I would like to ask everybody to get their bios in and if possible to get avatars in as well. Also, even if your bio is already in, please send in your school and city (email that to me and I will update your bio under the Group Members category). Videos as always are optional.
Speaking of videos, I am trying to continue that one class from Lincoln with voice over and translation versions, and there is some video from East High as well that we were kind of in the middle of watching. The easiest for all of us will be to just throw up whatever video is available, not necessarily in order of when it was filmed – otherwise it all gets too complicated. If we have some video we should just put it up.
It will never be the right video. The best classes will never be filmed – it will always be the mediocre ones. It’s that thing about observors changing what gets observed. We just have to let go the feeling that we need to be good enough and look good and all of that. The work is in putting up the video, getting comments, looking for things that could be improved technically, really.
So, make a checklist for getting in:
1) bios, with your school and city
2) avatars
3) videos if applicable
I know that building up trust on the internet is a long shot. We have taken bold steps – at the risk of pissing people off – to ensure that our unique learning community here remains a place where we can use the internet to get real work done. So let’s keep trying to move forward in that interest.