{"id":460,"date":"2012-11-27T20:33:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T04:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/brannonhamilton\/?p=460"},"modified":"2014-09-05T20:07:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T04:07:20","slug":"lets-keep-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/brannonhamilton\/2012\/11\/27\/lets-keep-talking\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Keep Talking!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Social media and innovation were topics I\u00a0expected to learn about at the Desire2Learn Mobilize event this week – oceans and steam engines not so much. Yet, talking took us to all of these places and my mind was filled with the awe of our changing world.<\/p>\n

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I found myself in a place of like-minded people where age didn\u2019t matter. All that mattered was that we were talking and listening and imagining. I took 16 double-sided pages of notes over the course of 10 hours. I could have flown to England in that time and typing my notes would have been more efficient but I was compelled to stay and write. I didn\u2019t want to miss a thing.<\/p>\n

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I had just spent 2 years studying educational technology at UBC so it wasn\u2019t that the material was new to me. It was the conversation that inspired me. It was finding people who think like I think and finding so many of them together in one place. Passionate people inspire passion in other people. This was a place where \u201cwhat if\u201d was possible.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s only when we stop talking that we become stuck. We create gaps between the ages and lose sight of where we are going. I believe I was in a place filled with visionaries, people who can see connections where others see confusion \u2013 people like me. It was like our own Hogwarts School, a place where there are no boundaries, where age is invisible, and where the unimaginable is possible.<\/p>\n

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Now that I\u2019ve found this inspirational place, I don\u2019t want the conversation to end. I have too much to say and you have so much to teach me. So let\u2019s keep talking!<\/p>\n

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Michele
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