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  • "CCK08: Valdis Krebs on Networks"

    Posted: September 30th, 2008, 11:00am GMT
    So George Siemens and Stephen Downes are leading a course entitled "Connectivism & Connective Knowledge." The course has an insane number of students (something like over 2,000) - probably speaking to both the interest in the topic and the reputation of the two leaders. Now sometime soon, I hope to have an interview with George Siemens about this class - details when they become available - but I did want to go ahead and point to one of the lessons from the class so far. We all talk a lo

  • CCK08 Week Three: Eight Important Questions About Learning and Connection

    Posted: September 29th, 2008, 7:44pm GMT
    Forget the other seven questions. The key question posed against Connectivism is (as it was against associationism and connectionism in earlier years) this: " If learning is, as the instructors of this course contend, nothing more or less than 'making connections' (neural, conceptual, and social), how do we learn to learn the things in the chart above and the other things we need to learn to be self-sufficient, useful members of communities -- to be who we were intended to be?" There's no shor

  • Twitter Mass Follow - Nevermind : eLearning Technology

    Posted: September 29th, 2008, 4:51pm GMT
    I saw that Tony Hirst has posted a pipe that aggregates the twitter posts (tweets) from the learning professionals that Jane identified. I had said that I might want to subscribe to these folks. So, I looked through a small portion of the output of the pipe:GeekMommy: @themantisofdoom - wild, isn't it? I've been in "online" communities since BBSing days in the early 80's. Higher % of good people here.GeekMommy: @Merlene - I saw that you were jumping back in the deep end! Happy to be swimming a

  • Decka’s Decks: An Innovative Teaching Space in SecondLife

    Posted: September 29th, 2008, 1:15pm GMT
    Trekkie’s forgive me if I butcher this analogy, but it’s relevant here: In one of the original Star Trek movies - I think Star Trek III - there is a scene in which the Enterprise is chasing down a stolen ship, carrying the Genesis Device.  The stolen ship, captained by Khan, heads into a nebula to try escape.  Moments pass where neither ship knows where the other is, and they’re effectively flying blind.  Then suddenly Spock makes an observation to the effect of “Khan is not used to space. 

  • CCK08: Chaos is good!

    Posted: September 27th, 2008, 6:59pm GMT
    We have an advert for a hardware store in New Zealand headed up by Levi Vaoga, who has won a number of strong man competitions. His catch phrase is "big is good!". And I've been thinking that the catch phrase for connectivism could be "chaos is good!".Element of connectivismChaos appears to be inevitable in courses where a connectivist approach is taken to learning. You only have to look at the 'Connectivism and Connective Knowledge' online course that is currently running, and to a lessor degre

  • CCK08 Week Three: Eight Important Questions About Learning and Connection

    Posted: September 27th, 2008, 7:13am GMT
    Week 3 of the CCK08 Connectivism MOOC is principally about network theory. I've written a bit about this, notably about network analysis (Rob Cross) and network mapping (Valdis Krebs, who was this week's 'virtual guest lecturer'). All week I've been reminded of how, especially once we reach age 50, we tend to rely more and more on our networks -- both human networks (communities) and knowledge networks (the places we store what we've learned). This is partly due to the fact that we have ever m

  • Under the Influence: Networked Persuasion

    Posted: September 26th, 2008, 10:11pm GMT
    We, my networked friends and I, often comment on “the power of the network.”  The CCK08 course has us all questioning knowledge, networks and networked knowledge.  We’ve worked together and supported each other through institutional change and shifts in organizational culture.  We talk about coming together to influence local and global leaders.  However, I rarely hear anyone discussing how their network has influenced them personally, as individuals. When I reflect on my last 18 months of par

  • CCK Weekly Chat #3

    Posted: September 26th, 2008, 5:54pm GMT
    Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Online Course Week#3 Discussion September 26, 2008   Chat Log Below   read more

  • C-Map after weeks 1 and 2

    Posted: September 26th, 2008, 5:25pm GMT
    Yes, I realize this is near the end of week 3 of the connectivism course, but I’ve fallen a little behind. Still, I want to make an effort to keep up with the course and its assignments and activities, so here is what my concept map looks like after completing the readings for weeks one and two. I’m trying to map out my experience with the course and my understanding of connectivism on the same concept map. I expect both to change and grow as I progress through the course. To keep a record of

  • CCK08: Not a theory girl

    Posted: September 26th, 2008, 12:39pm GMT
    I admit that I am not a great one for theory. I can discuss the ins and outs of how to birth a breech (bottom first) baby and the evidence for and against vaginal breech birth until the cows come home. But if you start talking to me about Foucault and postmodernism, I'll just turn up my toes and rapidly decline into a semi-coma. So to say that I am struggling to get my head around connectivism is a huge understatement. The only reassuring thing is that I am not the only one by far.What is connec

  • CCK08: Asking for help on network analysis of a blogroom

    Posted: September 25th, 2008, 9:27am GMT
    Oh, I enjoyed Valdis Kreb`s presentation Emerging networks (there are .pdf slides) very much. Pretty new stuff for me. I would like very much to try this kind of analysis in my blogrooms. Let’s make an example to look for useful hints. With blogroom I mean the subset of the blogosphere constituted by the blog of my students. The students have the option to use a blog or to follow the course in a conventional way. If they choose the blog they can use it exactly as one uses a new exercise book: w

  • Connectivism, Relationships and Balance

    Posted: September 25th, 2008, 9:01am GMT
    Connectivism, Relationships and Balance View SlideShare presentation. (tags: cck08 connectivism) I created this for an assignment in the connectivism course, CCK08. It is not what the assignment really asked for, but when you are doing a not-for-credit course, I imagine that you can make the assignments fit your own personal needs. The reality is that Figure 6 hits too close to home right now and although I will follow along with this very interesting topic, I won’t technically be taking the

  • William Farish - the joys of the grade scale

    Posted: September 24th, 2008, 3:42pm GMT
    Ever wonder how we ended up with a grade system in schools and universities? This topic came up in a recent CCK08 thread. We only need to look back a few hundred years to discover William Farish. Apparently, Farish is to receive the credit for initiating grade structures as a sharp departure from how learners were previously evaluated: "When a student graduated, the most impressive thing she or he could share with a prospective employer was not a Grade Point Average (GPA) or even the name of th

  • Seesmic discussion about SL and education

    Posted: September 23rd, 2008, 8:41pm GMT
    (update: adding a link at the end about the wider discussion on the Hastac Scholars Forum) Ana Boa-Ventura, a doctoral candidate at UT Austin, starts the discussion, listing the advantages and the problems of Second Life for education. She is an early adopter of Second Life but as yet does not use Second Life in the classroom. Metaverses & Scholarly CollaborationHastac forum Howard Rheingold answering and focusing on the steep learning curve but also talking about the opportunities of a 3

  • CCK08: We are not at school

    Posted: September 23rd, 2008, 4:22pm GMT
    If we stay in this course as we stayed at school  we will probably find ourselves out of the course. The same word course should be forgotten. Assignments The course has assignments but this does not means that all the assignments have to be done. One should write when feeling to have something useful to offer or something to ask for help, not just to have an assignment done. We have not to write for the teacher (or against the teacher …) but to give something  to others and, eventually, to rece

  • WebTools For Teachers 09/23/2008

    Posted: September 23rd, 2008, 12:30pm GMT
    Ignatia Webs: CCK08 Free and reliable open source software for YOU and all of us Free open software, mostly for Windows. via Ignatia Webs tags: freeware, opensource

  • It Can Be Done!

