There's a story that Will Robinson tells, perhaps apocryphal, Â about a student that took their first draft of a paper, and posted it to Wikipedia. After a week or so they took it down, newly edited, fact checked and sourced.
Well, maybe this will work, and maybe it won't, but I'm involved in writing an academic technology vision statement (along with compratriot Jenny Darrow), and I couldn't help but think of that story. Why labor in the dark when so many people smarter than me read this blog?
So I'd like to invite any of you that read this and have ideas about what an Academic Tech Vision document should look like to comment over at:
http://atvision.pbwiki.com
The password is highway61. You can upload your own idea of a vision plan, or comment on ours. The idea is, if this is sucessful, to create our plan in a way that is a testament to net-enabled methods of creation.
And it it fails... well, I think it's a noble act to attempt to eat your own dogfood. So we'll soldier on. But I really do invite all the people that stop by here occasionally to comment or post their own idea on the wiki... that crowd includes, but is not limited to, Stephen Downes, Jon Udell, Jim Groom, Martha Burtis, Andy Rush, Leigh Blackall, Bernard Lunn, Royce Robertson, Richard Nantel, Jeff McClurken, Artichoke, Nils Peterson, Harold Jarche, Scott Wilson, Jerry Slezak, Gardner Campbell, Bill Fitzgerald, etc. (sorry I don't have time to link all those names).
Actually looking at that list of people who have commented or linked here, I'm suddenly struck by how blessed this blog, at less than six months old, has been. It's kind of overwhelming, really: you get any two people from that above list together, and you probably have a brain trust. Three and it's a think tank.
So let me add that whether you help Jenny and I out with comments or not, I'm really just stunned how gracious people have been with their comments and links to date, and grateful.
So maybe see you over there? (And if you want to sport a link to the project and invite your own friends to help, as always, very much appreciated...)
http://atvision.pbwiki.com
password: highway61
(The best address to reach me at is caulfield.mike@gmail.com if you have any questions. And yes, after I get this done, I WILL finish the Pecha Kucha project.).
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