Communicating with anyone vs. someone

Chris Collins (a/k/a Fleep) sends a mobile post to her blog because she has no power and no Internet connection. She’s letting her ~2,000 online course mates (in the CCK08 course) know that she won’t be in attendance today. No biggee right? It’s no different than a voice mail sent to a group. Or is it? I  think it’s significant. She’s communicating with anyone.

I’m not sure I could be as creative if I found myself without power or a connection. Perhaps that’s because Fleep seems to have several less wrinkles than I do and doesn’t carry the weight of my prior telecommunication experiences.  Or maybe I’m just not cool.

See, I’d call someone even though anyone would be the better choice for learning (e.g., what was covered during her absence). She’s inviting dialogue over monologue.

Perhaps this little learning moment pushes a different, once valuable tidbit to the back parts of my brain – maybe the one where I need to press 9 to get an ‘outside’ line on a ‘land’ phone. Or the one  where I have to dial. DIAL, get it? Or the one where I have to click the switch mechanism twice to transfer a call. Or the one where I actually have to set the phone DOWN to go get someone. I could go on but the tears would blind me.

These skills are still useful at the antique’s shop down the road – and as a way to reflect on innovation. There is a great need to view these little slices of live as a way to improve the learning process.

It would’ve been cool if I had moblogged this, huh? That settles it then.

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