Comments on: Hello world! ‘Pair-a-Dimes for Your Thoughts’ finds a new home! http://pairadimes.davidtruss.com/hello-world-pair-a-dimes-for-your-thoughts-finds-a-new-home/ Reflections on Education, Technology and Learning Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:30:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dave Truss http://pairadimes.davidtruss.com/hello-world-pair-a-dimes-for-your-thoughts-finds-a-new-home/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Dave Truss Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:07:51 +0000 http://pairadimes.davidtruss.com/hello-world-pair-a-dimes-for-your-thoughts-finds-a-new-home/#comment-7 Thank you Gabriela! I obviously need to work out a few kinks yet... like setting up alerts to let me know that I have a comment:-) The only blog launching ritual I can think of is celebrating my first comment! A blog is only an online journal until there is interaction and engagement between writer and reader, as participants in a 'learning conversation'. You have been someone I owe thanks to, for both following my blog, and being my teacher as well. There is a still-unwritten post on 'Netiquette' that you have inspired me to write. But first, I have some reading, reflecting, and posting to do in order to bring my current, and hopefully final, blog location up to date. Thanks again for contributing the first comment on my new blog! Dave Thank you Gabriela!

I obviously need to work out a few kinks yet… like setting up alerts to let me know that I have a comment:-)

The only blog launching ritual I can think of is celebrating my first comment! A blog is only an online journal until there is interaction and engagement between writer and reader, as participants in a ‘learning conversation’.

You have been someone I owe thanks to, for both following my blog, and being my teacher as well. There is a still-unwritten post on ‘Netiquette’ that you have inspired me to write. But first, I have some reading, reflecting, and posting to do in order to bring my current, and hopefully final, blog location up to date.

Thanks again for contributing the first comment on my new blog!
Dave

]]> By: gabriela sellart http://pairadimes.davidtruss.com/hello-world-pair-a-dimes-for-your-thoughts-finds-a-new-home/comment-page-1/#comment-2 gabriela sellart Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:43:53 +0000 http://pairadimes.davidtruss.com/hello-world-pair-a-dimes-for-your-thoughts-finds-a-new-home/#comment-2 Dave, the new home of "pair a dimes" looks so elegant! The old one meant a lot to me last year. I read posts which were really enlightening, which broadened my mind making me think on new possibilities I had never thought about. I agree with you when you say that schools try to fit students into a matrix. Too often they just won't fit and they are regarded as a failure. This needs to change. I still don't know to what extent technology will play its part in this change. What I know is that it certainly gives students more possibilities than the limited ones they had before, when we, teachers, could build a wall around their access to knowledge. I also know that when we start to use technology we start to question ourselves about our practice in general, and that's the beginning of a change. And certainly our global network is providing new perspectives. But educational institutions tend to be conservative. Institutional changes will surely be slow. However, that shouldn't prevent us from changing. We'll always find gaps. Best of luck in your new home. Is there a ritual for blog lauching? Like breaking a bottle of champagne against the screen? no, I don't think that would be a good idea. Dave, the new home of “pair a dimes” looks so elegant!
The old one meant a lot to me last year. I read posts which were really enlightening, which broadened my mind making me think on new possibilities I had never thought about.
I agree with you when you say that schools try to fit students into a matrix. Too often they just won’t fit and they are regarded as a failure. This needs to change. I still don’t know to what extent technology will play its part in this change. What I know is that it certainly gives students more possibilities than the limited ones they had before, when we, teachers, could build a wall around their access to knowledge.
I also know that when we start to use technology we start to question ourselves about our practice in general, and that’s the beginning of a change. And certainly our global network is providing new perspectives. But educational institutions tend to be conservative. Institutional changes will surely be slow. However, that shouldn’t prevent us from changing. We’ll always find gaps.
Best of luck in your new home. Is there a ritual for blog lauching? Like breaking a bottle of champagne against the screen? no, I don’t think that would be a good idea.

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