Comments on: How I got this way http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/303 Dave Ferguson's interests, ideas, notions, tangents Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:43:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dave’s Whiteboard » Blog Archive » Rearview mirror, or, back on (this) board http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/303/comment-page-1#comment-14413 Dave’s Whiteboard » Blog Archive » Rearview mirror, or, back on (this) board Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:10:26 +0000 http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/?p=303#comment-14413 [...] I got this [...] [...] I got this [...]

]]> By: Dave http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/303/comment-page-1#comment-8342 Dave Thu, 22 May 2008 10:09:41 +0000 http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/?p=303#comment-8342 Karyn: in thinking about social software, I saw a parallel with movement from "how to train" to "how to improve performance." For me the <i>social</i> is and always has been more important than the <i>software</i>; it's just that the software can both ease and expand the opportunities for the social. I hear some of that in <a href="http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2008/05/social-media-and-me.html" rel="nofollow">Stephen Downes's reply</a>: early on, he was involved in grad-school face-to-face discussions, early BBS, MUDs. The software made it possible; the connections made it dynamic. Karyn: in thinking about social software, I saw a parallel with movement from “how to train” to “how to improve performance.” For me the social is and always has been more important than the software; it’s just that the software can both ease and expand the opportunities for the social.

I hear some of that in Stephen Downes’s reply: early on, he was involved in grad-school face-to-face discussions, early BBS, MUDs. The software made it possible; the connections made it dynamic.

]]> By: Karyn Romeis http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/303/comment-page-1#comment-8341 Karyn Romeis Thu, 22 May 2008 09:31:50 +0000 http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/?p=303#comment-8341 Thanks so much for this contribution, Dave. It's like watching one of those fractal screen savers to see the posts, sparking off other posts, and so on. And each post forms the spark for a conversation in the comments that follow. It's so exciting. Good grief. It's official. I.AM.A.GEEK. Thanks so much for this contribution, Dave. It’s like watching one of those fractal screen savers to see the posts, sparking off other posts, and so on. And each post forms the spark for a conversation in the comments that follow.

It’s so exciting.

Good grief. It’s official. I.AM.A.GEEK.

]]> By: Dave http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/303/comment-page-1#comment-8339 Dave Wed, 21 May 2008 22:10:14 +0000 http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/?p=303#comment-8339 Viplav, look at the connection we have between us. One blogger suggested I get onto Facebook; someone invited to the first working/learning carnival suggested Manish; he's opened the door for me to interact with people on the other side of the world. It's amusing (or distressing) to see "email" and "entire generations" in the same sentence. Wikipedia puts the dawn of email around 1965, and Ray Tomlinson developed the use of the at sign (person@domain.com) in 1971. As Alan Kay said, technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born. Viplav, look at the connection we have between us. One blogger suggested I get onto Facebook; someone invited to the first working/learning carnival suggested Manish; he’s opened the door for me to interact with people on the other side of the world.

It’s amusing (or distressing) to see “email” and “entire generations” in the same sentence. Wikipedia puts the dawn of email around 1965, and Ray Tomlinson developed the use of the at sign (person@domain.com) in 1971.

As Alan Kay said, technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.

]]> By: Viplav Baxi http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/303/comment-page-1#comment-8337 Viplav Baxi Wed, 21 May 2008 20:18:19 +0000 http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/?p=303#comment-8337 Hi Dave, Interesting post. This increasingly flat world is shrinking continuously and our capabilities to reach out to others and learn from them and share with them are increasing exponentially. These skills will take time to permeate through to the wider population of learners and learning professionals (just like email did for entire generations, I guess!) and we have to be cognizant of that. Viplav Hi Dave,

Interesting post. This increasingly flat world is shrinking continuously and our capabilities to reach out to others and learn from them and share with them are increasing exponentially. These skills will take time to permeate through to the wider population of learners and learning professionals (just like email did for entire generations, I guess!) and we have to be cognizant of that.

Viplav

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