Canadian MP Charlie Angus quits Twitter. "Last weekend, I sent my last Twitter message: "Dear Twitter - Adios. Free at last. Free at last, Great God almighty I'm free at last."

I have the feeling that despite what he says now, Charlie will be back on Twitter. Maybe using an Avatar? Hard for a Twitter addict with plenty to say on the issues of the day to go cold turkey I would think?

Steve, I liked that image of the "Curator" too for teaching. Curation is a greatly undervalued art! Thanks for sharing.

Here is an updated link on the week 9 article by Alan Levine on "Amazing Stories of Openness". It shares various videos and inspiring stories. Truly amazing stuff! "Open Education Conference Vancouver August 12, 2009 While the Open Education movement focuses on institutional issues, a large ocean exists of powerful individual accomplishments simply from tapping into content that is open for sharing and re-use."

The Long Tail or long tail refers to the statistical property that a larger share of population rests within the tail of a probability distribution than observed under a "normal" or Gaussian distribution. The term Long Tail has gained popularity in recent times as describing the retailing strategy of selling a large number of unique items with relatively small quantities sold of each - usually in addition to selling fewer popular items in large quantities

Ted-Ex introduces TED-Ed: Lessons worth sharing - mind altering education coming your way!

A thoughtful and practical resource. Thanks.

Given that our week 5 topic is "Groups, Networks and Collectives" I thought that this blog from Tamarack Institute on Community Engagement about seeking community was interesting.

As I slog through APA formatting, I found their guidance on how to source wkis very interesting: "Please note that the APA Style Guide to Electronic References warns writers that wikis (like Wikipedia, for example) are collaborative projects that cannot guarantee the verifiability or expertise of their entries." - It sounds like Purdue doesn't overly value connected knowledge!

Edupunk is an approach to teaching and learning practices that result from a do it yourself attitude and the avoidance of mainstream educational tools. and processes.

Sorry, I posted text into the URL line instead of the URL. Sorry! I've been trying to edit this or delete it for the past half hour with no success. I really HATE Diigo, it is not at all user-friendly.

Steve, that is a very interesting analysis. Especially of Twitter and tweets. Thank you.

InfEd explores informal education, lifelong learning, social pedagogy and social action

In this article, InfEd explores: What is learning? Is it a change in behaviour or understanding? Is it a process?

This is related to our week 3 reading - Hugh McKellar's interesting insights about books in his "The changing nature of knowledge" article. It is humorous 3-minute video about the changing nature of books (and unchanging human nature), and our struggles with technology.

It may seem like a cheesy website to include, but Amazon is extremely good at creating a highly effective online network. Amazon is the "World's largest bookstore" - largely because of clever use of online networks I believe.

This is a very well done diagram of social networks from the New Testament

Free Twitter 101 Tutorial - Still don't get Twitter? More and more this micro-blogging network is becoming a very useful tool for finding out what's going on with the people and things that matter to you the most. With our simple and engaging tutorial, you can learn all the various ways you can use Twitter to enhance your own life.

Ted Talks - or "Ideas worth spreading". Here you will find the best talks and performances from TED conferences, TEDx and partner events -- and the best of the web. More than 700 talks are now available, with more added each week.