Chasing the Dragon's Tale

For anyone reading this outside of Belmont University, this post may seem a bit strange, but I promised to introduce Chasing the Dragon's Tale to a class of graduate students (my immediate learning community family) who are currently studying ways to sustain leaning communities. So, here goes: First of all... what is the Dragon? In my first post to this blog back in early March 2004, I explored the Dragon's 'tail' vs 'tale' question. Basically the metaphor is that of a rapidly changing world of technology that includes people who need/want to be aware of what is going on technologically, and with every step toward gaining personal mastery of computers, the technology seems to have already moved one (or several) step ahead... the pace of that movement means that many of us are either left behind or constantly chasing after an ever faster moving target, the technology dragon. In another post, I looked at what generational gaps mean to higher education... this is an area that affects my personal work and may be the seed of a thesis concept. Let me introduce you to a couple of other bloggers who I consider part of my 'learning community of bloggers':

Dr. Lawley at Rochester Institute of Technology publishes regularly at momamusings

James Farmer is an educational technologist in Melbourne, Australia who writes Incorporated Subversion

The generally anonymous author of the University of Texas Pan Am's Teaching Online in Higher Education

CogDogBlog (CDB) is Alan Levine's fenced-in area to bark about instructional technology projects at the Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction (mcli), at the Maricopa Community Colleges, Arizona

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