Friday, March 23, 2007

Oakland Community Voice Orientation

I am sitting in the first OCV orientation along with a core group of some my favorite elder learners. Michelle Shutzer is guiding us through the process and folks are throwing out some really creative names for their blogs.

What is amazing is that these students didn't have a clue what blogging was, but took it on faith that if we suggested they get involved, that it would be worth their valuable time. Is it working. Well I heard several during the break say that "we're always learning something new, and this is really good. The kids are using MySpace to blog now we can do it too".

This is cool, and the class is pumped!

1 comment:

Community Voice said...

Tony, you seem pretty inspired yourself. This class was fantastic and once they all got it they were wowed by the whole thing. Your introduction was inspirational. I think we all apprecited your story of working in radio and realizing that "hearing it is not doing it". You became the change you wanted to create. You also found a great blog example by a 94yr old blogger
http://dontoearth.blogspot.com/

We're so thrilled that Oakland Community Voices are getting online and speaking up!