Last night's class was an interesting preview of what we could possibly learn in this class and what other things we could actually pursue on our own. The entire ride home my mind was thinking about various topics for Response Papers and Independent Learning Papers. The search orientation results gave me some good starting points - blogs, podcasting, wikis, web 2.0. I jotted some of these ideas down to use as keywords in my searches.
The lecture on the "Triangle of Collaboration" also provided some food for thought. My three other classes have focused a lot on collaboration, but it is always with the classroom teacher with some mention of collaborating with specials (i.e., art, music, etc.) and administration, but no one has ever mentioned collaborating with IT. Reflecting on your presentation this seems like a major omission in the collaboration philosophy. The LMC has become so technology-driven that IT would be a natural partner. I think teachers see IT as a "support" service rather than an integral part of teaching. Yet another preconceived notion that needs changing.
I'm looking forward to figure out how to use these new tools to share information with students and colleagues and also how to use them to retrieve information. There is so much information out on the Web in the form of blogs and wikis that I want to be able to use on a regular basis.
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Because of my conversations with SLMSs who are collaborating with IT, I would have assumed people have already included IT. It's interesting to know that collaboration as you've encountered it has only been bilateral. As far as T/SLMS bilaboration (my term), IT specialists might be seen as a collaboration model with IT being the augmentation instead of the example I showed where SLMSs are the augmentation.
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