Thank you for your invitation to participate in both OLE and Teaching With WordPress. Consider this my written acceptance. I plan to attend both courses as I can (“dipping in and out” as Tim Owens describes it) with the hope of being more in than out. I’m doing it for me: a chance to connect with other educators over topics of interest and (re)building a sometime flagging professional learning network.

But, I’m also doing it for you. As a thank you for all the time and effort you have put into helping all of us learn and for creating this intriguing experience. You are a role model of how to use the web for collaboration and connection, and I want to be a small part of that work. (Too sappy?)

As a hack of the Instant Karma make for OLE, I’m thanking you in a general way not just for the help you’ve delivered via Twitter but also through your blog, one of the few I get via email, and also your use of the Diigo weekly harvest feature. The latter was of specific help this weekend as I worked on my class for Monday that focused on data visualization. The article from Visualizing Information For Advocacy about disinformation was particularly useful, and I shared it with my students via our Diigo group as well as discussing it in class.

And it reminded me to show The West Wing video about the maps:

Anyway, thanks again for the invitation.

Karen