http://distributedresearch.net/Linda/2007-10-16/injenuity/ Informal learning, Internet technology and Action research Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:05:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://distributedresearch.net/Linda/2007-10-16/injenuity/comment-page-1/#comment-571 Linda Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:45:23 +0000 http://distributedresearch.net/Linda/2007-10-16/injenuity/#comment-571 Hi Tom I think it's often not even about the 'best' tools. There are better, more sophisticated tools for 'micro-blogging' than Twitter. There's now a critical mass of edtech people using Twitter. If you can get a group of less techie people to all join Twitter together, help them to integrate into the community and find interesting people (and not just individuals - have a look at the<a href="http://twitter.com/k12online">K12 online Twitter stream</a>) to follow then I think that's worth doing. The easiest place to do that is Twitter. I think we need a balance, I know I can get very wrapped up in finding new, exciting tools and Ingenuity's post came as a good reminder that drawing more people in from the edge of the woods and sharing what I already know might sometimes be more useful :-) Hi Tom
I think it’s often not even about the ‘best’ tools. There are better, more sophisticated tools for ‘micro-blogging’ than Twitter. There’s now a critical mass of edtech people using Twitter.
If you can get a group of less techie people to all join Twitter together, help them to integrate into the community and find interesting people (and not just individuals - have a look at theK12 online Twitter stream) to follow then I think that’s worth doing. The easiest place to do that is Twitter.
I think we need a balance, I know I can get very wrapped up in finding new, exciting tools and Ingenuity’s post came as a good reminder that drawing more people in from the edge of the woods and sharing what I already know might sometimes be more useful

]]> http://distributedresearch.net/Linda/2007-10-16/injenuity/comment-page-1/#comment-570 Tom Barrett Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:54:46 +0000 http://distributedresearch.net/Linda/2007-10-16/injenuity/#comment-570 Hi Linda - an interesting question. The sheer weight of social style content is incredible, for each tool there is about 5 to 10 alternatives. This can only be a good thing I suppose as it gives the audience better choice. But sometimes we need to be guided to the best products, the best tools and to be advised which to avoid, ignore etc. So with the growing breadth of tools I would say yes we need more edtech aware people to act as guides. We need them to show others, who are only at the edge of the woods, looking in, a safe and worthwhile path through. Hi Linda - an interesting question. The sheer weight of social style content is incredible, for each tool there is about 5 to 10 alternatives. This can only be a good thing I suppose as it gives the audience better choice. But sometimes we need to be guided to the best products, the best tools and to be advised which to avoid, ignore etc. So with the growing breadth of tools I would say yes we need more edtech aware people to act as guides. We need them to show others, who are only at the edge of the woods, looking in, a safe and worthwhile path through.

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