Some cool online photo edit images:
camper 2
Image by Muffet
One of the images from my website. I was messing with it using online photo editing software. From www.eduwrite.com/histpc.html
camper orig.
Image by Muffet
One of the images from my website. I was messing with it using online photo editing software. From www.eduwrite.com/histpc.html
"Monochrome... [@dailyshoot #ds100]
Image by ConnectIrmeli
...photos don't have to be the result of processing or desaturation. Find a monochrome composition and shoot it."
Today's gray-scale photo is boost for a reflection as a reply to this tweet by @cristinacost re. personal experiences of using "tech". Edited on March 01, 2010: The blog post referred by @cristinacost is here.
I reflected my last six years online during last week. I review that now focusing on what kind of role "tech" has played:
2004-2008 - participating a chain of VLE courses. Considering now - it feels very strange that courses (with all that collaborative work!) were closed immediately after the last assignments. But exactly the possibility to learn together online was the biggest factor to keep my studying motivation high. The collaboration was so much more intensive compared to f2f classes I simultaneously had.
2008-2009 "tech" became "T-E-C-H". It required as much attention and energy as people in my growing network. All the following I needed to learn starting from the scratch: blogging, microblogging, photoblogging, videoblogging, conferencing and other professional networking tools, People who had been doing all this since 2002 were the most important motivational factor. This meant focus shift from "tech" to people.
By 2009 I had learned an attitude consisting of:
*I* learn...
*I* enjoy...
*I* share...
*I* connect...
From end 2009 on: LEARNING IS NOT ENOUGH!
I recognize now that the *I learn* phase toward critical thinking was an inevitable stage. It's as inevitable to unlearn it. Staying in the *I learn* / *I enjoy* phase equals remaining an eternal beginner what comes to learning to utilize critical reflection to boost and alter daily routines. Reflection - just like innovation which is the reason why we need to learn critical thinking - must be cut in suitably small pieces. Reflection is a tool to be used upon need - not a continuous way of learning or living. Innovating and being innovated is.
==> 2010 -
"Tech" is more important to me than ever because everyone I need - or who needs me re. ongoing project preparations and studies - I reach via social networks. "Tech" has transformed to a kind of background thing though. I don't currently use "tech" at all focusing in the equip in concern. But "tech" is - I would estimate - 95% enabler of everything I currently do. And especially in strengthening, deepening and sharpening the network supporting my unlearning toward wider innovation literacy and competence. "Tech" enabled network is a guarantee for not getting stuck in learning that gradually transforms monochrome like the landscape in the above pic. Other people see it. You don't if your networks do not keep you alert.