    Posted: September 22nd, 2008, 5:27pm GMT
    I was interviewed a few days ago in preparation for the upcoming SCOPE conference October 1 by Jochen Robes. During the interview I talk about the Connectivism CCK08 online course. Jochen Robes and Stephen Downes, SCOPE 08, September 22, 2008 [Tags: Traditional and Online Courses, Connectivism] [Link] [Comment]

  • Thinking My Way Out of the Rut - Thinking Out Loud

    Posted: September 22nd, 2008, 5:13pm GMT
    I’ve been in a blog rut and it seems to coincide with reinstating my Twitter account.  Maybe I’m better at releasing my thoughts 140 characters at a time, and letting others finish them.  I’ve had so many things on my mind lately regarding education, technology, social media, relationships, and learning.  I’ve been talking about change the last several months, and I see many things happening that will help lead to that change, but not enough. The CCK08 course, though I’m only a peripheral obse

  • Week 2 Mind Map of Course

    Posted: September 22nd, 2008, 1:19pm GMT
    One of the things I haven't really done much of over the years is to conduct an online course. This is mostly because i believe that learning is rather more individual and fluid than the typical course structure provides. But for those of you wondering how I would construct an online course, the CCK08 course is illustrative. Here he see a diagram of the course, including the various resources, sites, conversations, etc. It does not resemble the neat organization of (say) an IMS content package

  • Connectivism and Childhood Learning

    Posted: September 22nd, 2008, 1:03pm GMT
    Very early on into the CCK08 course I made a connection between the concepts being discussed in the course and those much more specific to my own context.  I have, however, been trying to avoid discussing it - largely out of fear of being branded a radical and burnt at the stake by traditionalists.  Yet something Stephen Downes said in the CCK08 Ustream.TV recording from 19 September really struck a chord with me and I’d like to explore the idea here now. In discussing the notion of how Connec

  • EdTechWeekly#95 - Mebeaming EdTech News

    Posted: September 22nd, 2008, 2:06am GMT
    EdTechWeekly#95 - Mebeaming EdTech News Submitted by admin on Mon, 2008-09-22 02:06. EdTechWeekly Carla Arena cck08 Dave Cormier Jeff Lebow Jennifer Maddrell john schinker mebeam 48:26 minutes (22.17 MB) EdTechWeekly #95 September 21, 2008 This Week's Del.icio.us Links

  • Differentiating Context

    Posted: September 22nd, 2008, 12:23am GMT
    Sinikka over at lost in translation has written up another thought-provoking post titled “CCK08 - looking for patterns” in which she discusses the differences between educational theory and practice. In particular she reflects on the trends in education over the years from differentiated education to “constructionism, together with pedagogies and methods, such as co-operative learning, experiential learning and inquiry-based learning.” From the standpoint of someone who works in education, bu

  • Daily Bookmarks 09/21/2008

    Posted: September 21st, 2008, 10:30pm GMT
    September 21, 2008 Connectivism & Connective Knowledge » At the End of Week Two Stephen Downes summarizes week 2 of CCK08, including a description of how different the discussions in Moodle and on the blogs are. The Moodle discussion has become very angry and dominated by a handful of people, while the blogs show much more diversity in perspectives. tags: cck08, connectivism, networks, discussion, blog Posted in Bookmarks |

  • How One Begat the Other: On Theories and Networks

    Posted: September 21st, 2008, 3:49pm GMT
    September 21, 2008 educational technology, learning | Tags: CCK08, theory, Twitter |   photo credit: brendio I was following a Twitter conversation recently between @tomwhyte1 and @injenuity about learning theory construction. I expect it had been spawned from CCK08. Tom asked the question “If the basic core of a learning theory requires other learning theories to have happened or exist, is it an actual learning theory or tool?” I was about to enter the conversation when I realized I coul

  • CCK08 - Week 2 - Schools and rizhomes

    Posted: September 21st, 2008, 3:27pm GMT
    Reading the Cormier’s article I was struck by the vision of rhizomatic model of education as a sort of chaotic, completely guideless learning (Cormier says “curriculum is not driven by predefined inputs from experts”, ) that seems incompatible with the very notion of course and school (for example, is this course a rhizomatic experience?). And what about the experts? I still advocate the need of experts! In my previous post about “ordinary connectivism” I presented an example in which experts

  • Reflections on Knowledge

    Posted: September 21st, 2008, 3:52am GMT
    The joy of discussing knowledge is found in that it is a never ending discussion. This week in CCK08, our focus was on connective knowledge. Tom Whyte interviewed a few colleagues on their views of knowledge. I enjoyed this 7 minute video, expressing, from a nontechnical perspective, much of what many edubloggers have been talking about for years. Our ability to cope, function, and even make sense of change pressures is a function of our connectedness to others.

  • CCK08 Week Two: Expectations of a Course on Learning, and Thoughts About How We Learn

    Posted: September 20th, 2008, 4:38am GMT
    THE NEW ROLE OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT (& ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING) IMPROVING PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY •Facilitating PCM: helping people to self-find, self-filter, self-publish, self-subscribe, and self-organize ‘stuff’ •Teaching research skills: methods, not tools IMPROVING CONNECTION •Facilitating conversations: with new simple, real-time connectivity tools (IM, screen-sharing, desktop video, Open Space) •Facilitating JIT canvassing: helping people discover who knows what and conn

  • CCK08 - Suggested Reading & Collage About Education in Second Life

    Posted: September 20th, 2008, 1:54am GMT
    (This post is about the Massively Online Open Course called Connectivism and Connective Knowledge being taught by George Siemens and Stephen Downes from September to December 2008. Over 2000 participants have signed up, and I am facilitating the Second Life cohort for the course. Over the following months, I will be posting about the experience, home work assignments, and other materials related to our activities.) Suggested Reading for CCK08 & CCK08SL Not that those of us in the CCK08 co

  • Homeschooling, Connectivism and Rhizomatic Knowlege

    Posted: September 19th, 2008, 11:50pm GMT
    There have been a number of references to the context in which Rhizomatic Knowledge and Connectivism are relevant and appropriate, and when they’re not.  I myself have flagged this question here recently in fact. In considering this concept further the thought occurred to me that there are in fact areas that could be researched that could provide some unique insight into the realities of this in practice.  The homeschooling community is one such area. By nature the emphasis in homeschooling c

  • CCK08 Weekly Chat #2

    Posted: September 19th, 2008, 10:52pm GMT
    CCK08 Weekly Chat #2 Submitted by admin on Fri, 2008-09-19 22:52. Other Shows cck08 connectivism rhizomatics 56:53 minutes (26.04 MB)Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Online Course Week#2 Discussion September 19, 2008

  • Of Canons and Rhizomatic Knowledge

    Posted: September 19th, 2008, 1:16am GMT
    This post began as a short comment to Lisa Lane’s post “A World Run by Buffs” by quickly grew into something much larger than that.  I’ve been a lurker on her blog for some time now and have found her commentary to be very valuable - especially the critical analysis of the topics being discussed in the course. Just for context, my background is in educational technology.  I’m now trying to expand my understanding of learning theories and their practical application, so when educators approach

  • What is your Web 2.0 Quotient?

