Learn from the experts!

I have to admit, I'm finding this blogging stuff hard. For a person that seems to have plenty to say... I'm sort of blogless. Even looking at the prompt that was supposed to get us started didn't spur much action. I find I still feel very overwhelmed by all the tools and applications that are available. There's so much out there to learn and try and apply and ... just grow with. And it's growing exponentially!

So I turned to the "experts." I started reading more articles and blogs from my RSS reader. There is a self-deprecating principal that seems pretty logical. I'll avoid any logical principal cracks. Believe or not, I like my job. Some of these experts write pretty well.

But what really appeals are those that offer straight forward, easy to understand advice and suggestions.

Chris Betcher's blog has a link to his thoughts on Five Simple Skills that he feels every educator should possess as they work towards becoming 21st century facilitators. I won't give away all his secrets here, but I suggest you check them out in more detail at his site. In list form they are:

• Learn to search
• Learn to resize and crop a digital photo
• Learn to edit video
• Learn to use a HTML editor
• Learn to think in hyperlinks.

After reading his suggestions, I started to feel a bit better. Maybe I can't claim a huge PLN yet. But I'm at least 75% of the way to having the basic skills that one of experts values. And, he uses Wikipedia too!