Learning is Life

I’ve had the stress of using wiki for the first time to do a uni. assignment. The benefit now is that this is one “thing” I have a grip on. I liked the look of the ‘educators wiki’ at the bottom of the resource list as it seems quite purposeful and easy to use in enabling wiki for learning groups.

I like wiki because it can be like having a good rave where you get to share the main ideas about a topic and create/produce with it. Wiki is the ‘group project’ online and ego has the biggest challenge here if the product is getting recognition.

There is that major tenet in academia about the singularity of effort and achievement with the ghosts you stood on mentioned in the biblio.  In this setting wiki (group project) is not likely to make up the major part of the assessment. I look forward to using it lots in the future in as I like collaborative projects.

I like podcasting better than RSS feeds as it seems a more real source of ideas rather than just data. I found using the free directories helpful as I haven’t loaded iTunes. I will  link up with podcasting now that I have had this brief introduction.

I liked Buddist Geeks on P odcasts.com BG080: Peering under the hood of Buddhist Media  -because you met up with some quality minds and have a different take on what’s important and a reminder of the general psyche of traditional broadcast media caught in negativity. as well as nsights into this tradition of spirit tools.

NPR Podcasting had a promising looking line up of Health and Science shows.  I have a favourite Scientist – Dr Bruce Lipton – and will be looking out for podcast on him as he does a lot of public speaking on the cross over between science and spirit.

Podcastalley is the better organised. I like the little bit more white space I feel I can breath, but not for long – the general tone of the material seems quite cliched.

RSS is leaping into the connectedness of the web and having it come to you. I get the concept, thanks to the common craft video, of getting the updates on your favourite RSS sites all in one hit.  Netvibe proved too bigger leap for me as I couldn’t quite crunch the home page feeds set up. So I moved onto GoogleReader with success. I allocating the RSS feeds to different folders as a starting point in organising it. I like the ‘SLA all together now’ suggestions to look at developing this as a ‘habit’ and can see it being very helpful in keeping uptodate with favs, especially for professional development.

I am truly pleased to be joining all you bloggers. This is a big part of our community – sharing online – and I am thrilled to be starting to join in. I am passionate about information literacy and keen to learn to teach ‘online’. I live on the mid north coast of eastern Australia and teach mostly in high schools and I am training as a librarian.  It is such fun with heaps of resources online.

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