    Posted: September 18th, 2008, 9:14pm GMT
    While Kevin Kelly talks about Internet of things as he predicts the next 5000 days, the question is are we even ready for the present? We are still struggling with Web 2.0 and Learning 2.0, trying to bridge the gap between digital natives and digital immigrants. So are we really ready for the future? How well do you use the web in the present? Are you familiar with the Web 2.0 mumbo-jumbo? Do you utilize the web to connect, learn and grow? What is your Web 2.0 Quotient? Here’s a simple form I cr

  • Warhol, Marilyn Monroe and Connectivism

    Posted: September 18th, 2008, 8:52pm GMT
    Sinikka has posted a very thought-provoking piece (”CCK08 - random connections of today“) in which, using the analogy of Andy Warhol’s painting of Marilyn Monroe, she grapples with the “significance of nodes”, knowledge and context, and what appears to be randomness of connections, saying: “…the Andy Warhol method of multiplying the same image over and over again with varying colours to create a piece of pop art made me think of all the blogs of this course. I have seen many summaries, mind ma

  • A Sleight of Hand

    Posted: September 18th, 2008, 10:06am GMT
    Wow, this was interesting, I didn't figure it out right away. I was wondering when the FIC would appear in Connectivism (the Feted Inner Core, the cool kids, the teachers' pets, the devs' favourite coders, etc.). That was easy -- it was whoever got put in the Daily Downes, as I call it, the daily new bulletin from Stephen Downes, one of the two professors teaching the course. Well, that was almost too easy. I got in it on day one not by virtue of being FIC, but more as anti-FIC I suppose. Afte

  • CCK08: Follow the Yellow Brick Road

    Posted: September 17th, 2008, 11:33pm GMT
    Boltzmann, Witchenstien, Polanyi... Oh My! During my noon hour today, I had the opportunity to join 40 CCK08 participants in what turned out to be an audio tutorial on "Rethinking epistemology: Connective knowledge". Although complex language was used to explain competing views , I found a path to follow - call it a yellow brick road of sorts. While what is 'true' continues to move around in my mind, one pathway is being reinforced: the idea that learning has to be connected to an individual'

  • Connectivism 9-17

    Posted: September 17th, 2008, 8:46pm GMT
    I thought empirical, rational, and connective were three different ways to describe knowledge, not three different kinds of knowledge.Stephen says in his paper that there are three types of knowledge. “Connectivism is a theory that described this third type of knowledge. It is a theory that tells us what this third type of knowledge is, where it is, what produces it, how we learn it, and how it can be used. “ (Downes, 2008) He goes on to say that there are two kinds of connective knowledge, a kn

  • CCK08 - Disconnected

    Posted: September 17th, 2008, 2:03pm GMT
    (This post is about the Massively Online Open Course called Connectivism and Connective Knowledge being taught by George Siemens and Stephen Downes from September to December 2008. Over 1900 participants have signed up, and I am facilitating the Second Life cohort for the course. Over the following months, I will be posting about the experience, home work assignments, and other materials related to our activities.) Storm damage in Cincinnati, photo by elycefeliz used under CC licensing. On

  • Stephen Downes as homework

    Posted: September 17th, 2008, 5:14am GMT
    Stephen Downes as homework September 16th, 2008 — general I just finished reading Stephen Downes’ Learning Networks and Connective Knowledge; it’s part of the home work for this week’s episode of the twelve-week online course on Connectivism and Connective Knowledge I’m participating in (along with 1,900 others). (Join the party!) Stephen’s paper covers a lot of ground. Too much, in fact. His well-reasoned arguments would have a better chance of changing the world were they stated in five ar

  • Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-09-16

    Posted: September 17th, 2008, 3:59am GMT
    Just got to the post office. 8 people ahead of me with only one teller. Efficient employee, but very inefficient management. # The irony is the post office does not have to be efficient. What other options are there? # There is a discussion in the #cck08 class about Virtual Ethnography. Anybody here ever use this methodology? # Powered by Twitter Tools.

  • CCK08 - what is knowledge, where is the ethics and can it keep humanity together?

    Posted: September 16th, 2008, 9:28pm GMT
    This week is the second week of the massive online course CCK08. This week is focusing on ‘What is knowledge’. I must say that the articles I absorbed today really intrigued me and gave me a better understanding (or at least the thought of better understanding). I will copy parts of both articles, just to enable you to follow my own thoughts a bit if you have not read the articles (yet). Another reason is that if in the future the links to the articles get severed, I will still be able to recons

  • Virtual Worlds London and the Future of Media and Communication

    Posted: September 16th, 2008, 8:00pm GMT
    I am preparing for a busy European conference season, and one of the main events will be the Virtual Worlds London conference (October 20-21). Virtual Worlds London is owned and operated by Virtual Worlds Management, they also own Virtual Worlds News. MixedRealities will be a blog media partner for this event. The theme “Media and Communication” does interest me a lot, obviously, and the conference runs two tracks: Consumer Worlds and Enterprise Solutions. Even though I think kids and teens wo

  • Communicating with anyone vs. someone

    Posted: September 16th, 2008, 2:21pm GMT
    Chris Collins (a/k/a Fleep) sends a mobile post to her blog because she has no power and no Internet connection. She’s letting her ~2,000 online course mates (in the CCK08 course) know that she won’t be in attendance today. No biggee right? It’s no different than a voice mail sent to a group. Or is it? I  think it’s significant. She’s communicating with anyone. I’m not sure I could be as creative if I found myself without power or a connection. Perhaps that’s because Fleep seems to have severa

  • Types of Knowledge (mindmap)

    Posted: September 16th, 2008, 11:15am GMT
    In reading Stephen Downes lastest post on “Types of Knowledge and Connective Knowledge” I was inspired to try and represent the concepts visually. This is what I’ve come up with (also available here). It’s likely this will change over time - as will this post - but here’s where I’m at currently NB: Quotes in mindmap adapted from Downes’ blog entry.

