I did 4 semesters in the school of Education, handed a project and was supervised. I can teach at K12. What I refuse to do is to sit an entrance exam and follow the four years of graduate school (two of which I have already covered and the other two I was exempted from) just to enroll for the Masters or do a PhD. This is what I call bureaucracy and refuse to comply with.
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Dekita Kitchen - Recognition of skills and experience
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Recognition of skills and experience
Posted: September 30th, 2008, 3:29pm GMT by bdieu
Dekita Kitchen - How will you engage in the course?
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How will you engage in the course?
Posted: September 30th, 2008, 3:11pm GMT by bdieu
Hi Elizabeth,
I have not opened a specific blog either - just post it to Beespace with a CCK08 tag (oops...forgot the cck08_elt so it can be harvested here in the Orchard) and following some of the discussions in the forum when I have time. I thought the kitchen could be an informal discussion place as well - but more focused on language learning, what it takes and whether all these theories apply and how.
Dekita Kitchen - Getting to know each other
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Getting to know each other
Posted: September 24th, 2008, 12:46am GMT by bdieu
Hello Natasa and welcome to our kitchen.Take a seat, a cup of coffee and tell us a little why you love Web 2.0, how it helps you and your students in the English language and what you expect and are getting from the connectivism course :-)
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Getting to know each other
Posted: September 11th, 2008, 12:36pm GMT by bdieu
Hi Vance,
Welcome and hope to read about your impressions on the Connectivism course. Time is definitely an important issue and many people gripe about it. Not surprising - "Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils" (Berlioz).
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Getting to know each other
Posted: September 8th, 2008, 4:52pm GMT by bdieu
Welcome Maryanne.
Better late than never:-) No stress. This is a place away from the "madding crowd", where we can get together and exchange ideas about what strikes us as important informally or get some help in organizing our readings and tools. It is not meant to subtitute or compete with the main course but open a parallel space to weave in situations and issues from the specific ELT and learning foreign language context.
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Getting to know each other
Posted: September 5th, 2008, 4:29pm GMT by bdieu
Hey..lovely...I had not been here for some time and it's filling up. So good to see you!
Carla, Randi, Nelba, Hala, Sasa - welcome and take a seat. Share with us how and why you envisage to follow the Connectivism course, which has brought so many people online. Although most of us know each other, when you have a little time fill in your profile for others who don't and feel free to open new topics in the discussions category for issues you would like to tackle.
I know Hala has some :-)
Dekita Kitchen - Recognition of skills and experience
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Recognition of skills and experience
Posted: September 5th, 2008, 3:48pm GMT by bdieu
How are you going about your portfolio, Vio? Have you managed to collect what you needed?
Which brings me to the question. Are any of you here collecting and archiving your artifacts in some sort of professional portfolio? What kind of social/cognitive/professional presence do you have online?
Would your institution accept an online portfolios or professional narrative or are we still in the era of the printed CV and personal reference/indication?
Dekita Kitchen - Getting to know each other
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Getting to know each other
Posted: August 31st, 2008, 11:49am GMT by bdieu
Welcome Minhaaj and make yourself at home by filling in your profile and giving us the address of your blog so we can follow your posts on the Connectivism course.
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Getting to know each other
Posted: August 8th, 2008, 1:51pm GMT by bdieu
Welcome Gutemberg and José Antonio.
I know Jose Antonio is a big fan of Connectivism and has been closely following all George Siemens' posts and articles. What about you, Gutemberg? What has made you join the Connectivism course?
I'd love to read how you will go about it and why in this thread.
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Recognition of skills and experience
Posted: July 30th, 2008, 3:18pm GMT by bdieu
This thread was started by Violeta Cautin, who mentioned GRE and her learning projects in the getting to know each other forum.
I have been thinking of doing some kind of formal course again but I would not be officially accepted at the university here in Brazil because I would need to sit the entrance exam again, which I find ridiculous. I sat it in 1970 for Social and Political Sciences (at that time my interest was Anthropology - still is) but as I did not finish the course, I am required to do it again.
Now what is paradoxical is that I was allowed to do the 2 last years of graduate studies in English Language and Literature (as I could speak/understand/write the language better than some of my professors, I was exempted of the first two years which are, in Brazil, basically learning the language). Although I graduated with honours (ten out of ten in linguistics) and I am allowed to teach at secondary school, I cannot postulate for a masters or a PhD (well, I could eventually, as a listener, but would not receive accreditation or have my papers commented). Instead of sitting some kind of GRE, I would need to sit the entrance exam and do the 4 college years, a rule I refuse to comply with - even though it has already caused me unpleasant situations.
