Some CCK11 Notes from Class Discussion with George Siemens
W1 – define was connectivism is. Our knowledge is connected across networks, it’s not just in our heads. We learn how to access that information using various tools and “connections”. New research and new information keeps changing the information we have. We don’t learn everything in our head. What is a learning theory? – describes […]
Thoughts on Connectivism After 5 Weeks of Participation – CCK11
Top 10 #lrnchat Tweets from Feb 10 Late Session
I’ve teamed up with Bill Cushard to bring you the Top 10 Tweets from the evening session of #lrnchat. You can find Bill’s morning Top 10 here: Luminary Learning (Feb. 10th’s)The Top 10 Tweets from the afternoon #lrnchat session on February 10. The only criteria I’m basing this on is following Bill’s method to capture […]
CCK11 – Feb. 11, 2011 Class Chat Session
Brief notes – very brief – got interupted a lot at work during this session. What makes Connectivism Unique? – http://cck11.mooc.ca/week4.htm Moderator (George Siemens): my psychology of learning perspective that leads me to connectivism: http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/Situating_Connectivism ruthdemitroff 1: The strength of the MOOC is we all approach it from different disciplines and cultures Moderator (Stephen Downes): […]
Managing and creating your own catalog of template resources
I created a screenr yesterday to share how I’ve decided to start cataloging all the elearning templates I collect. Basically I took screen shots of my templates, pasted them onto slides within powerpoint using one slide for each template. Now I have a plalce that I can quickly visually scan the ones that I have instead […]
Social Media & Education – Reasons to be Fearful by Neil Selwyn (CCK11 live chat)
Social media and technology in education is exciting to be passionate about, but we need to also be caution and critical of some of the elements that this can bring the the teaching world. Paper by NeilNeil’s publication page4 areas to be concerned about (talking points that are being considered “out there”) Jonas Backelin: Fearful […]
Proud Connections to the Blue Cloud People
“Looking at Your Connection Network with New Eyes” So last week when I saw that you make a visualized map of your connections on Linkedin I thought excellent, I want to see how mine compares to the example they show. And voila here it is. Compared with examples I was kind of embarrassed on how small mine was. […]
Thinking Inside of the Circle May Be Just What You Need
Okay, so the real saying is “Think Outside of the Box”, but two postings I saw this recently were so far out of the box for me that I started to wonder if it’s a way of thinking I can every accomplish. Maybe my thinking is outside sometimes, but the real genius is inside the circle or […]