World Wide Wiser

After wintertime I did not use this weblog anymore. After hesitating a while I decided to take the course cck09 and now I am here again. I have very good memories on cck08, but also I have feelings I did not enough with all I learned, namely theoretical. In my work I do very much with all the ideas relating to being connect world wide, but I still find it difficult to explain the theory Connectivism. This time I am more prepared to this phenomenon and I only will enjoy what is coming and not make it to a problem. Listening to the first 2 Elluminate Sessions and reading many of the Introductions let me know that I am not alone in being more practical than theoretic. It’s alright. All philosophers George and Stephen and others are talking about, I am familiar with their names and sometimes a bit with their ideas but not enough to make necessary consumptions about links between them and learning theories. To say what I have learned, like we often asks our students, is always difficult for me and yet I learned very much. I feel good having so many contacts all around the world, I like it very much I learned to work with RSS and I am on Twitter almost every day to share something interesting I read. My colleagues, whom are mainly my students, tell me they learn a lot from me because I give them interesting readings, theoretical ideas, I share all I think all that can be of any value for them. OK, I am not a person developing own theories, but I am 60 now and it is time to accept what I can do and what not. Next week a new Master program, Learning & Innovating, will start at my institute and one asks me to do a program there about using the web and new tools in education. I was very glad with that offer and accept it because I think I have a lot to offer to the students, all grownups working in the field of education. I will start with tell them my place in the world of learning theories and my ideas about being connect and of course I will let them see how enriching it can be to be connected.

Slowly I am coming back in the work-sphere. I received a (second) new hip 5 weeks ago and was busy to rehabilitate this weeks. Had to courage myself to pick up normal life. Starting with cck09 was heavy but a very happy start! And I am glad today was the day I started again with this English blog, the language still difficult however less then last year .

You can find all my web-places here: http://www.google.com/profiles/vogelsia

I enjoy very much my participating in the Flickr-group 365 photos 2009. It makes me look at the world in an other way because every day I have to make a picture and I have to think about what it will be. And being at home several weeks made it necessary to make pictures of small things in house and garden. I can think of using this tool, not every day for a whole year perhaps, in education-situations were students have to discover what is most important in their coming profession or with children to learn to look in an other way to their surroundings.

 Well, my first blog in cck09 is a fact!