Your mere presence will have an influence

somehow – sometime – somewhere

Well – today I was asked to interact during an ONL seminar… 🙂 HORROR!! I couldn’t do it – maybe something wrong with the software – it worked last session… what is different today???? And Yes I´ve stolen the picture – don’t know where

The technical problems totally took my focus from the seminar – instead I focused on how to get my interaction to work…

HELP

– what did they say now? what should we do? 

I was outside in the dark – I became the – 

“UNINTENTIONAL VISITOR”

One by one the work of others showed up on the screen – after a while I understood what the task was – but still I couldn’t interact

MAYBE AS WELL 

I started to question the task put forward… there where things missing – holes in the given definition

EH – as I saw it 🙂

THE TASK as I understood it

was to look at my appearance in SOCIAL MEDIA – what applications did I use! how did I use them!

I should place my use of applications in a two dimensional diagram, the axis being 

PRIVATE-INSTITUTIONAL and VISITOR-RESIDENT

Looking at this made me think – what is Private? Is the definition of private changing over time or maybe different depending of the context given? The same with institutional – what is that? I started to think about me as an institutional teacher working at an university. My views are my views – hopefully professional views built upon facts or at least interpretations of facts – whatever facts are. Is it even possible to be INSTITUTIONAL?

Then I thought about being a visitor – I certainly felt like a visitor on todays interactive seminar – but everyone there could see that I attended – but I did not interact – which certainly sent a message to those who noticed my inaction – so even if I did not act some people may interpret that as an active  message from me…

In that way it is IMPOSSIBLE TO BE A VISITOR

So todays thinking embryo is:

Your mere presence will have an influence

somehow – sometime – somewhere