Thinking Allowed.

Thinking Allowed has moved … finally.

So I finally got my butt in gear and put my money and my effort where my mouth was.  My thoughts over the past few years hosted here terrifically by Edublogs have been exported and imported to their new – hopefully permanent – location.  Edublogs combined with the power of Wordpress have provided an amazing service, helping me find my voice online and participate in a conversation that pushed my thinking and continued my learning.

I am grateful.  Thanks Edublogs.

The introduction of ads onto my educational blog was perhaps inevitable and completely understandable from Edublogs side, but not something I wanted.  It served as an impetus for me to take control of my online identity, learn more about Wordpress installs, coding and such, and finally take that last step into owning, managing, and developing a domain.

With the change in location comes a change in name as well. 

“The old king is dead! Long live the king!” – Coldplay, Viva la Vida

My continued online thoughts on education, techonology, learning and leadership will take place at my new blog, Building Understanding.  (more on the name can be found in the first post over at B.U.)

If you have enjoyed or been provoked by anything you’ve read here at Thinking Allowed, I hope that you will join me at Building Understanding and subscribe to that feed as well.  I have redirected the Thinking Allowed Feedburner feed, so many of you will automatically be subscribed to the new site.

Here at Thinking Allowed, I have made some good “friends” who have been part of a great conversation.  I didn’t ask you to help me move, but I hope you’ll join me at my new place.

image by RBerteig, found using Flickr Creative Commons

Technology can do a lot of things.

Some are faster ways to do tedious things (like repeated calculations, making graphs, or maintainig draft versions of writing).  These are helpful.

Others provide flashy ways to present ideas (like web sites, presentations, and publications).  These can be incredibly powerful.  They can also be painfully mis-used.

But there is a part of technology that we have only begun to tap into that is transformational.  There are things technology can do for us now, that simply were not possible before.

Technology can connect us to anyone.

Watch this.

(you most likely have seen this Connectivism video at either Wes Fryer’s blog or Jenny Luca’s)

Pretty powerful.  And technology allows us to do that now.