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Kevin Hodgson

Connected Courses MOOC (#ccourses) and #oclmooc: Assessing Connected Learning... - 1 views

buildingcreativebridges.wordpress.com/...ng-connected-learning-outcomes

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shared by Kevin Hodgson on 23 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • the gold standard is to ask what impact the learning eventually has not only on the learner, but on the community the learner ultimately serves. And it encourages us to take the learner’s point of view into account rather than focusing solely on the learning facilitator’s or learning organization’s vantage point.
  • Do we follow up with our learners to see “whether learning made a difference in their lives?”
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 23 Sep 14
       
      I don't think we do much follow-up of our learners, particularly at the university level. Down in the K-12 level, we have lots of data around where students have been and where they end up. So might say, too much data, but I find it handy as one tool to get a sense of areas of strengths and weaknesses. And I am curious to know how former students are faring.
  • “It’s not just what kids got out of the course…but what happens next, “Ito reiterated.
  • Kevin Hodgson on 23 Sep 14
     
    an overview by Paul
Terry Elliott

Mimi Ito - Weblog: Trust Falls and My Whys for Connected Courses - 1 views

itofisher.com/..._falls_and_my_why_for_con.html

connected courses #ccourses mimi ito trust why

shared by Terry Elliott on 08 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • o although I am one of the hosts/facilitators I am doubly a n00b in the connected courses sense - new to cMOOCs as well as new to course design. Which means I am thoroughly enjoying taking the plunge as a learner in all of this and muddling through the why of my teaching as I go.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 08 Oct 14
       
      Nice acknowledgment
  • best kind of trust fall exercise for someone who is used to pausing and polishing before sharing.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 08 Oct 14
       
      Thinking in public = trust exercise. Excellent observation.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      Lowering of boundaries is often not encouraged in traditional academic structures.  Too bad.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      And so glad you are taking the risk and jumping through the ether into you know not what.
  • encouraged me to keep thinking in public
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  • I feel very much buoyed by generous ways in which the connected courses participants have responded to the inevitable glitches in facilitating this course, and my thinking aloud in public as we go.
  • we are all bringing our heterogeneous whys to this experience.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 08 Oct 14
       
      Love: 'our heterogenous whys'.
  • he other is the connected course that I am designing together with other DML colleagues.
  • there can’t be a singular why for connected courses
  • Even with different dispositions that pull in different directions, I like that connected courses is pushing us both into productive discomfort and growth.
  • ach facilitator brought a different angle and expertise, and we wanted to honor that and give people space to stretch out and develop their own whys.
  • For the mission statement, first there is the what:
  • he why more broadly
  • ur goal is to build an inclusive and expansive network of teachers, students, and educational offerings that makes high quality, meaningful, and socially connected learning available to everyone.
  • Our goal setting out was to provide a professional development opportunity for faculty who are setting out to teach a connected course
  • the why that we may have set out with as instigators of the course is not the why that all participants bring to the course.
  • And this is a feature of a connectivist experience that should be embraced.
  • every co-learner is facilitating by participating.
  • So if I take off the organizer hat, as a co-learner my personal why is that I want to experience and learn more about the cMOOC approach
  • Connected courses is my first time living through this kind of learning with my own professional community.
  • So as a learner, I guess at least some of my why tracks to the explicit learning goal that we set up as organizers when we started out.
  • newly emergent whys
  • building more ties between educational practice and research
  • I’m starting to geek out on engagement metrics for the course, and thinking through how we can track the cascading effects of an experience like connected courses as it influences educator practice and in turn shapes student experiences.
  • How can we better tell a story through research and evidence about why these kinds of connected learning experiences are important?
  • And can we mobilize our networks to tell this story in a way that supports the diverse collectives that are intersecting here?
  • issues that @mdvfunes and Jenny Mackness have raised on the “tyranny of the open” and the pressures of normative expectations of participation
  • it seems worthwhile to reflect on these more pervasive kinds of risks or exclusions, silencing and just feeling plain old overwhelmed
  • I like this idea of “heterotopia” that Ferreday and Hodgson suggest as a way of charting a pathway through these dynamics.
  • I may be idealistic about this, but I do think it is possible avoid the tyranny of the majority and support and value multiple forms of participation and the varied whys that each co-learner brings to this network.
  • Tania Sheko on 08 Oct 14
     
    #ccourses Unit 2 Trust
  • Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
     
    #ccourses Unit 2 Trust
Terry Elliott

Experimenting with Friends (AKA, Connecting) | RhetCompNow - 2 views

rhetcompnow.com/...ng-with-friends-aka-connecting

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shared by Terry Elliott on 03 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • riffing
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 03 Dec 14
       
      Riffing is a good way to explain it. I "listen" to what he has been doing, move into it and then try to expand that harmony outside of it. Then, he seems to do the same. Here, Terry moves it all in another direction, so interestingly.
    • Simon Ensor
      Simon Ensor on 03 Dec 14
       
      yes I keep coming back to idea of music and theatrical space
  • Explain Everything
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 03 Dec 14
       
      Need to explore that app more ....
  • Slow consideration is often the most efficient consideration.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 03 Dec 14
       
