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I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends

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The first rule of fight club is to…. Oh wait! Wrong club... Beware the Ides of March Salvete omnes! I was visiting YouTube the other day, my home away from home if you will, and in between my usual viewings of cat videos I was able to watch a video titled, New Media Consortium . In the video the presenter, Adam Levine, discusses the importance of establishing a network of colleagues, both in and outside of your discipline, to experiment and explore new techniques of integrating technology in the classroom. The most important thing, I think, Adam says in the video is, “ it is really important for us to stay connected to people who are smarter than because we can’t know everything ”. I think it was important for me, and for other people who may be like me, to hear that it is okay to reach out for help. Being someone who wants to be able to do and know it all, this is not something that comes to mind easily. Adam’s whole video really emphasized the necessity of having a Perso...