Yesterday I did not leave the house – for the first time in a very long time… I have an assignment due this week and so should be focussing on that.  So many distractions – all kinda related but still not getting the thing written.

Now I know why Twitter and Facebook are blocked at work.  You can get lost in the web of tweets and blogs and posts.

Last night I participated in some of the sessions of the Social Learning Summit (started 11pm Brissie time).  I have to admit I nodded off in the second last session I was in – so glad that there is no sound or video on participants generally!

There were some unexpected linkages to my paper though, especially when Dr Kristen  Swanson spoke about the UbD User Group.  I had just been reading the book, Understanding by Design (UbD) which relates to ‘backward design’ of assessment.

The process of participating in the summit was really exciting – 30 minute webinar sessions, so you would join the room, the presenters would go quickly through their presentation, lots of discussion in the chat, and then you would go off to the next session.  Very well put together!  I LOVE how the organisers put the schedule in different time zones, so you just clicked, and your options and times were all there, with the links under each session.

Generous sharing of knowledge from both presenters and participants.

Blackboard Collaborate worked really well too.

Well – enough – better actually do some work on that paper… or maybe I should check twitter first……..

 

Yes – before I published the post I had to Google for an image of social media overload…. so many great pics… so many shiny distractions…