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August 28, 2006
Starting out...again
Today seems like a good one to begin writing in my blog on a more regular basis. I went out for my morning walk and kids were at the bus stop for the first day of school. Well, actually, kids, mothers, dogs and SUVs were at the bus stops, but that’s for someone else to blog about.
On my walk, I listened to a podcast of an interview with Shuna Fish Lydon the author of the blog EggBeater . She blogs about her expertise, the food industry, but I could have inserted education in almost everything she said. Many of the people she deals with everyday can’t even open an attachment.
But the experience she has had in the blogosphere has really been all about networking. By blogging, she has “met” people around the world and has online friends who have given to her and she has given back to. As an educator, I’m concerned that we help kids use social networking to have this kind of experience. These aren’t the 20,000 MySpace “friends” but real people who have become friends because of the give and take.
It’s hard to articulate these differences, but it certainly is something worth pursuing. It seems to me it is really an extension of how we taught kids not to talk to strangers and began refining that with every new person we met.
Posted by Pat on August 28, 2006 2:00 PM
