{"id":1128,"date":"2007-10-01T16:41:40","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T16:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/making-connections-dave-jeff-and-my-new-friends\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:04:37","slug":"making-connections-dave-jeff-and-my-new-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/making-connections-dave-jeff-and-my-new-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Connections: Dave, Jeff and My New Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was out making new connections at the <a href=\"http:\/\/51weeks.com\/events\/3\">Open Learn Conference<\/a> (check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edtechtalk.com\/EdTechWeekly47\">EdTechWeekly #47<\/a> for some highlights), Dave and Jeff were charging forward making new connections of their own during the <a href=\"http:\/\/vre.upei.ca\/la\/la\/\">New Media Literacies in Learning Landscapes Conference<\/a> in Charlottetown, PEI . As <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogg-ed.com\/2007\/reality-edutv-and-open-second-life\/\">Will notes<\/a>, &#8220;we&#8217;re not quite there yet&#8221; with some of the fun and messy new technologies they are trying out, but as we all know it is not about the technology &#8211; or the content in the case of OpenEd. The connections are where it is at and I&#8217;m so fortunate to live in a time when technology (even messy and sometimes rat infested technology) allows me to make connections with folks like <a href=\"http:\/\/jefflebow.com\/\">Jeff<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davecormier.com\/edblog\/\">Dave<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/index.php\">Scott<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darcynorman.net\/\">D&#8217;Arcy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bavatuesdays.com\/senor-dj-lamb-vancouver-virtuoso-of-vermin\/#comments\">Jim<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca\/brian\/\">Brian<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morgretdesigns.com\/\">Keri<\/a>. I am one lucky gal! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was out making new connections at the Open Learn Conference (check out EdTechWeekly #47 for some highlights), Dave and Jeff were charging forward making new connections of their own during the New Media Literacies in Learning Landscapes Conference in Charlottetown, PEI . As Will notes, &#8220;we&#8217;re not quite there yet&#8221; with some of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3021,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions\/3021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}