  • EC&I 831 and CCK08 - Ouside Looking In

    Posted: September 16th, 2008, 4:45am GMT
    I was one of the many fortunate educators who had the privilege of observing and participating in Dr. Alec Couros‘ EC&I 831 course last spring.  With the start of CCK08, I’ve been a bit nostalgic and wanted to take time to reflect on EC&I 831 and share my hopes for CCK08.  In May, I attended the TLt Summit in Saskatoon, where I met the facilitators of both courses, as well as many of the students from EC&I 831, some of whom are also participating in CCK08.  In one of George Siemen’s

  • Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-09-15

    Posted: September 16th, 2008, 3:59am GMT
    Did all my ironing for the week. Now, to conquer email. # @RobinYap If only Twitter would take images! Strange, I have a great new digital camera, but somehow hate connecting it uploading pics. # Completely overwhelmed with #CCK08 emails. They will probably trail off, as they have with #FOC08, which are now manageable. # Did I just read that correctly that Bank of America just bought Merrill Lynch today http://tinyurl.com/5utc4h # I have been trying to access co.mments all day. Does anybody kno

  • Blog Networks

    Posted: September 15th, 2008, 10:49pm GMT
    As part of the second online course I’m currently taking this session, Facilitating Online Communities, I’m meant to be posting weekly blog reflections about designated topics. ? ?Unfortunately in the excitement of start of session at work and then Week One of CCK08,? ?my contributions have slow to a trickle,? ?and then dried up completely. ? ?So in the interests of getting back on track here are my thoughts on the topic of Blog Networks. Specifically we’re asked to discuss what characteristic

  • Daily Bookmarks 09/14/2008

    Posted: September 14th, 2008, 10:30pm GMT
    September 14, 2008 Half an Hour: Types of Knowledge and Connective Knowledge Stephen Downes on connective knowledge. This starts with qualitative and quantitative as two types of knowledge recognized historically, continuing with some history of philosophical positions on types of knowledge. Downes argues that connective knowledge is not either empirical or rationalist, but a third type of knowledge. He uses a metaphor of carbon in different forms: carbon atoms connected differently can be co

  • Rhizomatic Knowledge in Emerging Technology

    Posted: September 14th, 2008, 10:29pm GMT
    The Library Last week I did something for the first time ever in the six years I’ve worked at UNSW: borrow something from the library.  The reason I hadn’t seen a need to visit the library up until that point is not due to the depth or diversity of its collection or expertise of its staff, but rather in the currency of its catalogue relative to my field. This was driven home to me when our friendly library liaison Caroline came to visit nine months ago.  In the interests of helping provide me

  • Maybe we should think beyond virtual worlds

    Posted: September 14th, 2008, 6:07pm GMT
    Maybe we should think beyond virtual worlds Submitted by Roland Legrand on Thu, 09/11/2008 - 14:15. academics CCK08 collaboration education learning practice second life theory Virtual Worlds web2.0 I am almost through my first week of the Connectivism course. I must admit that I felt a bit lost, as most participants did, but I don't mind. I know that feeling lost can very well mean one is experiencing and learning something new. The "learning" is partly an exercise in absorbing academic t

  • The Future of Questions

    Posted: September 14th, 2008, 4:36pm GMT
    I was asked recently to fill out a survey about the situation, goals, and ideas of “future library leaders”. One of the very first questions the survey asked was a true or false type thing; there was a statement and I was asked my opinion about it. The statement said something like this: “In the future, 100% of questions will be directed first at Google.” It was worded better than that, though. I disagreed. I explained why, but now that I’ve answered this question, I want to elaborate on my an

  • CCK08 - will connectivism without guidance result in unuseful knowledge mutations?

    Posted: September 14th, 2008, 9:29am GMT
    Adsense Code] The CCK08 course is running for three days now and discussions are beginning to emerge. Some useful links: What is Connectivism a short presentation by George Siemens (made in adobe presenter, so you will need the latest flash plugin and quite a strong computer processor - might be difficult for low resource areas).very short summary of the presentation:the human mind builds on:our need to externalize to make sense;our need for frameworks/structure

  • How to visualize Connectivism - why not use 3D?

    Posted: September 14th, 2008, 8:51am GMT
    Connectivism Village in Chilbo, Second Life (picture by Fleep Tuque, Creative Commons license) My avatar Olando7 Decosta has just been visiting Chilbo’s Connectivism Village in Second Life. The Connectivism course brings together about 2,000 people worldwide studying how people learn (or should learn? or can learn?) using web2.0 tools and the technological & social possibilities of internet netwoks. As explained previously the course incites the participants to use lots of tools to meet,

  • What is 'Connectivism'?

    Posted: September 14th, 2008, 6:01am GMT
    I think I understand Connectivism as a theory – but I’m not sure I truly understand how to apply Connectivism to a range of learning situation – I’m not sure Connectivism can be considered to be a ‘separate or independent’ learning theory but more of a means by which knowledge and information can be aggregated and shared.I understand the power of the network and can think of many examples in my work place where I rely upon my networks to help me aggregate the avalanche of information we receive

  • CCK08 - week 1 - What is 'connectivism'?

    Posted: September 14th, 2008, 5:57am GMT
    Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Online Course George Siemens and Stephen Downes are facilitating this MOOC (massive open online course).The Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Online website contains all of the information and links to participate in the course.Pre-course preparation included an ‘Articulate’ presentation by George, introducing the structure of the course and some of the ‘expectations’.Week 1 – What is ‘connectivism’? Is it a learning theory? How does it differ from const

  • CCK08 - Connectivism Village in Chilbo

    Posted: September 14th, 2008, 5:28am GMT
    (This post is about the Massively Online Open Course called Connectivism and Connective Knowledge being taught by George Siemens and Stephen Downes from September to December 2008. Over 1900 participants have signed up, and I am facilitating the Second Life cohort for the course. Over the following months, I will be posting about the experience, home work assignments, and other materials related to our activities.) Cross posted from the Chilbo Community Blog: Following the end of the very suc

  • Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-09-13

    Posted: September 14th, 2008, 3:59am GMT
    Will take the rest of the weekend offline. Will blog again and participate on #foc08 and #cck08 on Monday. Email me if needed. # @shirleyearley Missed your Tweet. @BronSt and I were discussed next steps for the @cpsquare book discussion group on communities of practice # Taking today off. Watching James Bond - From Russia with Love. Never saw it. # Going to a neighbor’s for Manhattans. Weekends are wonderful. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

  • Connectivism

    Posted: September 13th, 2008, 6:59pm GMT
    I am involved in learning through the Connectivism and Constructivism course. In the first Elluminate recording Stephen Downes and George Siemens talked about the private versus public personas.It would seem the general consensus is the same as mine. I once expressed this - I am who I am. Stephen and George, of course, were much more eloquent. The connectedness of our world today and this question are related. Because we are connected to networks, there can be no separation of personas. We are

  • CCK08: Thoughts on Knowledge and Learning -- Week One

    Posted: September 13th, 2008, 7:08am GMT
    Map of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Connectivism, by Matthias Melcher. Full size map you can actually read here. I'm currently enrolled in an online course on Connectivism and Connective Knowledge (with 2000 other people) being put on by George Siemens at the University of Manitoba and co-hosted by Stephen Downes. The main course wiki, if you still want to enroll, is here. The course runs about 12 weeks and each week has selected readings, live and taped discussions, and a ton of acti

  • Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-09-12

    Posted: September 13th, 2008, 3:59am GMT
    Today is paperwork catch-up day. Few people are in the office, so few meetings. Hurray! # Running an errand during lunch. Hope the rain holds off. # Running an errand during lunch. Hope the rain holds off. # Raining outside. Glad I brought my umbrella. # Having soup while I try to clean up paperwork in the office. # @carlaarena I added you to the #cck08 wiki page, as I mentioned in my reply to your comment http://tinyurl.com/4nro9a # Powered by Twitter Tools.

