{"id":367,"date":"2006-04-21T21:08:49","date_gmt":"2006-04-22T03:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=367"},"modified":"2006-04-21T21:08:49","modified_gmt":"2006-04-22T03:08:49","slug":"notes-on-notes-on-remarkable-things-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/notes-on-notes-on-remarkable-things-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes on Notes on Remarkable Things, I"},"content":{"rendered":"

The blogosphere keeps leading me to more wonderful things. Dorine Ruter (I’m sorry to omit the umlaut) linked to my post below. I saw the link as a trackback, and went to Dorine’s blog<\/a>, where I read her fascinating account of experiments by Christine Brons<\/a> in using video to facilitate analysis of teaching and learning. It will be no surprise to any parent, but still a wonder to all human beings, to read that the brain of a two year old is so complex that one must freeze the video frame every three seconds to take stock of the rich responsiveness of that toddler in a learning situation–even when the learning is indirect because the teacher interaction is happening with another child.<\/p>\n

My own learning took several leaps forward by reading Dorine’s post. Her use of my own post in an even richer context helped me learn a great deal about my own experience and questions. Her meditation on those questions resonated very powerfully with my own mulling, but took it all forward another step, just as a rich conversation will do. She introduced me to Christine Bron’s work, which I will now investigate (though to date there is no English version available–time to learn Dutch). And by going to Dorine’s Bloglines blogroll, I found yet another blog<\/a> that I have added to my own desultory reading list.<\/p>\n

And of course Dorine lives in the Netherlands, and I have never met her, though on this day she was a true colleague and mentor. Astonishing.<\/p>\n

In some respects, the indirect commentary, the distributed conversation, the citation paradigm of blogs that quote and link to other blogs and the trackbacks that make the citations immediately visible, all pry loose some things that might otherwise stay stuck. Or to put it another way, the distributed conversation is less about back-and-forth and more about building toward something we will all have created. In that way, it actually feels more permanent. To see some of my own ideas not just replied to, but actually used in another context, is a very powerful motivator and deeply satisfying. Scholars have always found these satisfactions, but they’ve never come so quickly–or with such creative energy a consistent part of the experience.<\/p>\n

Sometimes it’s hard not to be awestruck by what blogs enable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The blogosphere keeps leading me to more wonderful things. Dorine Ruter (I’m sorry to omit the umlaut) linked to my post below. I saw the link as a trackback, and went to Dorine’s blog, where I read her fascinating account … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bHwM-5V","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}