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• Time Constraints and Personal Limitations

  Posted: November 18th, 2008, 10:07pm GMT

  This may be cheating slightly, but the last post was intended to make a point that I didn’t manage to get to, and that was a response to Jenny’s train of thought as expressed in “A 10 Minute Post.” In this post she discusses the following points: The issue of time constraints in connectivism and CCK08 Rapid interaction versus slow blogging, reflection and listening Their fundamental “meaning” for connectivism I’m a verbose writer. I have a great deal of trouble making a succinct point in 10

  
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• Blogging Exercise: The 10-Minute Post

  Posted: November 18th, 2008, 10:07pm GMT

  Jenny Mackness has unknowingly thrown down the gauntlet on a blogging exercise I think is very worthwhile and will be trying here into the foreseeable future. The idea is that you take 10 minutes – and 10 minutes only – and devote it to writing a post. The context of this idea is a video clip available on YouTube that was referenced in a recently The Daily, circulated by Stephen Downes. Not having the clip right in front of me, I can’t be sure of the exact “rules” (if they can so be called) –

  
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• CCK08: learning lines

  Posted: November 18th, 2008, 10:41am GMT

  (For students: Translation in Italian, please book yourself before beginning the translation) Yesterday in a classroom I was trying to explain the rationale of our courses and it happened to me to sketch some sort of learning lines. The sketches seemed to be of some use. Here you have a somewhat refined versions. In conventional classroom work, activities are time constrained. There is a tight schedule and a sort of photo finish with final ranking. Time constraining prepares the students for mo

  
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• The Future of Online Learning: Ten Years On

  Posted: November 18th, 2008, 9:04am GMT

  Stephen Downes has released a very interesting paper titled "The Future of Online Learning: Ten Years On". A must read for everyone interested in TEL. I also support Stephen's nomination for most influential blog post for 2008.

  
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