I really appreciate all you have done, I’m sorry I could not take advantage of all of it. During the first weeks when the momentum was high I was so overwhelmed with the information that I kept missing the meetings, by the time I started visiting I met others there just once, the other times there was no one. I didn’t get to meet you in world touch I enjoyed the bike ride. Thanks a lot.

What you mention about wikis happens to me as well, people like to go and move around but only few collaborate.

You are not off the wagon, as you mention, the wagon is still there with all the goodies inside.

I hope to keep in touch with you. Have a nice week. Maru :X

I cannot thank you enough for all your work and the opportunity you’ve provided all of us to interact and connect. I was a regular at the weekly Tuesday meetings and although I’ve missed your presence, I’ve met other intelligent and articulate people with whom I have had great conversations on what learning meant. I’ve enjoyed every single meeting - even the ones where only two of us showed up.

It was a worthwhile experience for me. I will miss my weekly connectivism meetings in SL.

SL can be a fairly intimidating platform for someone coming for the first time with no prior 3D experience, I think. As you point out, this project took a lot of your time, and I can imagine someone who signed up and logged on a few times deciding it would take too much of their time just to get comfortable with the SL basics to be of value to them.

And, once again, getting a glimpse of all the ‘behind the scenes’ work you do I am left thinking, “She’s gotta be at least three people, one person can’t do all that stuff”.

I think I read somewhere regarding what makes a good website - if it takes more than two or three clicks to get the viewer where they want to go, you’ll probably lose them. I think the principle applies to wikis and SL. It takes several clicks to participate in wikis and an untold number of ‘clicks’ to do anything at all in SL. That’s time and I think everyone takes that into account, “How much time do I have for this? Is there a faster way that I am familiar with?”

Blog comments are easy. A couple of clicks and I am done. One click and I can come back and see if there is a conversation going on, even if it is asynchronous, there still can be a flow to blog comments just like forum posts - a format I am more familiar with.

I think I can speak for everyone officially in the SL Cohort in saying you more than participated in #CCK08 you provided examples of the points we discussed in a way that engaged and educated us. Having the metaphor of the reading room helped me overcome being overwhelmed by the material and, as the course material suggests, connecting with you over the material allowed us to make other connections to more knowledge and each other. If not for you my avatar would be standing on some poor avatar’s head as I try to figure out how to create a square. In other words, you were a facilitator/instructor to most of us. I hope we will stay in touch at some level. I continue to grow from your expertise. Stop me before I rez again. :)