The last two mornings I had 12 people add me to circles in Google+ - all from #change11. What a great way to start my day...stepping through each of their pages, reading their Abouts, glimpsing their photos and recent posts, and then adding them to my #change11 circle and occasionally a second circle. I realized that #change11 is a powerful filter for kindred spirits, like Second Life was in 2005 for early adopter changemaking edge-ucators. And I'm really thrilled to be meeting some of the many #change11 participants. I don't take this opportunity to connect for granted. Such an event is still far too rare. So I am making the time to participate (no small feat) and inventing my own ways of participating that are relatively easy to do (like my visual screen captures).
This is by far the largest online gathering of people deeply engaging the future of learning that I've participated in to date (and I've participated in many excellent online learning events). I knew it would be quite a party, that's why I joined the cohort, but living it is even better than I'd imagined. Next post will be about finding a similar, enthusiastic but smaller cohort back in 1999....and collaboratively writing a book online about Creating Learning Communities. This experience of #change11 has reminded me of that time.
