Journal #9

Critiquing: "7 Degrees of Connectedness" K-12 online Conference

Getting Connected

The entire video was set up on a bulletin board that would zoom into different clips and portions of the video, which was a really creative way to transition from portion to portion of the interviews. It was also was really entertaining that the video was set in the format of a walk around the speaker's, Rodd Lucier, neighborhood in Ontario. It made it such a conversational type. The video then flashed to a real teacher named Jessica Swift. She spoke about her experience with beginning to use Twitter. It was really interesting that she was so nervous to connect with people and yet she ended up making such strong relationships with other educators despite her reservations.

Rodd then brought up podcasting. There was a testimonial from a guy named Mark about his experience with podcasting. He went from being a listener to Rodd's Teacher 2.0, to being someone who interacted with others through their podcasts, and now he actually produces his own podcast to practice connectedness.

Then the bulletin board brings us to another associate of Rodd's that he met while traveling in China. This portion talks about how helpful Instagram can be. He sums it up very short and sweet by simply saying, a picture is worth a thousand words, so one post on Instagram is lie an entire paragraph on a blog.