Replying to Comment Challengers

carlaarena — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:43:31 +0000

Dear Colin, Inês, Sue and Kevin,
Here’s my reply to you all about the Comment Challenge. Thanks for inspiring me to go even further now!

The Comment Challenge is Just Beginning

carlaarena — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:34:57 +0000

We all wish we had more time to explore, comment, post. Not perfect worlds, but this month was filled of ideas on how we can keep the flow of conversations into a deeper, more meaningful level in our blogs. My participation was imperfect, but this doesn’t mean I haven’t gone far. The comment challenge girls, Sue Waters, Kim Cofino, Michele Martin, and Silvia Tosano were just everywhere showing by skillful commenting strategies how to keep distributed conversations aggregated in clusters of meaning. Participants had a variety of levels of engagement, but each learned what he/she needed to apprehend at the time of the challenge.
For me, the challenge was just the spark for further explorations. No, it’s not over! Finding ways and time to connect is a multi-faceted process. You go far, there’s even more to discover. Ideally, it’s time now for us to keep using the skills, strategies, ideas we’ve been exploring in the blogosphere. However, I feel we should go on exploring possibilities as a group as we’ve done so far. I don’t know how, but maybe still using the tag and the cocomment sharing system to highlight new blogs, interesting posts, comments worth reading? Well, I’m speaking up my mind…
My top 5 lessons from this wonderful commenting experience?

Connections keep coming in different ways
A simple idea can take a bunch of very busy educators to go beyond, always beyond
Keep commenting. New nodes of learning are formed by the connections generated in the comment area.
There are people interested in what you have to say. Keep blogging.
I’m thinking of a totally new approach to next year’s blogging4educators Electronic Village workshop due to the input I’ve gotten from the challenge.

I’d like to thank everybody who enriched my professional development, my days, my life with such meaningful comment connections!
The challenge has just begun.

Taggalaxy – Traveling through your Images

carlaarena — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:54:08 +0000

Just found this very cool app, Taggalaxy, where you just type a tag and it populates an interactive globe with Flickr photos under the tag you searched for.

I tried the tag “webheadsinaction” and memories flooded as I spinned the globe. Fantastic! I just wish we could embed it on our blog and make it interactive here, as well.
I can envision some classroom activities for it matching tagging, Flickr and Taggalaxy. Any suggestions?

The Journey » tagging

Replying to Comment Challengers

The Comment Challenge is Just Beginning

Taggalaxy – Traveling through your Images