I ever could. Reality is changing constantly, and we all need to ready =
to rock-and-roll with those changes -- it's just that this dinosaur =
doesn't think or move quite that fast!
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From: A forum for independent school educators on behalf of Bill IVEY
Sent: Wed 2/6/2008 8:30 AM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: ISED on a Blog? Your thoughts?
A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> on
Wednesday, February 06, 2008 at 9:05 AM -0500 wrote:
>But it never really was *private*. As far as I knew, there was no one
>standing at the gate saying thumbs up or thumbs down to people who =
wanted
>to
>join. To be sure, it was a *select* group, based on the fact that we =
all
>self-selected to belong here because of our common interests, but since
>*anyone* could join, it was by no means private.
>
>Is there something I'm missing here?
Hi!
I think for some of us, it felt private, precisely because we knew it =
was
people who had enough of an interest in independent education who
self-selected into the group and who were willing to take the time to
participate. While we knew in theory that anything we wrote could be
passed on, it felt like a safe space to say what was really on our =
minds.
You could draw an analogy to opening up our inner selves in =
conversation,
knowing in theory that anything we say could be remembered and passed on
to others, yet still we talk.
So for me, and I suspect for others, knowing that these postings are now
being blogged is coming as a sort of wake-up call that what has felt =
like
a safe and private space may not actually be so. Similarly, I know my =
own
postings became more infrequent, and more carefully filtered, back when =
I
realized they were all being archived. Yes, it never really has been
completely private, I get that. But perceptions create their own =
reality,
and for some of us, it is our perceptions that are shifting now, not the
underlying reality. That's nobody's fault, just - well, just another
reality! Am I making sense?
Take care,
Bill Ivey
Stoneleigh-Burnham School
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