Think Globally, Act Locally

Posted by Kenneth Ronkowitz on


Do you remember the phrase "think globally, act locally" that came about during the early green days of Earth Day? Save the Earth, but start by saving your backyard, hometown etc.

In my eco-mind, that's also good advice for teachers. I like to see teachers create their own sites for their school community. If you're doing that on the Net using blogs, wikis, social networks and such, you obviously are going to reach a wider audience too. All the better.

I came across this post by Beth Ritter-Guth who teaches at Lehigh Carbon Community College in Pennsylvania. She wrote on "Educational Technology and Web 2.0 in Colleges and High Schools" and the piece included a screenshot of of a search she did on educational technology+. What caught my eye was that of the 2,170,000 hits she got, Serendipity35 was number 2. Yipes! What were her search terms?

Beth seems to be a good example of all this. She has a bunch of blogs. The post I linked to above is from her blog about teaching in Second Life and she has another blog about literature in SL. She's also acting locally with a wiki on free educational tools and another wiki on college English.

I continue to love the serendipitous nature of the Web (it is a wonderland for all us ADD types) and how it has connected me to people like her. Turns out we are both at community colleges, both on Classroom 2.0 and both big advocates of open source in all its forms. And I love that you and your students can create and publish online and gain a huge audience and make local and global connections.

The World Wide Web seems so much better than the World lately.

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