OK, so I'm a little behind the eight ball as I think I'm one of the last Rasmuson persons to get started on this 2.0 thing. But I thought I'd dive into the whole Up with Learning atmosphere by actually using this blog to record something new I've learned each day....I'm actually curious myself. But first two questions spring to mind:
1. why is it called Learning 2.0?? Did we skip 1.0?? Maybe the committee thought we were all advanced enough to skip ahead a level. What would Learning 1.0 have consisted of? Starting an email account, making a Word document?? I confess I only skimmed Karen J.'s initial email so she very well could have explained all this.
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2. Where does the phrase "behind the eight ball" come from?? And honestly what does it mean?? Maybe when I have a slow morning, I'll look into this.
But the thing I learned in the last 24 hours is from Terrence Cole's walking guide of downtown which I was doing with some of my family who are visiting. We are good talkers and eaters so we only made it down 1st avenue yesterday, but I had no idea that the News Miner offices used to be in the old Masonic lodge and no clue that the Rebecah lodge building on the corner of 1st and Cowles (now the site of Candy Waugaman's new museum) was once a bathhouse in the 1920s or thereabouts. And I knew about water wagons in early Fairbanks times, but I didn't know that when people wanted some water, they put a piece of paper in their window indicating how many buckets they wanted so the water wagon knew to stop. Sort of like the UPS system businesses use today.
And you heard it here first, Candy's museum is fabulous and absolutely worth a visit!
3 comments:
I believe is it called learning 2.0 because it is about learning 2nd generation web technologies or web 2.0. You will learn more about web 2.0 in later lessons like 15 adn 19. Good Question :)
Wendi, the answer to your "eight ball" question wasn't in the dictionaries of English-language idioms or figures of speech -- not those I checked in the Ref. section. However, I Googled (origin OR etymology) "behind the eight ball", and found this, from "The Free Dictionary", by Farlex (http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/behind+the+eight+ball):
Etymology: from the game of pool (= a game played on a special table with sticks and numbered balls), in which you do not want to have any ball positioned behind the black ball marked with a number 8
--Paul
Interesting! Thanks for doing my legwork, Paul.
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