Global Ed Web

I woke up this morning with the words Global Ed Web in my head. As I was waking up, it seemed like it was a thing I was working toward. Some type of "community or practice", as my friend Tracy likes to say, where Lifelong Learners at all levels would be able to find and share what they're working on. Both techniques and tools, and also samples of the output with links to more complete collections.

That was a bit energizing. It also suggested to me that in the long run, it might be better to separate my output from the techniques and tools. I've bounced back and forth (as people who've been here a while know!) between putting all my stuff on a single Substack and running a separate one for my History output and my Lifelong Learning. I don't think I'll make any immediate changes, but it seems to me that if I was imagining a place where people got together in a community of sorts to talk about self-education, I might not want to be barraged with all the details of what each member happened to be learning or teaching, front and center. It might be cooler of members could post something like Notes about what they were doing, that folks could follow when they had the time and interest. Then the main content of the community could be people talking about the work they're doing, what's working and what they're struggling with, etc.; rather than actually posting it. Ironically, I guess that's "tell, don't show."

I'll think more and share more about "Global Ed Web" as it takes shape in my head. For the moment, I'm just enjoying the direction the words seem to be leading me.