  • Daily Bookmarks 09/12/2008

    Posted: September 12th, 2008, 10:30pm GMT
    September 12, 2008 CCK08: let’so go for a walk in a wood and relax … « Insegnare Apprendere Mutare A beautiful metaphor for CCK08. A massively open course like this is too complex to understand the whole thing at once the way you would know a traditional course. Instead, think of the course like a walk in the woods, where you get to know the woods at different levels and in different ways. tags: cck08, connectivism, MOOC, learning However, nobody would assume that in order to know that wood

  • Strolling in the CCK08 woods

    Posted: September 12th, 2008, 7:27pm GMT
    On The Daily, Stephen pointed us here. This post by Andreas Formiconi resonates with me. I think I am strolling though through those woods but oh the stops here and there have me thinking and exploring many side trips. I haven’t been able to complete a thing but I think that is OK for now and I am just enjoying the journey. I am working at trying to see if I can change some of the “old” thoughts of learning that I still carry around with me. Thoughts like completing all assignments, feeling t

  • Connectivism and Connective Knowledge

    Posted: September 12th, 2008, 7:07pm GMT
    A very small piece of the very large discussion.

  • Again and Again thinking about connectivism

    Posted: September 12th, 2008, 6:51pm GMT
    Again and Again thinking about connectivism Posted on September 12th, 2008 von Andreas Last week I was permanently thinking about the conectivism and after the possibility taking part at the UStream conference part of the CCK08 it didn’t stop. Got an idea which could be make this for me more understandable. To resume my points I got from the connectivism apporach: Knowledge exists. Knowledge is existing in technology. Knowledge is existing in networked form - means in forms of nodes and edges

  • CCK08 - Week 1 - A day of ordinary connectivism

    Posted: September 12th, 2008, 5:56pm GMT
    Daniele Cerra: who wanted to know how to work with her pupils on a cartoon video from YouTube. Gianna wanted to subtitle or add balloons to that video. I suppose Gianna was asking to Maria because she knows her and hoped she could help her, … Read more

  • The Secret of Connectivism...Revealed!

    Posted: September 12th, 2008, 5:43pm GMT
    Uh-oh, I think I stumbled on the truth here by accident. I know I shouldn't have, but something "made me" (a connective neuron firing or misfiring -- and who is to tell the difference!) go and click on this guy's post on the Moodle Muddle about his delicious tags. You know my feeling about delicious tags. I wondered idly, say, does he have anything in that category yet or is it all like "My New EduBlog That I Won't Keep Up for More Than 3 Days". Then some other synapse fired and I pressed

  • CCK08 Weekly Chat

    Posted: September 12th, 2008, 5:19pm GMT
    CCK08 Weekly Chat Submitted by admin on Fri, 2008-09-12 17:19. Other Shows cck08 50:07 minutes (22.94 MB) Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Online Course Week#1 Discussion September 12, 2008

  • CCK08 - Week 1 - A day of ordinary connectivism

    Posted: September 12th, 2008, 2:56pm GMT
    I have to admit: I don’t like theoretical discussions and definitions. I love stories, indeed and I think that often most concepts, even if difficult, may be better explained through storytelling. So, this is a story about connectivism: even though it’s only a small log of my starting of today’s workday, I apologize for its lenght. I reflected on that event and found that it was possible to map this activity with some properties of connectivism. Here’s the story. This morning, around 7.30,

  • Growing a Network

    Posted: September 12th, 2008, 2:46pm GMT
    Jeffrey Keefer said to me today: “You seem to have a large and wide network yourself. How do you foster that?” The short answer to this is: “I actively seek out my network contacts and go where they go” or as Robert Scoble has said before: “I go where the conversations are.” The longer explanation, as you might expect, is more involved that that. Background I’ve heard a couple of CCK08 students state that they had implemented Connectivism in practice long before they even knew what it was,

  • Connectivism: Week 1

    Posted: September 12th, 2008, 1:16pm GMT
    With little time these days, I'll be auditing the auditor's version of the 12 week Connectivism course happening now. I haven't signed up anywhere, I haven't taken part in any of the sessions, but I'm like a moth drawn to the flame: as I peer in on all the conversation beginning to happen, I can't help but join in. In my own lazy way, at the very least. Am I creating a new pattern? Am I growing new knowledge? (As opposed to building it?) See Christy Tucker's musings on this topic: Does L

  • Getting Beyond Parallel Processing

    Posted: September 12th, 2008, 12:40pm GMT
    The dinner bell rang; Everyone came; Most sat silently through the appetizer... The richness of the CCK08 course is not in the content, but in the interactions of the participants. Unfortunately, the conversation is not so likely to come to you, if you don't take the leap to attach your ideas to those of the others in the course. Instead of working in parallel with the others in this course who are processing the rich information in the presentations and links shared by Stephen and George, I

  • Connectivism Crib Sheet

    Posted: September 12th, 2008, 8:36am GMT
    The Connectivism "course" layout is one of the most annoying pieces of crap I've encountered in a long time. It is deliberately deconstructed and distended and obfuscated and confused across a cacophony of subjectivities and social media toys to stretch all the students out on the rack of the theory so they really feel it in their irritable nerve endings. They deliberately don't even make a "center" when they make a center, and you can't find the most obvious stuff, like "where is the reading

  • Visualizing CCK08

    Posted: September 12th, 2008, 6:13am GMT
    I couldn’t resist it! (via Rosalyn Pursey http://twitter.com/rozp)

  • Disconnected, Connecting, Connected

    Posted: September 12th, 2008, 4:31am GMT
    Time, overwhelmed, overloaded, chaotic are some of the frequently used words in the Connectivism online session that has just started with Stephen Downes and George Siemens. Due to hurricane Ike and the need to evacuate from Key West, I was disconnected at first and enjoyed some quality time with my family. Then, I started connecting, reading things here and there. Now, I’m in full swing, interacting with some in the MOODLE forums, Facebook group and reading some interesting blog posts. Still

  • Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-09-11

    Posted: September 12th, 2008, 3:59am GMT
    @abalone I just subscribed to everybody in #CCK08 who listed themselves as having Twitter accounts http://tinyurl.com/ystn7j # @pinoyboy That beats smelling of skanky bleach and roach spray. # Wow, almost 1:00 already. The day is flying!!! # Finished final meeting of the day. Now I can at last get some work done. # Listened to the Connectivism #cck08 call from yesterday that I missed http://tinyurl.com/53qjtf # Have a #CP2 book discussion planning meeting this evening. # Powered by Twitter To