This kind of system, the bureaucracy which blocks participation (nobody is responsible for it - nobody can do anything about it, nobody can solve this), and the multiple barriers to learning and access to knowledge are the main reasons I am observing with much interest the wave of change brought by ICTs towards openness, deobstructing the pipes and making the energy, exchanges and communication flow. The connectivism course will be an interesting experiment and experience in architectures of participation and how people organize themselves to make this happen.
Dekita Kitchen - Recognition of skills and experience
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Recognition of skills and experience
Posted: July 30th, 2008, 3:18pm GMT by bdieu
This thread was started by Violeta Cautin, who mentioned GRE and her learning projects in the getting to know each other forum.
I have been thinking of doing some kind of formal course again but I would not be officially accepted at the university here in Brazil because I would need to sit the entrance exam again, which I find ridiculous. I sat it in 1970 for Social and Political Sciences (at that time my interest was Anthropology - still is) but as I did not finish the course, I am required to do it again.
Now what is paradoxical is that I was allowed to do the 2 last years of graduate studies in English Language and Literature (as I could speak/understand/write the language better than some of my professors, I was exempted of the first two years which are, in Brazil, basically learning the language). Although I graduated with honours (ten out of ten in linguistics) and I am allowed to teach at secondary school, I cannot postulate for a masters or a PhD (well, I could eventually, as a listener, but would not receive accreditation or have my papers commented). Instead of sitting some kind of GRE, I would need to sit the entrance exam and do the 4 college years, a rule I refuse to comply with - even though it has already caused me unpleasant situations.
This kind of system, the bureaucracy which blocks participation (nobody is responsible for it - nobody can do anything about it, nobody can solve this), and the multiple barriers to learning and access to knowledge are the main reasons I am observing with much interest the wave of change brought by ICTs towards openness, deobstructing the pipes and making the energy, exchanges and communication flow. The connectivism course will be an interesting experiment and experience in architectures of participation and how people organize themselves to make this happen.
Dekita Kitchen - Getting to know each other
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Linking to specific posts
Posted: July 30th, 2008, 3:06pm GMT by bdieu
Is it possible to link to single posts or extract the feeds of single members in the forum?
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Getting to know each other
Posted: July 30th, 2008, 2:48pm GMT by bdieu
Hello Violeta,
Nice to have you here!
I have no formal course in tech or computing either and have learnt all I know today basically by surfing the web, experimenting and tinkering both on my own and with friends and tutors, to whom I am immensely grateful for their dedication, availability and most of all - patience.
I'm almost 55 - a Leo... birthday next Sunday :-) and although I have been involved in ELT for some 35 years now (I know, I do sound like a dinossaur) I had not heard of GRE, which would be an interesting solution for me - but like for you, Math would be a challenge. Recognition of prior learning and accreditation of relevant life experience and skills is a must- but should not become an industry. I am going to move this thread to a specific forum so we can continue there.
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Getting to know each other
Posted: July 28th, 2008, 6:44pm GMT by bdieu
Welcome, Doris and Janet. Interesting to learn about the projects you are into and thanks for the links. Make yourselves comfortable by exploring this environment, throwing your two cents in the other discussions or opening new ones :-)
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Finding people
Posted: July 24th, 2008, 1:49pm GMT by bdieu
How do I know who is participating in this forum? Is there a page (besides the polite conversation introductions) with a list and links to their profiles? Could we have a tab on the main page for this?
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Introducing yourself and tagging your posts
Posted: July 24th, 2008, 1:39pm GMT by bdieu
Please fill in the personal information on your account page. You may also add a photo /icon and values (urls/IDs of your blogs/messenger/twitter/flickr and other social media accounts - see example ) so that when other participants click on your profile they can also see where else they can reach you. Introductions go in the polite conversation forum and give us an idea of your teaching/learning context and interests. Forward your technical questions and suggestions to improve this forum to the service desk.
All our discussions have an atom feed so you can bookmark them in the feed reader of your choice. Our child tag for the Course will be cck08_elt, so use both CCK08 (main course) and cck08_elt (side dishes) in your blog posts, delicious, etc. The Dekita Orchard will aggregate participants' blogs and Connectivism course feeds.
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Tagging, filtering and piping
Posted: July 24th, 2008, 1:23pm GMT by bdieu
I'd like to know how to pipe out the discussion in the various sections of this forum so that a media wiki page (or other) can receive what is being said here.
