http://blog.larkin.net.au/2008/03/30/diigo-in-education-this-is-crazy-man/ Thoughts on teaching, technology, learning and life in an era of change. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:26:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.larkin.net.au/2008/03/30/diigo-in-education-this-is-crazy-man/comment-page-1/#comment-605 » Web 2.0 guilt Brave new world Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:54:57 +0000 http://blog.larkin.net.au/2008/03/30/diigo-in-education-this-is-crazy-man/#comment-605 [...] John Larkin’s blog struck a chord with me when he talked about signing up for everything under the sun ‘in a drunken Web 2.0 haze’. Me too. My ‘registrations’ information word doc is now into its third page - yes, you heard correctly. But what am I to do!? There’s so much out there, and I’m like a child in a lolly shop. All the lollies are free, did I mention? As John says, ‘too much choice does create paralysis. Like the aisles in a supermarket. Too much choice is a legacy of the twentieth century I guess’. And I do love knowledge, discussion, recommendation, links to fabulous resources. And I love passing these on to other people. Still, this weekend I have done other things: boring house stuff, baked a blueberry crumble cake, helped my younger son with a project about earthquake-safe houses, bought a barbecue, watched an energizing Nigel Kennedy concert on DVD, had breakfast at Brunetti’s, visited Wunderkammer, read my older son’s year 12 psychology research essay, played with the dog…. so you see, it’s not that bad. I loved one of the comments on John Larkin’s blog: ‘Set up a new group? *^_^* What should we call it? “Clayton’s 2.0″? The group you have when you are not having a group?’ [...] [...] John Larkin’s blog struck a chord with me when he talked about signing up for everything under the sun ‘in a drunken Web 2.0 haze’. Me too. My ‘registrations’ information word doc is now into its third page – yes, you heard correctly. But what am I to do!? There’s so much out there, and I’m like a child in a lolly shop. All the lollies are free, did I mention? As John says, ‘too much choice does create paralysis. Like the aisles in a supermarket. Too much choice is a legacy of the twentieth century I guess’. And I do love knowledge, discussion, recommendation, links to fabulous resources. And I love passing these on to other people. Still, this weekend I have done other things: boring house stuff, baked a blueberry crumble cake, helped my younger son with a project about earthquake-safe houses, bought a barbecue, watched an energizing Nigel Kennedy concert on DVD, had breakfast at Brunetti’s, visited Wunderkammer, read my older son’s year 12 psychology research essay, played with the dog…. so you see, it’s not that bad. I loved one of the comments on John Larkin’s blog: ‘Set up a new group? *^_^* What should we call it? “Clayton’s 2.0″? The group you have when you are not having a group?’ [...]

]]> http://blog.larkin.net.au/2008/03/30/diigo-in-education-this-is-crazy-man/comment-page-1/#comment-565 Forgive me father for I have sinned ~ Web 2.0 guilt Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:02:07 +0000 http://blog.larkin.net.au/2008/03/30/diigo-in-education-this-is-crazy-man/#comment-565 [...] since I was seemingly in a drunken web 2.0 haze I signed up for Diigo despite my digs here, here and here (scroll down) I will have to thoroughly explore Diigo in order to derive the [...] [...] since I was seemingly in a drunken web 2.0 haze I signed up for Diigo despite my digs here, here and here (scroll down) I will have to thoroughly explore Diigo in order to derive the [...]

]]> http://blog.larkin.net.au/2008/03/30/diigo-in-education-this-is-crazy-man/comment-page-1/#comment-329 John Travers Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:12:19 +0000 http://blog.larkin.net.au/2008/03/30/diigo-in-education-this-is-crazy-man/#comment-329 Very interesting discussion. As contributor to me.edu.au I get a sense of people getting overcrowded in the social networking world. I suspect that simplicity is the key, and services that have limited functions and do them well will be useful. Very interesting discussion. As contributor to me.edu.au I get a sense of people getting overcrowded in the social networking world. I suspect that simplicity is the key, and services that have limited functions and do them well will be useful.

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