What a blast!
I’m in the process of retiring from my Educators’ Resources blog. So that the resources aren’t lost to my subscribers and site visitors, I’m passing the whole blog on to a colleague, Sylvia Currie.
Sylvia’s first post to the blog reviews a bit of our history. I had forgotten all the details of the online seminar in which we met, but Sylvia has posted some specific quotes from me. Wow, is it Very Strange to read myself from way back then when I was:
- new to the concept of virtual education and online learning, taking a seminar to find out what it was all about
- new to being an online presence/voice
- testing the waters with a (slightly strange) online persona & handle: PinkFlamingo.
Here’s what I just wrote to Sylvia in response to her post:
It was interesting to read what I’d written, because of course I have completely forgotten all the details. I was such an online newbie back then, but already showing what was to become of my online style — in person, an extremely shy and quiet person; online, a loud-mouth, opinionated, no-holdbacks blabbermouth. Too funny to see the beginnings of all that right there in print. It’s like peeking into a personal diary of some kind. Yikes.
I guess it’s a personal history lesson. It also confirms what we’re all warned about — taking care about who we are and what we do online. Whatever we do, write, post, are, or become, it all goes on record. It becomes history, like it or not. A lesson in taking care of ourselves and our profile at all times.
Sylvia Currie // Apr 22, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Ha ha! It IS strange, isn’t it? I think it would be an interesting project to collect everything we contributed to online discussions and heap it up somewhere. When I go back to review GEN seminars (they’re all still online!) I’m amazed at how we were raising such important questions way back when and we are still grinding away at them today. Anyway, I’ll remind you of a little tid bit from our past. When we were preparing to do a presentation together at the Connections 2001 conference in Whistler you fessed up that you were extremely shy and that you didn’t want to speak. I said OMG! same here!
Somehow we did manage to present together…and say something out loud LOL
Kate // Apr 22, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Yes, strange. Still grinding away at the same imporant questions. And still shy about f2f encounters. Some things never change. But we all learn and grow from every little bit of it.