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How will you engage in the course?
Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 8:19pm GMT by bdieu
More than 1000 participants have already enrolled in the Connectivism course, the aim of which is:
1. address the questions about value points in education and the role of learners and faculty in large scale open courses
2. model alternatives to existing course design and delivery models. These alternatives are defined by openness, innovation, active participation, connectedness, and learner autonomy.
3. expound connectivism as a learning theory and provide a forum for critical thought, debate, and consideration of future steps in research and implementation.Although it has not yet been officially launched, participants have already started making connections, coordinating efforts and suggesting how to foster interaction with others on ways to improve delivery. How?
- by volunteering translation services. The course site is being translated into Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese;
- by using tools to coordinate and organize local f2f meetups in other languages;
- by opening parallel google lists and interacting in communities of practice to reach their specific groups or areas of interest;
- by opening spaces (like this one) to discuss connectivism and ideas that emerge from the course from the perspective of their own field of practice, cultural and organizational contexts;
- by suggesting tags to narrow and filter the content.
What tools will you be using to organize yourself and how will they serve you? Why have you enrolled and how are you planning to go about the course? Besides the kitchen talk here, are you already participating or planning to do so in other events linked to the course (local meetups in your native language, translation, etc)?
Dekita Kitchen - How will you engage in the course?
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How will you engage in the course?
Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 8:19pm GMT by bdieu
More than 1000 participants have already enrolled in the Connectivism course, the aim of which is:
1. address the questions about value points in education and the role of learners and faculty in large scale open courses
2. model alternatives to existing course design and delivery models. These alternatives are defined by openness, innovation, active participation, connectedness, and learner autonomy.
3. expound connectivism as a learning theory and provide a forum for critical thought, debate, and consideration of future steps in research and implementation.Although it has not yet been officially launched, participants have already started making connections, coordinating efforts and suggesting how to foster interaction with others on ways to improve delivery. How?
- by volunteering translation services. The course site is being translated into Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese;
- by using tools to coordinate and organize local f2f meetups in other languages;
- by opening parallel google lists and interacting in communities of practice to reach their specific groups or areas of interest;
- by opening spaces (like this one) to discuss connectivism and ideas that emerge from the course from the perspective of their own field of practice, cultural and organizational contexts;
- by suggesting tags to narrow and filter the content.
What tools will you be using to organize yourself and how will they serve you? Why have you enrolled and how are you planning to go about the course? Besides the kitchen talk here, are you already participating or planning to do so in other events linked to the course (local meetups in your native language, translation, etc)?
Dekita Kitchen - Getting to know each other
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Getting to know each other
Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 6:09pm GMT by bdieu
I'm Barbara Dieu or Bee as people call me online. I am presently on a sabbatical from the Franco-Brazilian secondary school, where since 1983 I have been teaching English to middle/high school teens preparing for the French baccalauréat. Before that I worked at the Cultura Inglesa, a language institute in São Paulo, as an advanced level assistant coordinator, teacher and oral examiner for FCE and CPE (Cambridge Certificate and Proficiency Exams).
I have been online since 1997, involved in collaborative projects with my classes and more recently, organizing professional development workshops/courses for teachers using open and social media tools and platforms. I am a member of a number of national and international communities of practice, coordinate the EduTech SIG for BrazTesol and co-run Dekita.org, whose aim is to showcase, highlight, discuss and promote open and participatory uses of the Web in ELT.
I'd like to welcome you to one such moment in the Dekita kitchen and hope you will enjoy preparing and sharing the meal :-)
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Getting to know each other
Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 6:09pm GMT by bdieu
I'm Barbara Dieu or Bee as people call me online. I am presently on a sabbatical from the Franco-Brazilian secondary school, where since 1983 I have been teaching English to middle/high school teens preparing for the French baccalauréat. Before that I worked at the Cultura Inglesa, a language institute in São Paulo, as an advanced level assistant coordinator, teacher and oral examiner for FCE and CPE (Cambridge Certificate and Proficiency Exams).
I have been online since 1997, involved in collaborative projects with my classes and more recently, organizing professional development workshops/courses for teachers using open and social media tools and platforms. I am a member of a number of national and international communities of practice, coordinate the EduTech SIG for BrazTesol and co-run Dekita.org, whose aim is to showcase, highlight, discuss and promote open and participatory uses of the Web in ELT.
I'd like to welcome you to one such moment in the Dekita kitchen and hope you will enjoy preparing and sharing the meal :-)