{"id":1181,"date":"2015-06-03T10:37:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T14:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2015-06-03T10:37:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T14:37:09","slug":"dear-tom-woodward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1181","title":{"rendered":"Dear Tom Woodward"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank you for your invitation to participate in both OLE<\/a> and Teaching With WordPress<\/a>. Consider this my written acceptance. I plan to attend both courses as I can (“dipping in and out” as Tim Owens describes it<\/a>) 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.<\/p>\n

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?)<\/p>\n

As a hack of the Instant Karma make<\/a> for OLE, I’m thanking you in a general way not just for the help you’ve delivered via Twitter<\/a> but also through your blog<\/a>, one of the few I get via email, and also your use of the Diigo weekly harvest feature<\/a>. 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<\/a>\u00a0about disinformation<\/a> was particularly useful, and I shared it with my students via our Diigo group as well as discussing it in class.<\/p>\n

And it reminded me to show The West Wing video about the maps:<\/p>\n