Having Fun with Connectivism – #CCK11

Having some fun searching through the internet I came across a page that let’s you find the shortest number of clicks from one Wikipedia article to another.  The example starts with Kevin Bacon to AI – 3 Clicks. So I tried: Kevin Bacon to Connectivism – 5 ClicksKevin BaconChristmasGerman language-ismList of belief systemsConnectivismI tried Kevin […]

Connectivism Word Cloud – #CCK11

I used Wordle and a popular tagged site for CCK11 – Welcome to Connectivism! — Connectivism I love that Knowledge, Learning & Information really stand out.

Top 10 #lrnchat Tweets from Feb 24 Late Session

I’m a little late in posting this week’s top 10, but here you go.  Once again this list is based on creativity, humour, sarcastic wit, and costume design.  #lrnchat – Fact.  Tonight’s session had 770 tweets. Q0) We begin w/ a #lrnchat welcome: What have you learned today? If nothing fabulous, what have you learned […]

Top 10 #lrnchat Tweets from Feb 24 Late Session

I’m a little late in posting this week’s top 10, but here you go.  Once again this list is based on creativity, humour, sarcastic wit, and costume design.  #lrnchat – Fact.  Tonights session had 770 tweets. Q0) We begin w/ a #lrnchat welcome: What have you learned today? If nothing fabulous, what have you learned […]

Personal Learning Environment & Networks (PLENKs) – Online Discussion (#CCK11)

Notes taken during today’s online discussion. Participants thoughts of PLEs All of my resources, tools, communities, and networks that I learn with every day. the tools, people, resources that I cultivate to create a learning ecosystem A self-created collection of resources and people Whatever in my environment supports learning what I lose when the web […]

Ad Inspired Template Design

The other day I read the latest posting on The Rapid eLearning Blog – 5 E-Learning Design Ideas I Got While Traveling.  Essentially it was about finding inspiration for templates and elements that might be used when creating elearning courses. I knew that Tom Kuhlmann has been doing this king of seek and create for […]

OER (Open Education Resources) – an overview with Cable Green (CCK11)

Guest Speaker: Cable Green – http://www.educause.edu/Community/MemDir/Profiles/CableGreen/42658Director of eLearning & Open Education Discussion of Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges http://blog.oer.sbctc.edu/ http://www.sbctc.ctc.edu/general/a_strategictechplan.aspx – Strategic Technology Plan – faculties in higher institutions will begin to share all information and those that do will survive. http://opencourselibrary.org/  or http://www.sbctc.edu/college/_e-elearningopencourselibrary.aspx Sharing and building quality, educational materials so more people can access […]

Thoughts on a group vs. a network – CCK11

Some argue they are two separate things others believe they are one and the same. For me they individual. A network (of persons) to me is a bunch of people that are connected together by one or more commonality. For example most of the people I follow on Twitter have some interest in elearning, instructive […]

Top 10 #lrnchat Tweets from Feb 17 Late Session

Well this was fun last week, so here we go again.  (Man it’s hard to pick only 10…so I snuck in 11, but I could have made it about 30…great chat) Q0) We begin w/ a #lrnchat welcome: What have you learned today? If nothing fabulous, what have you learned this week? 08:41:33 pm LandDDave: […]

Thoughts on Connectivism as a Learning Theory – CCK11

I began this course on Connectivism, Networked Learning and Connective Knowledge, well frankly because it was a course that was part of a certificate that seemed really interesting and it was starting the 2 days after I found out about it.  I had looked into it a few years ago, but didn’t have the time […]