When Blogging4Educators started, I understood we had designed a number of environments to interact with participants, mainly, our YG and two blogs to host weekly discussions. During the first two weeks, fascinating conversations developed as we shaped, defined and built ideas dialogically on our blog threads.

On week 3, however, the task was to post entries and tag them blogging4educators and/or b4echallenge. We started experimenting with the power of tagging not only to organize, classify and describe our user-generated content on the web, but as a way of bringing conversations together, helping our edublogs talk to each other by decentralizing the discussion. We all started reflecting on different aspects of the week’s topic making it even more enriching and multifaceted as we allowed the new bloggers in our session to find their voice and to build their own readership. (Not bad in less than 4 weeks!)

So instead of converging on one spot, conversations are distributed, helping ideas flow creating interconnected semantic contexts. We are generating blogtalk, edublogtalk, metablogtalk, we are seeding the web with our ideas, but through tagging we are generating a context that helps us build open circles of thought and interaction.  

Since week 4 started, I’ve been reading non-stop. From Konrad Glogowsky’s reflective post to Lilian’s teaching context and Carla’s reaction with Fear 2.0 plus all their comments!  I simply don’t know where to start contributing to the discussion. It’s so deep, so broad, so complex and so essential.  As Will Richardson said in The New Face of Learning “In this new interactive Web world, I have become a nomadic learner; I graze on knowledge”.  I guess this post is just to say I’ll feed a bit more on your reflections and add my own piece to this learning puzzle. What do we talk about when we talk about blogs in education?

Image: this is what Edublogtalk looks like in Websites as Graphs

Related readings: Deconstructed Distributed Conversations
                                 The Web as Distributed Knowledge

- I attended kindergarten in New York City and cried every single day because I couldn’t understand what my teacher said. (See related post)

- I studied drama for seven years and performed in a play called “Wonders in the Land of the Alices”.  In 1998, I decided to quit and focus on Teaching Training College since at the time I worked as a secretary and I really hated that job. I do think, however, I still channel my creativity into teaching.

- I have button phobia. Yes, that’s right! Buttons! (I don’t even like the word) People generally don’t believe me or simply laugh at me when I tell them about it, but I’ve discovered I’m not the only one. Check this out: Unusual Phobias – buttons from Unusual Phobias

- I don’t drink alcohol at all. No particular reason. I’ve simply never tried it. Oh, but I love chocolate! I’m a chocoholic.

- I’m a big fan of Woody Allen. I love his films, especially the ones he made between 1977 and 1992 (i.e. From Annie Hall to Husbands and Wives – the classics ) When I was in 4^th year in high school, we saw “Another Woman” in my Philosophy class and I’ve watched every new film he’s made ever since. (My secret dream: to be in one of his movies. Maybe I can play the role of an English teacher who lives in NYC and goes to the shrink because she has a phobia of … you know! )

I’m now in the hands of Technorati.

Who’s next?