Durff challenges us.

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Durff’s Blog: Network Challenge via kwout

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I’ve been doing exactly that for the past weeks. In fact, I’ve been discussing exactly that with a group of educators at http://webtools.ning.com/forum/topics/reading4reflection-stuck-in

It’s just great that Durff asked, for I’ve been thinking ahead and looking for ways to simplify things, but in order to have a clear view of what’s for us in the near and not so near future, we need to evaluate what we’ve been learning.

What I’ve learned this year?

• The importance of deepening our connections in order to add value to our networks and gain from them.

• The value of e-learning is truly in the human interactions and collective construction of meaning

• My essential need of learning, being a lifelong learner

• The rediscovered pleasure of reading and sharing with others what I’m reading about

• The power Twitter holds for me as a connector

• Online Social bookmarking with Diigo

• My need to get deeper into studies about Communities, networking

• It is OK to say no for the sake of your own mental health

• My risen interest in mobile learning

What’s up for the near future?

• Have a wonderful Electronic Village Online experience with the Images4Education group.

• Keep exploring ways to engage learners in an elearning context

• See possibilities for teacher engagement at my school in the ed tech world

• Moving back to Brazil certainly means changes in terms of routine and new professional challenges

• More learning. Maybe Master’s? Who knows?

And the wheel keeps spinning and I want to keep adding value to my network and receiving from it.

Thanks, Durff, for starting this networkchallenge.

What are your plans for 2009?