Jeffrey Keefer

Hey Scott and colleagues, this is Jeffrey Keefer from New York. I am really looking forward to this topic, as I have never actively thought about it in this space before.

My title at my full-time position is Project Manager, Instructional Design, which means I manage educational projects and integrate my skills as a long-time instructional designer to help meet the adult learning needs for whichever population we are preparing instruction. Working full-time in a large homecare (nursing) organization, there is a constant need for (evidence-based) education. When I am not working there, I am an adjunct instructor at New York University in Management Communication and Leadership and Human Capital Management.

With all this said and done, I am learning that the people who freely share their materials are often the ones who are the most passionate educators, as those of us who are teachers at heart often want to educate anybody who is open to learning something we already know.

I am really interested in more formally discussing this process and related issues here with all of you, especially in Scott's most capable hands.

Great; I am playing around with Protopage now.

Along the same, or rather related, line, I have started to use the Speed Dial add-in for FireFox, which allows me to see a number of websites at once and then quickly navigate to the ones I like. That is my current homepage; why have only one when I can more easily see 9?!

Protopage reminds me of both Netvibes as well as PageFlakes. I wonder if anybody has compared them (as I do not see many differences between them having used the first two quite a bit).

Jo Ann-

I think I need to bottle what you have!
How do you do this practically, with blogs and news and Facebook and Twitter and even faciliated sessions like this one? If I only had to keep up with what I already follow, then that would be one things. However, nearly a day goes by without finding something else interesting or useful or engaging. Managing the new to me seems to be the biggest challenge!

Jeffrey

How conscious are you of the practices that serve you in managing your multimembership?

I really like this question, as it leads to the topic of reflective practice in multimembership. When I started becoming increasingly aware of and active with social media, I did not think of managing it. There was just something new for me to increasingly do and then remain engaged in. Like many online endeavors, I find it starts small, and then suddenly I found I was spending time more than once a day, and then eventually started to feel behind . . .

On a daily basis, I do not think about this because reflective practice as a concept is a little more intentional; I need to focus upon it by letting go of the daily grind and challenges to my time. In other words, when I actively begin to consider this issue, it is usually because what I am doing is not working, so I am forced to try something new to change my status quo.

What I want to do, and am making an effort as a result of our ongoing discussion here on SCoPE, is to bring this reflectivity to my daily life, so once I catch up and successfully manage my multimemberships, I will then remain caught up.

The lingering question, is how to work reflectivity into a daily routine without it becoming just one more of a long list of things to do!

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Jeffrey Keefer
Blog: http://silenceandvoice.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/JeffreyKeefer
Website: http://www.jeffreykeefer.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreykeefer