Will is talking about how the read/write web is changing everything… including journalism. He mentioned that we can take a picture, write a blog post, and put it online – all from our phone… so I was motivated to do just that. I used to do this more when attending conferences, but this week I’ve been playing with the Flip Video instead. The pictures are much better, but there’s an interesting side effect… I haven’t been making the time to write and post as I go… since I’ve been panning to edit the video later. I think I need to switch to the video equivalent of Flickr… perhaps YouTube, but is there an automatic blog posting feature like this?
More on Will and the CLMS conference soon. Meanwhile, watch twitter for updates.
UPDATE: During the break between sessions I set up a Flip -> iMovie -> YouTube workflow for myself. Click on the image to the left for a brief clip that shows the number of laptops in the audience and then Will explaining the point of his talk, which I tweeted earlier:
Will’s point is the opposite of others here… He’s saying “this is about you and how you learn” instead of just “let your students do it.”
My tweet generated several responses from other educators on Twitter, which may be worth sharing/archiving here:
Durff @markwagner valid point-aren’t we the role models? it is about all the learners – us & them about 2 hours ago from web in reply to markwagner
ijohnpederson @markwagner Reminds me of SNB’s “You can’t give away something you don’t own. Among my favorite posts ever. about 2 hours ago from twitterrific in reply to markwagner
jexplorer @markwagner @mobileminded isn’t this really about mentorer learning vs creating an environment for individual learning? about 2 hours ago from web in reply to markwagner
budtheteacher @markwagner: Yep. I say in presentations that we should never do something to or with students that we won ‘t do ourselves. about 2 hours ago from web in reply to markwagner
mobileminded @markwagner I’ve begun to understand that to be true more and more. Makes sense as the focus is on personal learning. Then students. about 2 hours ago from TwitBin in reply to markwagner
This post has turned into something of an experiment. It all worked, but embedding YouTube is a no go in WordPress and posting the linked image was an extra step. Too, the embedded tweets worked, but required manually editing code. I may be trying more posts like this in the future, and if any of you have ideas how I might improve my process of embedding video (or twitter), please let me know.