Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Mishna if there had been Twitter
As I read about micro-blogging, I can not help thinking about what the Mishna would have looked like if there had been twitter. There would have been Rabbi Yehudah Ha'Nassi, typing tweets to his followers. 140 characters or less. Every letter would count. Every word would be packed with meaning. Precise and to the point. Isn't that kind of like what the Mishna is already but on paper?
At the same time, now that I have signed up to follow a whole bunch of tweet feeds, I can't help but think that the twitters that are sent today are by no means as concise or meaningful as Mishna. Everyone under the sun is tweeting - when they are brushing their teeth, where they are having their coffee, and a thought that came to them while on the bus commuting. How does one weed out the useful from the mundane and yet not be over-inundated by 'useless information overload'; it escapes me. I even hesitate writing this blog and putting it out there for others to read because really, as if these are truly original thoughts that you the reader has to spend the 30 secs to read rather than putting that 30 secs into something more useful.
What can I say? I guess I am still old school. I know I need to move past it and get with the flow of the times.Hey, I'm blogging aren't I? It's a start, no?
At the same time, now that I have signed up to follow a whole bunch of tweet feeds, I can't help but think that the twitters that are sent today are by no means as concise or meaningful as Mishna. Everyone under the sun is tweeting - when they are brushing their teeth, where they are having their coffee, and a thought that came to them while on the bus commuting. How does one weed out the useful from the mundane and yet not be over-inundated by 'useless information overload'; it escapes me. I even hesitate writing this blog and putting it out there for others to read because really, as if these are truly original thoughts that you the reader has to spend the 30 secs to read rather than putting that 30 secs into something more useful.
What can I say? I guess I am still old school. I know I need to move past it and get with the flow of the times.Hey, I'm blogging aren't I? It's a start, no?
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Blogging about Blogging
Seems rather funny that my first blogging assignment for my ed-tech class is to blog about blogging. Anyway, I thought that I would take the opportunity to reflect on a part of the reading for the class. In our reading for this week, it mentions the use of blogging as a tool for facilitating a professional development community. I never really thought about the use of a blog to be a running PD dialogue for a school community. I know that it also discusses the ability to go beyond your school walls to connect with other educators. But, I found the possibility interesting to have all teachers in one school on one internal blog so that they could cross pollinate ideas, share reactions to a common PD book (kind of like an online book club), and just generally post links to other articles or ideas that they have which could help their peers professional growths. The one questions which I ponder is how motivated teachers would be to actually check the blog or post to it, especially if they are not so tech savvy. But even if they are, it is still one more thing to do in an already busy line of work.
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