We’re all interested in learning, to have joined ocTEL (or we really like badges, and being online :-)). It seems that there are participants from a range of backgrounds and experiences. Some are educators looking to bring ‘something special’ to their teaching, others are keen to share their expertise and make new connections, others are interested to experience online learning for themselves, and others bring a more technical perspective – all have a different level of skills. I think that this brings the challenge of how to enable each individual to participate in ways that they feel comfortable with, yet at the same time feel challenged by. I believe the course team are addressing this by aggregating the Various channels of communication that participants have chosen, so that the choice is up to the individual – bloggers, tweeters, google+rs (is that even a word?!), and advising us to try something new….. Which means it will help many of us in our roles of educators to empathise if or when we introduce new (and hopefully innovative, fun and sound) ways of Learning.