Losing and Office Mate is Much Like Losing a Loved One

So this will start off topic to elearning, but I’ll try to bring it back to that.  I recently (yesterday) lost a very very dear colleague that I have worked with for 10 years.  Colleague is not a strong enough word.  I lost one of my best friends.  If that sounds like she passed away, […]

Complexity is much like a weather system.  There are many different “agents” involved that interact with one another and each one can effect any or all of the other agents and this can change the entire system. A complicated system is anything that is mechanical or people have created.

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 […]

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 […]

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): […]

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 […]

Participating in my first course that isn’t hosted on a platform #cck11

I looked at this course in previous years and even followed some of the discussions for a very brief time. However, now that I’m enrolled and am participating for me the timing couldn’t be better. I’m so intrigued with the whole idea of the delivery not being on anyone platform. That the concepts or topics […]