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By: A Lesson in Connections | The Thinking Stick « Social Computing Technology

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:40:11 +0000

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By: Web 2.0: What is it? « Classroom Tech Tips

Web 2.0: What is it? « Classroom Tech Tips — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 23:04:48 +0000

[...] three videos that may help understand Web 2.0. The first is a video by Jeff Utecht. In his post on A Lesson in Connections he explains that he posted this video as his attempt to get his head around Web [...]

By: Karl Fisch

Karl Fisch — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:11:23 +0000

Just catching up on my RSS aggregator – sorry to come to this post so late. But if it helps any, I feel your pain! In fact, I’m working on (in my head) a post similar to this regarding my Did You Know presentation. The comments on many of the sites (Did You Know is not just on YouTube, but a variety of other “interesting” sites like i-am-bored.com) are a bit overwhelming and disheartening at times, although there are some good ones in there that are helping my thinking. But, similar to yours, they have no idea of the original context of the presentation – I think there’s a lot we can learn from this and pass on to our students.

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:23:58 +0000

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences here, and I took away more of the impression about the power of making links, than the concern over “mean” remarks. I’ve seen more than a few on things I’ve put on YouTube (and the folks on digg can be even harsher). It serves a lesson to not take them all at face value or that people write this because they feel safety of anonymity. Yet it is disturbing that there are people with such rage to unfurl in un-warranted places. Perhaps the notion is not writing/posting/blogging to seek favorable comments or an audience at all (??).

Cheers and happy new year.

By: Dennis Harter

Dennis Harter — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:27:09 +0000

This comment “meanness” is a very real issue in a much larger sense. Stemming probably from a great media push of sarcasm and back-stabbing and poor treatment of others (see almost every reality show) and continuing to the certain degree of anonymity or at least lack of face-to-face contact of online commenting, we now find that all people (not just young) tend to be more willing to say deragatory things to others. See any Rate my…site or a Hot or Not site…these types of sites are celebrating the “slam” comment. And this carries over to environments like blogs and YouTube.

So like a conversation I’m having on Chris Lehmann’s site about teaching wisdom to kids, this is another opportunity to have a great conversation with students…about the implications of what they write on themselves and on others. Character education hasn’t changed, it’s just got more meaningful as young people today interact with a larger and larger world-wide audience.

By: The Power of Connections « Musings from the Academy

The Power of Connections « Musings from the Academy — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:04:31 +0000

[...] Posted by musingsfromtheacademy on February 15th, 2007 Jeff Utecht at The Thinking Stick has written a thought provoking entry about the power of connections via web 2.0. His entry is quite apropos in the context of my previous entry. [...]

By: David Jakes

David Jakes — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:40:11 +0000

Man, those comments are harsh. But it does bring up a question about students posting video and the potential responses of people who post comments just to be hateful.

By: mike temple

mike temple — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:36:58 +0000

cont..I watched the video and din’t find it boring or poorly produced. In fact it has moved me further forward to wanting to research this medium and share your ideas with other colleagues in education
keep on pushing
Mike T

By: mike temple

mike temple — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:34:19 +0000

Great to read this post – it is interesting to hear you say that you were just practising and didn’t expect many people to watch your video. I think many people start blogging like that and move on to podcasting or like you, posting Youtube videos , just to see what it takes and what it looks like.
It’s great that you took the step – I