UMW+Brain+Dump

//Just the scratch pad here...//

Themes to touch on:
 * What is "expertise" mean /value in internet age?
 * Understanding / appreciating / pop culture
 * Personal / cognitive / internet overload
 * Online facilitation, enablers, in virtual space, in blog space, in

=All I Needed To Know I Learned ...=

a play on [|Robert Fulghum] (some mock book covers)
 * __"__I Know Nothing" (I am not an expert...) reference to Sgt Schulz on Hogan's Hero's
 * tangent to trivia on [|Hogan's Hero's learned in Wikipedia] (several actors were Jewish, Holocaust survivors); what's not there is the lcoation where actor Bob Crane was murdered is 1/2 mile from my home (photo of apartment). There is some thread here
 * "Everything He Says is a Lie" / "I am Telling the Truth" Harry Mudd conundrum
 * "All I Needed to Know About the Internet, I Learned //on// the Internet"
 * I have no formal training in programming, and technology I use. Yet I learn every day, get no credits for it, no advanced degrees
 * Some more examples and ideas on what some call "informal" learning, the massive amount that is going on outside the walls of academia
 * Some tangent to technology and human behavior- keeping in mind what everyone's favorite subject is
 * Pop Culture references
 * what people in difference eras share in common
 * in my parent's day, it might have been a riff on "Who's on First?" or (almost means nothing to me)
 * I am a product of TV pop culture (bring references to 70s tv shows, SNL skits - desert AND a floor wax, MTV) yet these remain meaningless to today's youth
 * What do pop culture references buy you? (connectivity, commonality) - but they should never obscure the message, only augment for those on the same wavelength
 * Pop Culture and Mashups (Monty Trek) how long will this be meaningful?
 * Pull in some references linkages to Steven Johnson's "Everything That is Bad for you..."
 * "Everything I Learned About Blogging I Learned While... Blogging"
 * Some tidbits, examples to illustrate that it's an experiential in terms of learning
 * "Everything I Learned About Online Facilitating I Learned While... Online Facilitating"
 * Lessons from Maricopa. Alfredo de los Santos "Just get people together in a room, get out of the way" / Alfredo's questions
 * What it means in Second Life