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I always admire folks who dream big, so when all of my friends at Joyful Jubilant Learning came up with the “7 Wonders” project I thought, “Right On!”
Why not celebrate the symmetry of 07/07/07 by looking for 777 links to great learning? Sounded like a plan to me.
So, in support of this “big, hairy and audacious” goal, I ask all of my readers to take these two steps:
1. Between now and Saturday, July 07, 2007 take your personal leaps of wonder:
- Listen, Laugh, and Learn as much as you can from the collective wisdom online.
- Link to the JJL post and spread the good word for us!
- If you blog, feel free to grab the banner on this post to promote the event on your own site, and proclaim yourself as a JJL Contributor.
You will be Loving, Living, and Leaping to wonder as you take these first steps!
2. On (or before) Saturday, July 07, 2007 return to the original JJL post, and enter your favorite 7 Learning Links in the comments.
They can be from your own site, or from others. Along with each link, designate which of our JJL Learning categories you feel they best fit into, for we will be compiling them on this master page by category:
Compilation: 7 Wonders of Joyful Jubilant Learning
There you have it – an opportunity to be a part of something really, really big. I hope you can join us.
What are my 7 favorite learning links? I’ll post them here and on JJL:
- “Brother George and the Mid-Term” – my favorite personal learning experience. And right up there as one of the most important in my life.
- “Jots and Iotas: How a Dictionary Became a Fountain of Learning” – this is a sequel of sorts to #1, and a tribute of another sort to the word “insouciant“.
- “The Seven Most Important Words” – another key learning event for me, and it also ties in nicely with the number 7 theme.
- “A World of Change Makers” – this one is by Steve Farber, and it was an elegantly simple and profound piece of learning in the form of a question: “Where is it written, where’s the universal law that says doing great business, amplifying personal joy and meaning and changing the world are mutually exclusive ideas?”
- “The 10 Secrets to Our Success – The Sequel” – This was a personal learning project, winnowing 36 factors down to 10, with the help of some great fellow bloggers.
- “Return to Hope on a Laptop” – Sometimes you also cry when you learn.
- “The Ferrari Analogy For Organized Writing” – This one is very important to me, for many reasons. It clarified my thinking on how I should write (and therefore blog), it introduced me to Liz Strauss, one of the best teachers in the blogosphere, and it led to one of the best learning weekends of my life, SOBCon07. Not bad for one little post!
So what are your favorite 7? Let’s get joyful and jubilant and get those 777 links!
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And sometimes you get tears in your eyes when you think what one little post can do. . .
Ain’t that the truth. Thanks Liz.
Terry it’s been a while. Love the concept of 777. I’ll look into it.
Hi Herman, happy 4th! Hope you can participate in this project – I’d be quite interested to see your 7 favortie learning posts. Thanks, and all the best.