Well I just got back from my first eLearning Guild Annual Gathering. Wow all I can say is what an amazing experience. I learned so much, met fascinating people, listened and learned from passionate people and now my head is spinning.
I generated so many ideas from the conference and from what I learned from various speakers. My first thing to do from my new book “1 Billion Things I Want to Accomplish” was to start a blog. So here we go. I’ve tried this a few times before personally and professionally, but not to a great success. Now after the conference I think I have a better appreciation for how I want to approach and utilize this tool. Side note here: I met someone who hates the word utilize….I should have asked him why. I’m going to use it here out of spite.
So off I go to begin my journey in the blogging world. My mission: since I’ve chosen to accept it is to, as I’ve titled this blog, just continue to discover the world around me through eLearning. Whatever form that may take. For now that is any electronic form that I find interesting and fascinating. It may narrow as time goes on, but here is where I start.
For instance: at the end of the conference we heard the closing note speaker Cecily Sommers speak on Brave New World. She was referencing a show on the Discovery Channel called Man vs. Wild. I found this interesting as I had been watching the show in my hotel room the previous night as well. So my discovery here about my world is: Should I get trapped in the middle of an African Savannah and I can locate a stream I should travel up stream to find civilization, not down and more often then not a river or stream just trickles into nothing and disappears into the ground. One is better to travel up stream and find the source.
So before I continue on my blogging journey into the known I’m going to finish my book “1 Billion Things I Want to Accomplish” with the ideas and references I gathered from the conference. I’ve made some notes on things I want to blog about. There are some key people from the conference I want to tap into their blogs. Get my rss feeds more relevant instead of just the silly content I have in them now (although knowing exactly what is happening on the Harry Potter next movie set is hardly silly). And we’ll go from there. I’m going to strive for at least a posting a week, that seems reasonable, but we’ll see if that is enough.