Glad I can count on your forgiveness.

By the way, do you know what you call a man with a spade on his head?

Glad I can count on your forgiveness.

By the way, do you know what you call a man with a spade on his head?

I know what you mean about simply un-following or unsubscribing from their Twitter feeds/blogs, but when it’s so many it becomes disconcerting.

Vive la Différence! (so long as it’s pedagogically-sound)

I know what you mean about simply un-following or unsubscribing from their Twitter feeds/blogs, but when it’s so many it becomes disconcerting.

Vive la Différence! (so long as it’s pedagogically-sound)

It was certainly not my intention to have a dig, little or otherwise, at you personally. I was simply responding to the views I had read in some blog posts and, when I read yours, I simply reacted. Perhaps I did not express myself appropriately (after all English is not my mother tongue!) but it was not meant to be a serious comment, rather a tongue-in-cheek one.

You have to understand Doug that, if I didn’t give a monkeys, I wouldn’t have bothered to comment on your blog, which I read regularly by the way.

What I meant to say was that I don’t disagree with the thrust of what you said, I actually may agree that some people are in on it for the ride, I just don’t judge those people. If I think it appropriate, I will simply un-subscribe from their feeds or un-follow them in Twitter, but without making a big fuss about it or letting everyone know.

Hope that clarifies my opinion and thank you so much for commenting on this post Doug.

José

It was certainly not my intention to have a dig, little or otherwise, at you personally. I was simply responding to the views I had read in some blog posts and, when I read yours, I simply reacted. Perhaps I did not express myself appropriately (after all English is not my mother tongue!) but it was not meant to be a serious comment, rather a tongue-in-cheek one.

You have to understand Doug that, if I didn’t give a monkeys, I wouldn’t have bothered to comment on your blog, which I read regularly by the way.

What I meant to say was that I don’t disagree with the thrust of what you said, I actually may agree that some people are in on it for the ride, I just don’t judge those people. If I think it appropriate, I will simply un-subscribe from their feeds or un-follow them in Twitter, but without making a big fuss about it or letting everyone know.

Hope that clarifies my opinion and thank you so much for commenting on this post Doug.

José

It’s impossible not to agree with what you’ve written above; I’m certainly not trying to dictate what people write on what are, after all, their own blogs. Rather, I’m more concerned with people ‘getting’ the pedagogical goal of all this. You, José, are someone who ‘gets’ it. You’re using these tools to effect changes in your organization – as attested to by what you say in the EdTechRoundup meetings.

But there are others who use blogs, Twitter, and other Web 2.0 tools to ‘stay in the crowd’ or to just pass on, unthinkingly, a ‘cool tool’ they’ve come across. This isn’t the way to effect change. This is the way to perpetuate and prop-up using new technology an outdated system.

I hope you agree.

It’s impossible not to agree with what you’ve written above; I’m certainly not trying to dictate what people write on what are, after all, their own blogs. Rather, I’m more concerned with people ‘getting’ the pedagogical goal of all this. You, José, are someone who ‘gets’ it. You’re using these tools to effect changes in your organization – as attested to by what you say in the EdTechRoundup meetings.

But there are others who use blogs, Twitter, and other Web 2.0 tools to ‘stay in the crowd’ or to just pass on, unthinkingly, a ‘cool tool’ they’ve come across. This isn’t the way to effect change. This is the way to perpetuate and prop-up using new technology an outdated system.

I hope you agree.

Keep up the great work, buddy

Keep up the great work, buddy