Bonnie commented on my last post and offered some great opportunities for synergy with what we learned in Social Media to enhance intergrated learning with LPD and CRL.

'Matt-- and Tomas--
This makes sense to me. I am always conscious that under each complaint is a commitment: in this case I believe it is a commitment to get maximum value from our time at BGI, and for the school to be everything it promises to be, in every sense. Yes, BGI is a young school, and while the growing pains are felt by all of us, the opportunity to take this kind of complaint to action is huge.

So for the record, I also feel that these Personal Learning Journal blogs have been not only of the kind of great value to me that I think both LPD and CRL are intending, but in fact have been a MORE effective space for the kind of free reflection those two classes aim for.

My vote is more coordination between LPD and CRL, and that we find a way to integrate pretty much all the first half of Christopher's class into the curriculum of the entire school, primarily through LPD and CRL. Then EVERYONE gets the benefits of these skills and tools-- it kind of kills me to think that only some of us have access to this class-- and then when Using the Social Web for Social Change is offered again as a DLM course, the participants are starting with a well-established base of skills and can get going directly into what is currently the second half of the course. I would be happy to talk to anyone in the faculty or administration to tease out the details.'

Beth is incorporating our learning from this class and trying to integrate it right now;

'Emailed Taj tonight about using this blog as a medium for my CRL portfolio... we'll see what she says. I think it would be a great experiment in how to use the learning journal blog concept across various classes and types of assignments.'

Manan and Karen also seek more rigor and execution so I see a use for AI and bring it forward in our LPD/CRL as a commitment to making our last two semester count and leave a legacy as competent change agents for future cohorts to look to for inspiration of what is possible. Table topic, next steps?