Elizabeth Davis's Blog – June 2007 Archive (3)

I was thinking of the scene at edubloggercon where all of the microphones were in the center of the room as we were all talking. As a child of hippie parents, I spent a large portion of my childhood attending Grateful Dead concerts. That scene reminded me of the "tapers" section set aside at shows for people to record the show and trade tapes. I guess that was the beginning of open source music sharing for a lot of people. Maybe the… Continue

I'm sitting int he blogger's cafe surrounded by bloggers, some of them famous (the big W.R.) and I'm shy. Now I'm not really a shy person, but I have a hard time breaking in to a group of strangers. And yet many of them are not really strangers to me. And even the famous ones, are just people in real life. We all are right?



There is a kind of intellectual elitism among bloggers - that I perceive and that may or may not actually exist. The kind that I imagine that exists among any… Continue

As we close out the year here in the Northeast U.S. - our last day isn't until June 20th - I am still struggling with students and teachers who just want me to tell them what to do. Despite the multitude of screencasts and written directions I have created, kids and adults still want me to solve their technology problems. I've started responding with a new question: "What have you tried so far?" Unfortunately, the answer is often "Nothing."



I believe that the best thing you can learn… Continue