Comments on: Connecting People or Connecting Content

By: Connections | Watershed

Connections | Watershed — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:19:25 +0000

[...] Jeff Utecht: Connecting People or Connecting Content [...]

By: shannon moore

shannon moore — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:29:50 +0000

Connecting People or Connecting Content http://tinyurl.com/cdyopb from: @jutecht

By: Jen Carbonneau

Jen Carbonneau — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:15:53 +0000

Jeff I thoroughly enjoyed this winter’s Teaching and Learning in the Connected Classroom. I have spent a lot of time thinking and planning for the tools you exposed me to.
I believe that in connecting online content comes first and then people. As I plan to use a wiki to help teach writing process, I hope to connect with a English LA teacher in another location to help my students distance themselves from the content of their writing for a more critical review by a student they don’t know. Within the classroom it is difficult to focus on content when the peer you’re reviewing is feet away. Students don’t take criticism well from others. Doing this work in a wiki will allow content to take priority over preconceived notions of the people they belong to.

By: Britt

Britt — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:41:53 +0000

Your post was very helpful! I plan on tryin tweetdeck!

By: He Tangata (People) | Tip of the Iceberg

He Tangata (People) | Tip of the Iceberg — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:46:40 +0000

[...] one of Jeff Utecht’s recent posts, he asked the question, “How do you connect: People first or Content first?” While the [...]

By: wanyi

wanyi — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:55:33 +0000

Hey! Jeff, hope you enjoy the conference! It is very satisfying to read this post! I love it very much! It is deep thought. Meanwhile it clearly points out the difference between RSS and twitter, content and connection, which is very informative to someone like me who is just a beginning learner in Info Lit.
Indeed, we are impressed by what is interesting and valuable content put there first, then the connection follows. Again, I start to think about the say of the revolutionary change of teacher’s role as a content owner to a connector. Teachers must be qualified content owner first in order to become good connector.

By: Power Learning 21

Power Learning 21 — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:11:16 +0000

Great post, very informative.
I tried tweetdeck and loved it

By: FlashInspired

FlashInspired — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:38:33 +0000

Good post. Just to add to the RSS discussion...check out "Media RSS". It is used to broadcast media content as well extending RSS technology. The beauty is the applications that can use this content and download it directly to the user. iTunes uses an RSS format for podcasts, and there are many other web 2.0 sites that use RSS for more than just text content using what's called an "enclosure". You can link to media files, photo slideshows and videos. Here's an example of a video served using rss on a web 2.0 site IgniteCAST.com. There are many more examples. Speaking of RSS, I'm adding this blog to my reader now.

By: Mike Arsenault

Mike Arsenault — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:37:09 +0000

Great post Jeff. I hadn’t thought about the differences between RSS and Twitter in this way before. I, like you, started with RSS following many of the same people quite a few years ago. The hard part for me is balancing my time between the two at this point. I’ve been better with RSS lately. This has decreased my time on Twitter. I think it starts with the content for me as well. I have subscribed to #gr8t on Google Reader as well as Tweetdeck (although I tend to catch more of it on GR).

By: Tyler Reed

Tyler Reed — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:41:59 +0000

Great post, Jeff! It seems to me that the content should come first, and the connections should follow. Example: I love to bike and I live in Brooklyn, so I go out on search.twitter.com or Google Blog Search and look for blogs or tweets about bike rides in Brooklyn. Then I follow them on Twitter or add their RSS feed to my reader. The connection is a result of content, or shared interests.

In an offline world, it might go the other way. I meet someone at a BBQ, making the connection first, then a discussion about what we do/what we like/who we know follows. Connection before content.

Just my initial thoughts! Looking forward to hearing what others say!