I’m an endurance athlete. Whenever I start to feel overwhelmed, I focus on my breathing and find my centre. From there I find a rhythm and regain strength.This is where I am at the moment, in the early stages of an endurance event, regulating.

Over the past two weeks I’ve been a busy with work and assignments, so I haven’t had as much time to devote to the Change 11 eBook as I would have liked. Marshalling my attention again, pushing through the with the project I am recommitting myself to produce content for the Change 11 eBook.

I volunteered to help curate the record of the Change 11 in the form of an ebook because I knew the work in synthesising disparate source would help me make sense of the MOOC. I spent the first two weeks working on template, compiling links and collating blog posts and comments from around the web into an edited group response for Zoraini Wati Abas and Martin Weller. I missed the content from Allison Littlejohn but I am keen to catch up with the conversation that has risen around the presentation by David Wiley.

There are only a few others working on the project, and their roles aren’t very well defined. I’m wondering what I could to do to enhance the interaction of group members. But then again I don’t feel it’s my place, my idea, or my responsibility (it was Dave Cormier’s idea). Therein is one of the inherent difficulties with crowd-sourced content. With a wiki, lots of small contributions make lighter work for everyone, but if one person for just a moment feels as they are doing all the work then the motivation to contribute falls away.

I need a few training partners that are in this for the long haul. I’m prepared to go the distance.

If you want participate in the #change11 ebook project Dave (@davecormier) has posted a an invitation and a quick tutorial on his blog.

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