Working together to develop

A week or two ago my husband went to a gathering of teachers sharing their ideas about using technologies. He came back with many new ideas some of which I know he is using. I think it is amazing how much both he and I use ideas shown to us by other people. After I posted about Wordle yesterday we chatted about how we used thoughts and ideas from other people to get a solution to a problem. Someone showed him Wordle, he showed someone else, they worked out how to screen save, showed him and he showed me, I worked out how to save the new picture. I can only describe this as a chain of shared ideas- each in isolation did not produce an outcome anywhere close to what we produced together.


Some genius's may work alone but I think that for most of us we need other people to help us learn. I am learning all the time, watching other people, listening and copying other peoples good ideas. This is not some kind of plagerism, its a way of developing as a person, as any idea borrowed must be adapted to fit our lives.


At the teachers gathering, one thing someone spoke about was Geocaching, which was explained to me as being a bit like playing hide and seek with GPS cordinates telling you where to go to find "caches" of hidden goodies. It  sounds like fun and a way of giving a purpose to going for a walk in places which are so familiar we have tended not to want to bother visiting recently. So I googled Geocaching and found Geocaching.com (http://www.geocaching.com/). Its got a massive list of hide and seek hunts to go on, and so we plan to try one this weekend.

 Another Wordle with some of those keywords for learning and exploring new ideas.

Here are two more Wordles from my favourite poems " I expect to pass through this world but once..." and "...Children grow up when your not looking..."

Until next time

Gillian