So I know this is short notice, but yesterday Ben Grey, Ryan Bretag, Sylvia Martinez, Doug Belshaw, Bud Hunt and others were having one of those (I think) maddeningly frustrating chopped up, hard to follow Twitter “conversations” about literacy that I and a few others started to chime in to and at some point I just thought we should “get a room” so to speak to have the conversation in a more coherent way since there were all sorts of interesting ideas being expressed and the whole thing resulted in scheduling an Elluminate session for today at 1 pm ET (time conversion here, tip to KJ) and that’s a long sentence but I’m not awake yet and you get the gist, I hope. If you’re not familiar with Elluminate, you need an Internet connection and a microphone and about two minutes to get up and running. I’ll be in the room 20 minutes or so beforehand to help people get going. Not that it’s going to matter, I don’t think, but seating is limited to 100, first come first served. Right now, I have about 25 Twitter RSVPs, so… I’ll moderate the conversation as best I can, and we’ll cap it at an hour (unless people want to continue on.) I’ll also record it and offer it up if anyone wants to check back. This is my take, but the topic is loosely based around these Twitter back and forths here and here, a conversation/debating medium that Dean Shareski aptly describes as “determining the best basketball team via free throws.” Join us if you can!
PROGRAMMING NOTE: I have a couple of other Elluminate/UStream session interviews scheduled, one this upcoming Tuesday at 11:30 am ET with Howard Rheingold, author of Smart Mobs and one of the real pioneers in thinking about social tools and one of my best teachers, and another with Professor Carol Dweck, author of Mindset which is a fascinating look at how attitudes affect learning. More to come on both of those…
UPDATE: Original session link was wrong…fixed now.
UPDATE: Session archive is now published.
Will, it sounds like it will be a great session. I won’t be able to make it, but I would love to hear the recording. If anyone reading this has done an elluminate session yet, it is a tremendous meeting tool and lots of fun.
Enjoy everyone!
Will, many thanks for getting this organized at short notice. Frustratingly, I missed the first 15 minutes as my Macbook Pro was playing up. I’m really glad that I caught the rest and contributed my meandering thoughts.
I look forward to the aftermath from various blogs! 🙂
Is this archived? I wish I’d seen the post earlier…
There was a great deal of discussion (good discussions) shared by all via the chat room and audio. I left the session with a couple of thoughts: 1. There is no wrong answer. 2. There is no “solid” definition for, or a way to measure literacy in regards to the 21st century learner. We assess reading and writing with standardized tests, but there is no standardization assessment or measurement for the use of web 2.0 skills. It’s not so much of what we know, but how we use it. 3. We, as communicators, need to be clear when it comes to semantics, our use of words, body language, etc. When we communnicate with others in this global world, it’s easy to misintrepret or be misinterpreted because of ones culture or by being insensitive to other’s feelings.
Hi Will, is the discussion available as a podcast or print? Thanks! Karen