you all for your comments

Cheers,
Alex

I’m not quite sure what Alex H meant in the NSW LearnScope blog about me ‘tearing people to shreds’??!! I’m still trying to work out whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing!

In any case, I think the conversations generated (and now sustained) from Regional Event 4 are a testimony to what we can all achieve and aspire to. I can’t wait to hear the conversation recorded by Padmini!

I’ve given it a little while to get past what I thought was a brilliant mix of technologies not without the difficulties of bridging conversations in virtual and physical space. Over the last year I’ve observed many instances of where presenters have found it impossible to mix both and make it work.

Frankly I think we are a long way off achieving this in a real and sustainable way. Perhaps we could have done more without an internet connection, without the “others” as I heard some in-room participants mention.

Maybe we have jumped over the digital divide and now rely too heavily on the presence of a data projector and a script to read.

You know my views. I think generational distinctions suck.

I also think that the way you have pushed us all to think more laterally as to what to consider when bringing people together is a good thing – yes we need to bring this multi-tasking into our learning settings.

In fact, it already is. fact is , we are the one’s catching up. I operate like that all the time…..for better or for worse.

As I’ve said before your a champion and a respected one. I hope you’ll keep connected when LearnScope’s become a distant memory in the archives of the AFLF.

This blog will stand testament to that fact.

Unfortunately Twitter did not work — always realised that might happen. No our students are not massive multitakers like me. If we plan to use social networking tools with our students than we need to be in this space first and be able to relate to how social networking works — otherwise we will not be able to show them how.

But now I am pondering if a better way of demonstrating social networking would have been to broken them into groups. Get them to reflect on their thoughts, and write them down, and then got the other groups to write comments back on the thoughts of the different groups. Or perhaps I should have got them to participate in the etools community — but I never realised so many of them would have access to computers during the event.

For me the biggest challenge with a virtual classroom is the fact you do not get the visual clues you get in a normal class — which allows you to speed up, slow down and change tack as required.

Think I need some more chocolate now after all this reflection.

Sue