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 […]
Digital Scholarship – Martin Weller (Elluminate Session – Jan 26, 2011) #CCK11
Book – The Digital Scholar Blog – The Ed Techie Blogging is: social – create networks using, reading, commenting democratic – anyone can start one posts can be long or short can be about any topic/subject filled with multi-media professional or informal (or both) anyone can read, no one can read them, 1000s can read them […]
Dynamizing my Learning Experience – #CCK11
How much do you love the word DYNAMIZE? When I saw/heard Stephen Downes use it in his talk on “Learning Networks: Theory & Practice” from 2005, he says “Dynamize…I know dynamize is not a word, but there wasn’t a good word. A networks is something that is fluid, it is something that is dynamic, it is something […]
W2: More – Network Diagram Examples (#CCK11)
When I thought of looking for a network diagram, I’m not sure why, but looking for one on how bees interact came to mind. Maybe it is because the network of communication that goes on within any particular hive has got to be astounding. So on my hunt for such a diagram, here are just […]
W2: More – Network Diagram Examples (#CCK11)
Here’s an interesting site with a Gallery of Network Images. I’m not exactly sure how the person developed them, but the are intriguing. This one is about our biological clocks and all the factors that contribute to its regulation. “Two-Way Communication Between Common Biological Pathways and Body’s Daily Clock.” (Credit: John Hogenesch, PhD, University of Pennsylvania School […]