Far reaching Internet
The far reaching Internet has proven itself to me once again. I’ve had 2 very unexpected emails from people I have never met in person and probably won’t ever see face to face. But, we are communicating and discovering how we can help each other.
The first email I received was from a company in the United Kingdom. Mediasnackers does training in the UK; not only to teachers, but also to companies. Through Twitter, they found me and now want to interview me. How cool is that? DK posted in his blog a comment that I loved. He referred to discovering new connections as digital breadcrumbs.
Digital Breadcrumbs
breadcrumbs[SUMMARY—Follow them.]
(GBR) One of our favourite mantras we throw around in our training is: follow the digital breadcrumbs.
If you find a weblog you like click through the blogroll, if you find someone bookmarking the same site you have check out the rest of their links etc. Here’s a real life example:
MediaSnackers is on Twitter. We got an email this morning that someone new is following us. We checked out their twitter page and clicked through to their weblog to discover their role as the instructional technology facilitator for Lee County Schools, in North Carolina, USA.
After some more clicking and reading we found out some amazing examples of teachers using wikis, sending newsletters out via SlideShare plus a great post with a huge list of resources (most of which we haven’t heard of before).
Follow the digital breadcrumbs folks and you never know what pearls you will find.
The second email came from another techie who was just now beginning to work with other teachers about wikis. She found my blog and wanted to share the post on wikis with her teachers. Of course, I said yes (I mean, how flattering is that??), and directed her to my wiki so she could also share that site. We have “talked” a bit and are now sharing ideas.
On another note, one of my Twitter friends, Kim Cofino, was looking for a 4th grade class that her 4th grade class could correspond. She is in Bangkok, Thailand. I sent out a request to the other ITF’s in the county and one of them found a teacher in her school that is interested. I am so excited!
This is what makes my job the best! Gotta love it!
Until Next Time ~ Danita
October 7th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
I’ve added another breadcrumb! What a great description of links. I found you through a link on Kim Cofino’s blog, and I found her through Susan Sedro’s blog, and I found her through one of those serendipitious (?!) conversations that resulted in me putting a random phrase into Google … I’m now going to follow some of your links, and see what other pearls I can find! Thank you!
October 7th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
[...] slowly making my way through them, trying to visit and see what I can learn! I liked the idea of “digital breadcrumbs” mentioned in this post on the blog, Random Ramblings. This is the idea that all these links are like breadcrumbs that we should follow to see where they [...]