  • Catch up strategies in online courses

    Posted: September 12th, 2008, 2:42am GMT
    My friend Bronwyn Stuckey wrote a blog post this week that rang bells for me. She was essentially asking, how do we catch up when we are lost or left behind in an online learning course/class/workshop? This hit home because right now I’m facilitating a workshop and have totally fallen behind in two online courses I’m ostensibly “taking!” Ha! Here is a snippet to get us started. Lost or left behind in online learning? « Bron’s Spot Last week I was facing what many of our online learners must f

  • Networked Individualism and the Implications for Organisations

    Posted: September 12th, 2008, 1:19am GMT
    An interesting thought occurred to me while reading Jeffrey Keefer’s latest post at Silence and Voice (”The AIM of Social Media & Web 2.0“) that I’d like to explore here. According to Barry Wellman’s “Little Boxes, Glocalization, and Networked Individualism” the whole notion of interrelationships, networks, and the role and place of the individual has been steadily morphing from the traditional neighborhood-based networks to one of “networked individualism.” Wellman argues that “…communi

  • Metaphors and Language of Learning

    Posted: September 12th, 2008, 12:47am GMT
    September 11, 2008 Oak Tree Seedling The discussion around whether learning grows or is built has been terrific. I can definitely sympathize with Sarah Stewart’s comment about enjoying the conversation even if I’m not sure I understand it all. I’ve got a nice collection of metaphors for learning now: Building: This is the classic constructivist language, constructing and building your own learning. Growing: From Stephen Downes’ What Connectivism Is “Learning As Advancement Of Ideas”: George

  • Daily Bookmarks 09/11/2008

    Posted: September 11th, 2008, 10:30pm GMT
    September 11, 2008 Learning Visions: Instructional Designers with ID Degrees? Survey Results… Cammy Bean has updated her ID degrees survey results. It’s up to 34% of IDs having an advanced degree in instructional design–higher than it was the last time she reported, but still clearly a minority. tags: instructionaldesign, career, credentials eduweb: research Research on educational games from Eduweb tags: games, simulations, research, learning, education, interactivity Half an Hour: Respo

  • Maybe we should think beyond virtual worlds

    Posted: September 11th, 2008, 9:54pm GMT
    I am almost through my first week of the Connectivism course. I must admit that I felt a bit lost, as most participants did, but I don’t mind. I know that feeling lost can very well mean one is experiencing and learning something new. The “learning” is partly an exercise in absorbing academic theories, but also a practice, and experiencing developments we were already aware of, but experiencing them in a more intense way. Thinking all this over, I have a suggestion for my favorite group in Se

  • Maybe we should think beyond virtual worlds

    Posted: September 11th, 2008, 9:15pm GMT
    I am almost through my first week of the Connectivism course. I must admit that I felt a bit lost, as most participants did, but I don't mind. I know that feeling lost can very well mean one is experiencing and learning something new. The "learning" is partly an exercise in absorbing academic theories, but also a practice, and experiencing developments we were already aware of, but experiencing them in a more intense way. Thinking all this over, I have a suggestion for my favorite group in Se

  • Survival Strategies

    Posted: September 11th, 2008, 8:51pm GMT
    Image via CrunchBase, source unknown Taking a course on New Media, Social Media, and Learning means sifting through a lot of information. Simultaneously participating in a distance education course with nearly 2,000 participants means sifting through a lot more information. To cope with the flow of information, I’ve subscribed to the RSS feeds of the blogs of all of my New Media classmates.  I’ve been checking these feeds almost daily and commenting frequently (Since I’m the only course member

  • What is connectivism?

    Posted: September 11th, 2008, 8:08pm GMT
    Image via Wikipedia The first week’s topic in the Connectivism course was “What is connectivism?”.  To help us answer this question, George Siemens and Stephen Downes provided us with some readings and asked us to record our reflections on our blog.  If you are curious, these were the readings: Little Boxes, Glocalization and Networked Individualism (.pdf) What is the Unique Idea inConnectivism Learning Theory or Pastime of the Self-Amused? (.doc) What is Connectivism? Critique of connectivism

  • Connectivism and Connected Knowledge - The Role Playing Game

    Posted: September 11th, 2008, 7:35pm GMT
    I’ve been following the 2008 Connectivism and Connected Knowledge course (see course blog, daily newsletter, wiki, aggregation page, and Moodle course page with forum) from an intellectual distance enforced by having too many other things going on at the start of a very busy local semester. As with other ventures along these lines (though none that I’ve seen have operated at this scale and, so far, this intensely) the flood of discussion and resources was immediately overwhelming… but the discu

  • CCK08

    Posted: September 11th, 2008, 6:30pm GMT
    It's been a busy week in our Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Course. I'll reference course developments once a week here, so readers that are not interested don't end up being overwhelmed. I've posted a short summary on my reactions to week one.

  • CCK08 Concept Map Version 0.1

    Posted: September 11th, 2008, 2:10pm GMT
    As part of the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge course, each student is asked to maintain and update a concept map depicting key thoughts or emerging ideas in visual form. I’m still trying to get my head around the whole concept, so I suspect a bit of a learning curve lay ahead in the best way to approach them. Almost certainly changes and corrections are required and many more iterations lay ahead, but I’d like to throw this out for suggestions and comments. For a large view of the map p

  • Spare me the tirades, I’m here to learn

    Posted: September 11th, 2008, 1:06pm GMT
    Perusing some of the discussion threads and blog posts on the CCK08 course I’m taking tonight I was met with a stark realisation that I’ve left a crucial element out of the description of my criteria for a personal learning network as well as the people in it:  respect for others. I made an attempt to look at some of the criticisms being leveled against the suggestion that Connectivism is a Learning Theory - and indeed the whole notion of Connectivism itself - and I am appalled by some of the

  • The meteoric rise of social media

    Posted: September 11th, 2008, 6:53am GMT
    Social media: terrible name for “let’s get together.” Yes, folks, this is important. Social media — Facebook, Twitter, and other things you thought were for kids — are the way to stay connected and keep up with the world. They create “ambient awareness,” the feeling that you’re close to someone even when you are not. Required reading [...]

  • Visualizing My Connectivism Learning So Far

    Posted: September 11th, 2008, 4:39am GMT
    September 10, 2008 Prompted my Michele Martin’s Web 2.0 Wednesday task for this week, I decided to do a Wordle tag cloud of my blog. Learning is the top word in my cloud, followed by connectivism. Think, information, and networks are all prominent. Growing and grow are both more prominent than build–an interesting observation after my post about whether learning grows or is built. Although Michele’s task was originally about personal branding, I was hoping to get a better grasp of the discuss

  • CCK08- I Swear! A Behaviorist Dog Ate My Homework!

