The importance and seriousness of silly

The Seriousness of Silly Dean Shareski Social Learning Summit April 21, 2012

Don’t dismiss

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/thomaslevinson/1333521561

Descriptive, Not Prescriptive

Jabiz RaisdanaJakarta, IndonesiaTeacher, husband, Dad@intrepidteacherhttp://www.jabizraisdana.com/http://shareski.ca/y/15h

How do we “sell” social media?

“Turns out Facebook is a lot like Facebook”Clay Shirky

“Bringing smart peopletogether is an ancient andeffective technique fordeveloping ideas. The Net alsolets smart people connect andcommunicate. But the Netbrings people together in newand occasionally weirdconﬁgurations—a weirdnessthat is now being reﬂected inhow expertise works....”

Tim LauerPortland, ORPrincipal, Dad, Pizza lover@timlauerhttp://timlauer.org/

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/lewiselementary

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/timlauer/

http://ink361.com/#/users/237813/photos

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/courosa/3165154438"If people did not do sillythings, nothing intelligentwould ever get done."- Ludwig Wittgenstein

http://ushahidi.com/

Lee KolbertPalm Beach, FloridaTech Coordinator, HockeyMom@teachakiddhttp://www.leekolbert.com/http://shareski.ca/y/15g

Linked In Out

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/georgecouros/4526034883“I don’t teach subjects, I teach kids”

“I don’t connect to resources, I connect to people”

Different Spaces Loosely Joined

http://zefrank.com

Bud HuntNorthern ColoradoInstructional Technologist,Writer, Dad@budtheteacherhttp://www.budtheteacher.comhttp://shareski.ca/y/165

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/woscholar/2622117022

Bonnie StewartCharlottetown, PEIWriter, Researcher,Educator, Blogger, Mom@bonstewarthttp://cribchronicles.com/http://shareski.ca/y/15f

Being real

http://www.talknerdytomelover.com/home/2011/4/21/howto-get-started-on-twitter.html“I don’t get twitter”

Stain(ski)Dean Shareski@shareskihttp://shareski.ca

http://ideasandthoughts.org	218
http://tweetedtimes.com	26
http://flavors.me	9
http://feeds.feedburner.com	4
http://de.flavors.me	2
https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net	1
http://darcynorman.net	1
http://feeds2.feedburner.com	1
http://jp.flavors.me	1

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