{"id":70,"date":"2006-08-12T12:37:12","date_gmt":"2006-08-12T12:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davecormier.com\/edblog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2006-08-12T17:51:43","modified_gmt":"2006-08-12T17:51:43","slug":"the-edubloggypodlearnonlinosphere-are-we-a-field-and-if-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davecormier.com\/edblog\/2006\/08\/12\/the-edubloggypodlearnonlinosphere-are-we-a-field-and-if-so\/","title":{"rendered":"The Edubloggypodlearnonlinosphere – Are we a ‘field’ and if so…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve got my right foot on the front of oscar’s rocking chair, in the dark, trying to coax an hour of sleep out of the little tyke. Things have been a little busy here in potato land, and i haven’t gotten nearly all the things done that I would like to… but this has been spinning in my head for a while so…<\/p>\n

If I was to ask you folks who were the leading people in our field (which i’ve so carefully defined in the title) a familiar list of names would probably pop up. A list of people who have affected our practice, who have given us the feeling that the things that we are trying to do, the changes we are trying to affect, are possible and worthwhile.
\nnow…<\/p>\n

I was wandering around wikipedia yesterday after the thought occured to me again that few of the people in our ‘field’ were actually in wikipedia. I was looking for an appropriate category for an entry on another valued member of our community and failed to find a point of reference for it. Will Richardson, who thousands of people a year come out to listen to speak, is not there. I came across Stephen Downes’ entry<\/a> and was shocked to discover this<\/p>\n