One thing we discussed as we prepared for our talk at ELI 2008 was that we should all confront our own personal fears and some of us did that. Barbara talked about fear as a faculty member using blogs to teach of being exposed, making a mistake, or generally looking stupid in front of her…

I left this really long comment on Alan’s blog and thought it deserved its own space. We all discussed this to some extent while at the conference and obviously, I had a lot of thoughts. Thanks Alan, for spurring them again. Here’s the comment: I have a love/hate relationship with conferences. On the one hand,…

Here’s the list of solutions to fear that was generated during our session. I’ll post our videos soon. How do you overcome fear? having the conversation pool your strengths accountability make mistakes new skills understand the problem how to get people to pay attention need a decision-making process make yourself aware of what’s out there…

I’m in San Antonio at the Educause Learning Institute annual conference. Highlights so far have been hanging out with some great and interesting people: Barbara G., Barbara S., Leslie, Martha, Brian Lamb, Alan Levine and more. I also saw Henry Jenkins and George Siemens give a couple of interesting talks. My impressions were that Jenkins…