| Alec Couros recently enlightened me in Google + on “filter bubbles” via a TED talk by Eli Prasier, and I feel as though throughout this course my “social media” bubble has been popped, and I have been inundated with information that I just couldn’t seem to navigate. Looking back, I seemed to have immersed myself entirely with Copyright/Copyleft/Creative Commons and the story of Aaron Swartz, and while I was on my learning journey, I missed out on some very pertinent and informative journeys others of you were taking. |
In a conversation along the way, Carol Bob mentioned to me that her journey led her to twitter, a somewhat tardy journey that I myself am just starting to take. Others had journeys that led you to very different places, but it seemed most of you managed the waters quite smoothly (Fenella Olynick, Melanie Sedergree , Nadine Cahan, Barry Switnicki...Sandra Dailey, Carrie Cann, Kym Toporowski, Lisa Cole and Kim Chalmers to name just a few!), and were able to keep up with the current flow of information, a ride that over the past week I was finally able to take.
I appreciated the honest comments and promptings of possible uncomfortable situations within our community, it really did make me feel as though we are a collective and here to help each other. I thank each and every one of you for all your contributions to my learning journey, keeping me grounded when I wanted to fly away, and making me all the more proud to have been able to have shared my own contributions with you.
I wanted to end this week by curating our Google+ posts, as I felt there was so much there that I had missed along the way. So I went back and started right at the beginning. Five pages of notes later, I realized that I needed learn more from Fenella and figure out a few good curation tools (possibly my summer project!).
This course has seriously challenged my original mindset with respect to sharing, and has broadened my horizons with regards to OERs, the open movement and the impact they are beginning to have in B.C. Though I will not confess to being an expert in Copyright, or knowing what the best tool is to create a quiz, OLTD 505 has opened the doors to many new tools, ideas and has certainly shifted my original thoughts on what it meant to be 'open'. Lisa has summed it up quite nicely in one of her latest blog posts, stating "I still have questions, but at least I have awareness". Thank you Lisa, I couldn't agree with you more!