Fireside Learning:  Conversations about Education

sent to me via a direct tweet from Skip Zilla
What's the structure of your "cupboard"? Same as your parents, different? How much openness is there to restructuring your "cupboards?" (cupboard is what, mindframe?) A peculiar, interesting, unsettling video.
My cupboard isn't even rectangular with drawers, I'm organized more like the ecosystem of a swamp. ;-)

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Connie Weber Comment by Connie Weber on September 6, 2009 at 8:54am
Thanks for the note, Skip. That's a nice story about using Twitter in a meaningful way. (Twitter still makes me queasy, like standing under a waterfall holding onto a drinking cup. I don't know why I react to it in particular that way... why wouldn't I feel the same at Fireside or my other social networks?)
Appreciating your marvelous resource-sharing... Thanks for the video!
Skip Zilla Comment by Skip Zilla on September 6, 2009 at 8:22am
Had direct messaged about seventy-five fellow twitterers with link to this video. Range of DM responses was broad. Many said simple story captured life insight/lesson they could relate to in their own experience. A rabbi said in effect, "Why are you singling me out?," until I further messaged him that I sent video to many who I thought might make good use of it in their work, especially work with children who are aware of self-questions of diversity; When he realized I wasn't accusing him of anything, he replied gratefully that he could indeed make use of the video. A number of "community developers" and social entrepreneurs replied favorably about video's insight into how biases are learned and how personal contact across cultural divides can as result of learned biases be diminished. Even a few business leaders and career coaches saw uses.

All in all, the messaging was an interesting experiment in simple storytelling for me. An attempt to reach out to others in my Twitter community with a positive and useful message that might be passed on and put to good use.

Thanks for doing just that--passing message on and putting video to good use.

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