{"id":96,"date":"2005-08-09T11:41:13","date_gmt":"2005-08-09T11:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2005-08-09T11:41:13","modified_gmt":"2005-08-09T11:41:13","slug":"oasis-in-the-desert-of-busyness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Oasis in the desert of busyness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I quite like this version of what blogging is about and for:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When a learner sits down and blogs, she\/he is engaging in a reflective process. Nebulous thoughts and feelings are put to words. External ideas are scrutinized. The natural capacity of harmonizing our emotions and thoughts with ideas and concepts is evoked. A small cognitive and emotional oasis in the desert of busynes[s]. And, I imagine more learning occurs in only a few minutes here than hours any where else&#8230;<br \/>(from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.connectivism.ca\/blog\/29\">Siemens&#8217; Connectivism Blog<\/a>, a real treasure)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;and I&#8217;m thinking that this is another facet of Gardner Campbell&#8217;s notion of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?m=20040803\">&#8220;real school&#8221;<\/a>, and that Rudy Rucker&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/tenure\/wetware.html\">wetware<\/a> fits in too. Obviously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I quite like this version of what blogging is about and for: When a learner sits down and blogs, she\/he is engaging in a reflective process. Nebulous thoughts and feelings are put to words. External ideas are scrutinized. The natural capacity of harmonizing our emotions and thoughts with ideas and concepts is evoked. A small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}