    Posted: September 11th, 2008, 12:08am GMT
    Doh! I wrote this two days ago and forgot to click publish! n00b! It’s the first week of classes for the Connectivism and Connected Knowledge course and I am already lapsing behind. As a Massively Open Online Course, maybe I cna get lost in the crowd of 2000 gazillion students. Would you believe a dog ate my homework? Despite my success at gaming the school system on high school and college (meant- learning how to take standardized tests well), I’ve become a sloppy lazy learner in my adu

  • Networks Inside and Out

    Posted: September 10th, 2008, 11:40pm GMT
    In our introduction to Connectivism, I smiled at finding direct parallels between the way information percolates through a human network; and the way it is thought to leap microscopic chasms in the human brain. Networks on the Inside I love John Medina's descriptive metaphor for physical learning in the brain: Beginning with the realization that most cells look like fried eggs, Medina suggests how to turn it into a nerve cell, consisting of the cell body and dendrites: "Take that fried egg a

  • CCK08/CCK08SL - Pre-Week 1

    Posted: September 10th, 2008, 3:50pm GMT
    (This post is about the Massively Multiuser Online Course called Connectivism and Connective Knowledge being taught by George Siemens and Stephen Downes from September to December 2008. Over 1900 participants have signed up, and I am facilitating the Second Life cohort for the course. Over the following months, I will be posting about the experience, home work assignments, and other materials related to our activities.) Catching Up! Because I was so busy with SLEDcc 2008 and SLCC 2008, I have

  • CCK08: Does Learning Grow or Is it Built?

    Posted: September 10th, 2008, 12:51pm GMT
    The vision proposed by Stephen Downes … Hence, in connectivism, there is no real concept of transferring knowledge, making knowledge, or building knowledge. Rather, the activities we undertake when we conduct practices in order to learn are more like growing or developing ourselves and our society in certain (connected) ways. In What Connectivism Is and by George Siemens Connections create meaning in What is connectivism explain all my learning experience. Just an example. As a students in Physi

  • Knowledge + zest for life

    Posted: September 10th, 2008, 5:49am GMT
    Richard Ogle, author of the wonderful book Smart World, offers this marvellous 1927 quote from Alfred North Whitehead’s Universities and their Function. I found it apt since I am enrolled in a unversity course for the first time in a decade. “The justification for a university is that it preserves the connexion between knowledge and the zest for life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning. The university imparts information, but it imparts it imaginati

  • Continuing Education + About.com (& CCK08) = Reflective Practice

    Posted: September 9th, 2008, 8:47pm GMT
    I often blog about adult and continuing education. Makes sense–I am a senior instructional designer, adjunct instructor at New York University, and organizational learning and communication consultant. I live and breathe teaching and learning, and with many of my influences (Lyotard, Mezirow, Brookfield, and Denzin, among others) encouraging (critical) reflective practice, I tend to regularly toss ideas and experiences around in my mind for extended periods of time. This is after all the purpo

  • How to filter your CCK08 email (in Gmail)

    Posted: September 9th, 2008, 6:10pm GMT
    How to filter your CCK08 email (in Gmail) September 9th, 2008 — general How to create a filter for your CCK08 email.

  • Bill Kerr’s Challenge to Connectivism

    Posted: September 9th, 2008, 5:39pm GMT
    Bill Kerr’s Challenge to Connectivism September 9th, 2008 — general I’m struggling to complete my reading assignments for George and Stephen’s online course on Connectivism and Connected Knowledge. I can’t let go of a great opportunity to learn but I sense I’m not going to be getting enough sleep over the coming twelve weeks. The final reading for the first week, Bill Kerr’s challenge to connectivism, got me engaged, and that’s the seat of learning, so I thank him in spite of the fact that

  • CCK08 - Week 1 - Too much connected?

    Posted: September 9th, 2008, 4:12pm GMT
    My very first impressions from the course: I feel a little uncomfortable with the variety of connection places that, in theory, we should manage. This is causing me some anxiety: is it preferable to post here, in my blog, or is it better to discuss in the Moodle forum? Or should I post here and then put a link to the post in the forum, or in the Facebook group? And how will we struggle with the overwhelming quantity of information that will be arriving from our mates? I started to read the p

  • Connectivism & Connective Knowledge Course

    Posted: September 9th, 2008, 3:20pm GMT
    This is BIG. Nearly 2,000 people have signed up for George Siemens’ and Stephen Downes’ free online course, me included. Here’s a great map of the course learnscape. Keep up to speed with the course Pageflakes aggregator. And here’s an outline. What’s connectivism? George explains what’s new here: Property Behaviourism Cognitivism Constructivism Connectivism How learning occurs Black box—observable behaviour main focus Structured, computational Social, meaning created by each learner [...]

  • Connectivism: Theory and Application

    Posted: September 8th, 2008, 10:44pm GMT
    A thought occurred to me on the way to the train station this morning that I’d like to explore; and that is, that one way to better understand Connectivism is to place it within its own context. Specifically, I don’t know much about the subject but would like to learn.  So what processes then, according to Connectivism, would I need to undertake (or would occur) in order to learn more about the subject? Five Common Principles of Learning Theories According to Siemens’ presentation this week,

  • Connectivism course: nifty (and a little scary) design

    Posted: September 8th, 2008, 9:23pm GMT
    I just sat in on the introductory material for the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge course (CCK08) being offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes. I’m really impressed with how they have made an amorphous design make sense for users. There are many ways to connect with the course, to experience the ideas and conversations with others, and to explore the evolving nature of online learning in a unique context. I must say that it takes a lot of courage to do what George and Stephen are at

  • [CCK08] First Impressions

    Posted: September 8th, 2008, 8:02pm GMT
    Even if you're not registered in our giant Connectivism course (and most OLDaily readers are not registered!) you will want to see this diagram of the course - this is a classic depiction of a connectivist course model. Matthias Melcher, x28's new Blog, September 8, 2008 [Tags: Traditional and Online Courses, Connectivism] [Link] [Comment]

  • Dissecting Connectivism

    Posted: September 8th, 2008, 2:15pm GMT
    Day one of CCK08 begins today and we’ve been provided with a hefty reading list to get our heads around and start to ponder and discuss.  In addition to this, George Siemens has put together a presentation - “What is connectivism” (audio only version) - to help introduce the topic, as well as place it in the context of several other learning theories such as Behaviorism, Cognitivism, and Constructivism. Following on this he’s asked us to consider “Do you agree? Does connectivism add something

  • EdTechWeekly #93

    Posted: September 8th, 2008, 2:43am GMT
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  • Kunstler on (Virtual) Reality

    Posted: September 8th, 2008, 2:40am GMT
    James Howard Kunstler, social critic and author of The Long Emergency, has got me thinking. Here are a few passages from Kunstler’s essay, Virtual is No Refuge for the Real. One of the extremely painful lessons of our time, I’m convinced, will be that the virtual is not an adequate substitute for the real. It will be painful because the notion of virtuality has become a psychological crutch for a culture that is recklessly destructive of real places, real experiences, real relationships with

  • Will Lurkers share their Cognitive Surplus?

