As I start some associative trails for Connected Courses I took time this morning to listen and make some notes on Catherine Cronin’s keynote at #Altc recently. I will be writing another post as I explore and read more associative trails, but here I wanted to offer my Vialogue notes as an open resource for others of you who may want to join this conversation.
In the spirit of our community guidelines, I welcome contributions that occupy the space Rumi spoke about so eloquently:
Let’s navigate the marvellous together!
If you have not got, or do not want, an account with Vialogues (I think one is needed to comment on their site) feel free comment here.
doublemirror 
September 8, 2014 at 6:21 pm
Thank you for sharing your Vialogue, Mariana. I’ve not come across Vialogues before and I appreciate how useful it is being able to read someone else’s comments alongside a presentation (like reading other people’s Kindle notes– fascinating!) I am interested how the process of #ccourses will be– and I hope that I will be able to wander through other’s fields in the pursuit of ideas that will work for me.
September 8, 2014 at 5:30 pm
Hello Mariana! I’ve been seeing that Rumi quote a lot recently. What is your interpretation? (And thank you for being such an active and thoughtful lead learner in #ccourses)
September 8, 2014 at 7:32 pm
Hi, Howard.
That poem is an ‘old friend’. I read a lot of poetry and write many private ‘ramblings’ (poetry would be too grand a name for them) For me, Rumi expresses in all his poems a lived experience of what some might call ‘God’ and he calls ‘the beloved’. I connect with a different realm (something other than cognition/language) through it. This particular poem expressed for me long ago the idea that if we are able to engage with each other letting go of our right/wrong filters then genuine connection can emerge…I see much less of that type of engagement online than I would like. Although, there is little of it in our society as a whole. We seek easy and absolutes more often than to change our minds