Being a Node

I just realized that I am a node. Recently I have been thinking about networking in my own district and in my own school. Most likely everyone else has had this thought already, but I just realized how powerful it can be. In my district there are 10 people who do instructional technology at the school level. We don't see each other often enough, but we do support and learn from each other.

This morning I just realized that each one of us is a NODE on the network. That is an incredibly powerful concept (which probably the rest of my collegues understood long ago.) I have resources in people and experience and they connect to through me. They are each NODES that I can benefit from.

I have never thought about myself as a node before. I do have connections and experience and need to be sharing more and when I need something I need to think of my local nodes first.