Comments on: Group Membership and Validation http://vvrotny.org/2007/01/07/group-membership-and-validation/ Thoughts and Reflections from Vinnie Vrotny Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:50:51 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Cheryl Oakes http://vvrotny.org/2007/01/07/group-membership-and-validation/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Cheryl Oakes Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:34:25 +0000 http://vvrotny.edublogs.org/2007/01/07/group-membership-and-validation/#comment-16 Well Vinny, This seems to be the blog post to read and post to. When in your staff development mode, tell teachers how important it is to blog and comment, I only started 15 months ago and I feel I've gotten much more from the comments I write to others and from reading other blogs. Sure, I get to write my own blogs, but usually I do that when I have a message and a purpose. I get a huge benefit from the after effects. Hope to see some of your teachers commenting too. Cheryl Oakes Well Vinny, This seems to be the blog post to read and post to. When in your staff development mode, tell teachers how important it is to blog and comment, I only started 15 months ago and I feel I’ve gotten much more from the comments I write to others and from reading other blogs. Sure, I get to write my own blogs, but usually I do that when I have a message and a purpose. I get a huge benefit from the after effects. Hope to see some of your teachers commenting too. Cheryl Oakes

]]> By: David Jakes http://vvrotny.org/2007/01/07/group-membership-and-validation/comment-page-1/#comment-11 David Jakes Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:30:39 +0000 http://vvrotny.edublogs.org/2007/01/07/group-membership-and-validation/#comment-11 An excellent, thoughtful post. David An excellent, thoughtful post. David

]]> By: kwhobbes http://vvrotny.org/2007/01/07/group-membership-and-validation/comment-page-1/#comment-10 kwhobbes Tue, 09 Jan 2007 05:28:38 +0000 http://vvrotny.edublogs.org/2007/01/07/group-membership-and-validation/#comment-10 Very good insights. Thanks for dropping by my blog earlier. Figured I would return the favour! I agree with you completely, the sands of time are always shifting. In any area which people gather to share ideas and thoughts, there will always be those who stand out and to whom the others look. I know that when I did write my post, it was more that I was looking to make contacts with people to share information, whether as an administrator or as a teacher. I teach a Communication Producation Technology class and we have been experimenting with audacity and podcasting. I am looking to make contact with someone to share our podcasts (if we can get them uploaded) and get feedback. Also, I want to share different things that people have tried to get teachers to begin to use different technologies. You're right that the reason we do this is for the students, not for the recognition. I am just hoping to begin to make some contacts so that I don't have to do this in isolation. I want to expose teachers to the whole Skypecasts and discussing education from outside our little corner. And I want to introduce other administrators to these tools and get them involved. I think that all of our administrators should have Skype - no more long distance calls between administrators. Again, thanks for dropping by. I'll be reading! Kelly Very good insights. Thanks for dropping by my blog earlier. Figured I would return the favour! I agree with you completely, the sands of time are always shifting. In any area which people gather to share ideas and thoughts, there will always be those who stand out and to whom the others look. I know that when I did write my post, it was more that I was looking to make contacts with people to share information, whether as an administrator or as a teacher. I teach a Communication Producation Technology class and we have been experimenting with audacity and podcasting. I am looking to make contact with someone to share our podcasts (if we can get them uploaded) and get feedback. Also, I want to share different things that people have tried to get teachers to begin to use different technologies.
You’re right that the reason we do this is for the students, not for the recognition. I am just hoping to begin to make some contacts so that I don’t have to do this in isolation. I want to expose teachers to the whole Skypecasts and discussing education from outside our little corner. And I want to introduce other administrators to these tools and get them involved. I think that all of our administrators should have Skype – no more long distance calls between administrators.
Again, thanks for dropping by. I’ll be reading!
Kelly

]]> By: vvrotny http://vvrotny.org/2007/01/07/group-membership-and-validation/comment-page-1/#comment-9 vvrotny Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:43:04 +0000 http://vvrotny.edublogs.org/2007/01/07/group-membership-and-validation/#comment-9 Jeff, thank you for the validation. My baseball career ended during my freshman year of high school, when I was "too small" to continue. I was always a good player, not great, the kind of guy who will do the job and not make mistakes. And thanks for the heads up about Clay Burrell's blog. I will definitely have to check it out in more detail later this afternoon. What school did you pitch for in college? Jeff, thank you for the validation. My baseball career ended during my freshman year of high school, when I was “too small” to continue. I was always a good player, not great, the kind of guy who will do the job and not make mistakes. And thanks for the heads up about Clay Burrell’s blog. I will definitely have to check it out in more detail later this afternoon. What school did you pitch for in college?

]]> By: Jeff Utecht http://vvrotny.org/2007/01/07/group-membership-and-validation/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Jeff Utecht Mon, 08 Jan 2007 02:54:48 +0000 http://vvrotny.edublogs.org/2007/01/07/group-membership-and-validation/#comment-8 Love it! Any time you can use a baseball analogy to explain something is a good post in my book. I'm not sure you are a minor-leaguer...not sure we have enough educational bloggers to have a minor-leagues. I like how you explain the roles we all play. A team of all A-Rods is not good. You have a lot of talented infielders but not a pitcher, a catcher and the rest of the team. The blogosphere is like that I think. You just stepped up and hit a long one, unknown? Maybe, unappreciated for your contribution? Probably. But love what you're doing? Hopefully. We blog because it means something to us, it does something for us. We join groups or belong to teams for the same reason. I'm not the superstar on the techlearning blog and I'm OK with that...I really don't want to be, don't want that pressure, but I do fill a role that they wanted. I played baseball in college. I pitched and was a set up man. I would go a couple games without playing and then come in for maybe an inning, maybe a batter. That was my role, sure I wanted to be a starter, but I didn't 'have it' so I played my role to the best of my ability. We all have a role in the blogosphere and it's not always us that decides what that role might be. How I ever got over 200 people to subscribe to my RSS feed I'll never know. I'm I a 'big player'? I don't think so...do I fill a role as an overseas educator in the blogosphere? I think so. I swear if I wasn't in China my blog would be half as popular. Love it! Any time you can use a baseball analogy to explain something is a good post in my book. I’m not sure you are a minor-leaguer…not sure we have enough educational bloggers to have a minor-leagues. I like how you explain the roles we all play. A team of all A-Rods is not good. You have a lot of talented infielders but not a pitcher, a catcher and the rest of the team. The blogosphere is like that I think. You just stepped up and hit a long one, unknown? Maybe, unappreciated for your contribution? Probably. But love what you’re doing? Hopefully.

We blog because it means something to us, it does something for us. We join groups or belong to teams for the same reason. I’m not the superstar on the techlearning blog and I’m OK with that…I really don’t want to be, don’t want that pressure, but I do fill a role that they wanted.

I played baseball in college. I pitched and was a set up man. I would go a couple games without playing and then come in for maybe an inning, maybe a batter. That was my role, sure I wanted to be a starter, but I didn’t ‘have it’ so I played my role to the best of my ability. We all have a role in the blogosphere and it’s not always us that decides what that role might be. How I ever got over 200 people to subscribe to my RSS feed I’ll never know. I’m I a ‘big player’? I don’t think so…do I fill a role as an overseas educator in the blogosphere? I think so. I swear if I wasn’t in China my blog would be half as popular.

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