I also think that everyone wants to be the one who invented the ___. There is no limit to what we can accomplish if we do not care who gets the credit. I have participated on wikis and worked to help things along. I’ve always been one of those that believes that if I work and contribute in a meaningful way with my best that God handles the rest and He always has.

Although others may not agree with this viewpoint, none of us got into teaching for the money, so I hope we can see people who are willing to bow their “Pet project” to the greater good as the best tool emerges for edublogger collaboration.

I really like the evironment that you have set up! Thank you for not just ranting but doing something about it!

Wikipedia works because it covers everything. The minute you try to narrow down a field you get problems – someone sets up a resource about Education 2.0, someone sets one up about Educational Technology, someone sets one up about Elearning, someone sets one up about Edublogging and before long you have mutliple projects with each garnering a bit of support for a while then sputtering out.

This goes against what I thought Web 2.0 is about – decentralisation of resources, rather than centralised repositories.

I think you were heading in a better direction when you were talking about creating a common del.ici.us tag – but even this approach suffers from the definition problem – what’s edublogreading-rated and what’s not?.

I think we are better off finding ways to aggregate existing resources, rather than build more resources (which only point to other resources anyway). And it should be up to us a individuals to decide how we aggregate existing resources, not use a tag someone has nominated.

Great point… I created a Comments, Concerns, Discussions page in the wiki (http://eduwikipedia.pbwiki.com
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I have copied your comment there– I hope that is ok. I just feel you are so right– we need to focus — and change, educational technology, and read / write implications for education seems like a perfect focal point to me.

In closing, I think this is a great idea, but I would personally like to see it focused closely on topics like change, educational technology, and read / write implications for education. If it gets any larger, it will be too diaphonous to use or hang on to.

What we need is a master Index where we can all link to all things wonderful and good that we are doing in our own education 2.0 spaces.

The easiest way I see to do that is through a wiki. So please join me over on EduWikipedia- The place for us all to get our collective act together!

http://eduwikipedia.pbwiki.com
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Share it wide and far in all your networks.

Together we can create a Table of Contents for a collective repository of Educational Web 2.0 related tools, resources, experts and so on.

After we create the sections in the Index– we still continue to create in our own spaces, we just link what we create in EduWikipedia– so we can all benefit from the awesome things we are all doing to improve education.

Join me… help create this incredible resource!