    Posted: September 7th, 2008, 11:21pm GMT
    With the impending launch of CCK08, I've been thinking about the 'real' participants in this massive open online course. The number of folks who have are receiving the introductory 'Daily' from Stephen Downes and George Siemens is now touted at 'just under 1900', but how many will actually participate? In Stephen's introductory email, it is clear, that the facilitators hope to provide differentiated learning experiences: "We expect, and want, each student to have a different perspective, to ha

  • “The development of the metaverse moves as slow as molasses”

    Posted: September 7th, 2008, 10:19pm GMT
    So I did not make it to the big virtual worlds events of these last days: the Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo in Los Angeles and the Second Life Community Convention (SLCC) in Tampa (Florida). Did I miss much? Of course I did. Both gatherings facilitate inspiring contacts and discussions. But just looking at the headlines, there was no major breaking news this week - at least not in the sense of “breaking news” which would also be picked up massively by non-specialized media. The Second Lif

  • Does Learning Grow or Is it Built?

    Posted: September 7th, 2008, 3:01pm GMT
    September 7, 2008 It’s Week 1 of the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge course. This is a massively open online course led by Stephen Downes and George Siemens. I believe 1900 people have signed up for the course, so it really is huge. With something this big, no single person can follow all the conversations or absorb all the information. It’s simply not possible. I’m planning to try to delve more deeply into a few conversations, rather than skimming lightly on the surface of many. This we

  • Connectivism and Connective Knowledge (CCK08) Online Course Preparation

    Posted: September 7th, 2008, 2:06pm GMT
    Are you one of the 1800+ people who will be participating with the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge (CCK08) online course that George Siemens and Stephen Downes are facilitating and formally begins tomorrow? Want to watch a short online introduction to the course? Click the image to see it: Technorati Tags: cck08,connectivism,online course

  • NY Times: Ambient Awareness, Digital Intimacy

    Posted: September 7th, 2008, 5:22am GMT
    Xeni Jardin at Boing Boing pointed me to this NY Times article Ambient Awareness, the effects of the Facebook and Twitter on culture and psychology. A great read. Combined with my reading for cck08, more than 200 pages, I’m glad today is Sunday.

  • cck08 about to start

    Posted: September 7th, 2008, 5:17am GMT
    One of the blogs I read (I think it was Robin Good’s) sent me to cck08, an open online class in Connectivism. I’ve been curious about this concept of distributed knowledge and its use in learning and education. It is coming at just the right time. George Siemens posts in blogs I read regularly, and I am looking forward to interacting with what look to be a huge group (200 have sent in self- introductions, 2,000 have expressed an interest). Can’t wait. Look for my reactions here and in their cla

  • CCK08: Learn Connectivism by Connecting Online

    Posted: September 6th, 2008, 12:18am GMT
    Click To Play Rodd and Todd Lucier chat about CCK08 What is Connectivism? A theory of networking and learning where self-organizing groups learn and teach one another with appropriate technologies. The online course presented by University of Manitoba is open to anyone interested in how technology helps people connect online. The brothers discuss how course participants are creating communities of learning using a variety of Web 2.0 tools including blogs, google maps, facebook group and t

  • Initial Thoughts on Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Course

    Posted: September 5th, 2008, 8:35pm GMT
    George Siemens and Stephen Downes have created a massive online course, Connectivism and Connective Knowledge, that now has 1700 participants! I can’t wait to see how this unfolds. George had a great introductory video to help us get started. He suggested that we accept a degree of unsettledness as we move through this course and he talked about how we simply can’t stay on top of all the information available to us. Unsettledness I can handle. I think I’ve been living with unsettledness for awh

  • Developing Learning Networks - Significance and Practice

    Posted: September 5th, 2008, 4:10am GMT
    Consider this a mental brain dump. I want to come back to this and compose a more coherent blog post when time permits, but in lieu of this I’d like to present the following thoughts for discussion. Developing Learning Networks - Significance and PracticeConsider this a mental braindump that I hope to translate into a proper blog post later. I’m very interested in hearing the thoughts of others on this - so please let me know what you think. In the wake of my preliminary thoughts as expressed

  • CCK08 Introduction Time

    Posted: September 5th, 2008, 3:55am GMT
    As part of the preparations for the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge course I’m taking this session, students are asked to post their responses to four questions: Where you’re from Why you’re interested in this course What has to happen in order for you to consider this course a success Random information about yourself - your work, your experience with networked technologies, etc. I’ve responded on the Moodle Forum, but given my preference for blogging and dislike of communicating by f

  • CCK08 Students on Seesmic?

    Posted: September 4th, 2008, 10:03pm GMT
    I’m in the midst of getting my head around the 2nd online course I’m taking this session, U. Manitoba’s “Connectivism and Connective Knowledge“, and am curious to see whether any of the 1,600 other students are using Seesmic. If you are taking the course but haven’t heard of Seesmic yet, below is an example of what Seesmic is and what it does. I’ve also written up several posts about the application, which you can browse here. CCK08 Students on Seesmic?Trying to get my head around how to tack

  • What I hope to learn from CCK08

    Posted: September 4th, 2008, 1:16pm GMT
    I've signed up for George Siemens and Stephen Downes massive online open course "Connectivism and Connective Knowledge" which starts next week. I have a kind of meta-interest in it (as I suspect a lot of participants do), in that I'm not just interested in what the course is about, but also in how it works. So, as much as I am interested in the content, I'd have signed up if it was 'Shakespearean Tragedies' or 'George and Stephen play the banjo'. So here's what I hope to find out over the comin

  • Connectivism and Connective Knowledge. George Siemens & Stephen Downes

    Posted: September 4th, 2008, 8:46am GMT
    Se me había olvidado que me apunté antes del verano al curso que imparten George Siemens & Stephen Downes titulado "Connectivism and Connective Knowledge".Hoy he recibido un correito en el que nos enseñan una short introductory presentation. en articulate ...A estas alturas no creo necesario presentar a ninguno de los dos... aunque podemos resumirlo en estos detallitos :1) George Siemens: El mismo se presenta así: I'm George Siemens, Founder and President of Complexive Systems Inc.

  • CCK08: kicking off!

    Posted: September 4th, 2008, 8:19am GMT
    Just a kickoff post to start my new CCK08 blog category. It will be the main space for my reflections and (I hope) discussions about the CCK08 course topics. For now, I’m trying to orient myself in the heterogeneous environments mounted for the course and decide what to use and what to discard: for example, I don’t think I’ll be using Second Life… This is the RSS feed for these posts. Technorati tags: CCK08 Ascolta questo post

  • Education and SecondLife

    Posted: September 4th, 2008, 4:12am GMT
    I was asked by a work colleague to take the department on a tour of SecondLife at our recent staff meeting and spent a fair bit of time earlier in the week putting it together. Unfortunately it didn’t end up happening, so rather than let a perfectly good presentation go to waste I thought I’d transform it into a video that could be shared on the web. Given a number of my online colleagues, friends and other contacts have begun to discuss similar questions I would suspect - or at least hope - t

  • Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-09-03

    Posted: September 4th, 2008, 3:59am GMT
    Had my physical today; I even lost a little weight. Hurray! # @ErnieAtLYD I thought everybody in San Fran loved the GOP! # @maniactive What, are you running for VP, too? # @dmcordell That is a wonderful start. # @ChrisRicca Do I sense that you do not like the drill-more-oil-here Evangelical? # @suewolff Thank you for the links, Sue. Great blog posts I need to process and comment upon. # @bjschone Go