      And this is something that gets lost often in the fast-paced world of digital media. It's all whizz bang pow .. move along, little doggy ... and I wish I slowed down more often, to absorb the beauty of the media moment.
    • Simon Ensor
      Simon Ensor on 03 Dec 14
       
      Yes slowing down, but on the other hand...
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  • raw practice
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 03 Dec 14
       
      There's something to be said for the raw experience, though, particularly we grapple with the confines of a tool/app/technology, try to understand the possibilities/limitations, and then push beyond that. I feel like we're always in the battle of agency with technology.
  •  I can do more.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 03 Dec 14
       
      Mantra of the day ....
    • Simon Ensor
      Simon Ensor on 03 Dec 14
       
      I can do less.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Dec 14
       
      More or less, less is more. Unless of course it is less.
  • You can spin stuff
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 03 Dec 14
       
      DJ Terry ... two turntables and a microphone .. that where it's at ...
    • Simon Ensor
      Simon Ensor on 03 Dec 14
       
      Aha DJ ing - funny how that was what I was playing with yesterday
  • feel closer to the ‘texts’
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 03 Dec 14
       
      This seems to be the crux of the remix concept, right? As we work with other media, wrangle it into something new, we get closer to the source of inspiration. We're removing some of the barriers between reader/writer, producer/consumer ... in a good way (in my opinion).
    • Simon Ensor
      Simon Ensor on 03 Dec 14
       
      I am not sure if I feel closer to texts or closer to untexts
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 03 Dec 14
       
      That is part of what I am getting at with the rhizoid quote near end. Resonance, wiggling and entangling roots.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Dec 14
       
      And who knows, maybe there is an ur-text we are all worming toward. Disturbing image, yes, but I actually love worms.
  • powerful sense of play
  • I am so thankful to be connected like this.  I think that making might be our salvation.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 03 Dec 14
       
      Yep.
  • I think that connected learning may well be the story that straddles this divide.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 03 Dec 14
       
      Here another pull-out quote that should be plastered on the virtual walls of our learning spaces.
    • Simon Ensor
      Simon Ensor on 03 Dec 14
       
      GRAFFITI i think that we are tagging virtual walls.
  • Kevin Hodgson on 03 Dec 14
     
    Terry's piece that pulls strands in, expanding them out
  • Terry Elliott on 03 Dec 14
     
    Terry's piece that pulls strands in, expanding them out
Tania Sheko

Connected by Design - YouTube - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

connected design webinar #ccourses

shared by Tania Sheko on 16 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • Tania Sheko on 16 Dec 14
     
    "In this session Kim Jaxon, Jaimie Hoffman, Danielle Astengo, Jeremy Wallace, and Jim Groom will be discussing various approaches to building a connected courses infrastructure for individual assignments, or an entire course. This session will showcase various sites faculty and graduate students have created over the semester, and hopefully inspire others to create their own connected course hub."
Kevin Hodgson

K-Log: #CCourses: Thinking Like the Web - 3 views

justywk.blogspot.com/...courses-thinking-like-web.html

ccourses mooc web

shared by Kevin Hodgson on 22 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • There's a lot of information offered by the course, but we don't have to cover all of them during these two weeks.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Oct 14
       
      "Time" becomes different when you are in an open online space. While we might put time constraints around ideas (this Make Cycle, this Learning Cycle), a true open learning space would allow entry and exit, and re-entry, at any point in time. This doesn't always jive with university criteria (finish this during this semester or you get an incomplete!)
  • sketch
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Oct 14
       
      love the sketch! The visual element dovetails nicely with the visual element of how we experience and interact with the Web. We don't all see the underlying code. We see the illusion of the graphics.
  • when people connect and realize that a gap in their knowledge can be filled by bits of information
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  • #DailyConnect feature
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Oct 14
       
      Yeah!
  • These led to a bit of conversation which made me feel that the course wasn't static but alive
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Oct 14
       
      This is so important -- that we are not writing into the wind ... that others are out there, connecting and sharing and asking questions, and pushing us to ask questions, too. When that part of a cMOOC fails, the entire endeavor is pointless. I see a course like CCourses as a place to launch from as much as dive into.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Oct 14
       
      Love your thinking in this piece, Yin.
Terry Elliott

The Downside to Being a Connected Educator | Blogging Through the Fourth Dimension - 3 views

pernillesripp.com/...-to-being-a-connected-educator

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shared by Terry Elliott on 08 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • which is a strange month anyway because aren’t we always connected?
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 08 Oct 14
       
      Yep. If you just connect in October, you are not really connected ...
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      What happens if you do like Doug Belshaw does with his BlackOps month--no overt connection for a month.
  • the moment you open up your classroom and your thoughts to the world, people will have an opinion on it.  And sometimes that opinion hurts.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 08 Oct 14
       
      A connection to the theme of trust and fluency, and also, identity. Who do we portray as ourselves in the world?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      Or worse you put stuff out into dead air and get no response.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 03 Dec 14
       
      I don't know which is worse, they are both disheartening.
  • We are awfully good at praising one another
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 08 Oct 14
       
      Echo Chamber Effect ...
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      Yes, the temptation is the gr8 valid8
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  • And then there is the feeling of constantly needing to produce
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 08 Oct 14
       
      Internalized pressure ...
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      I am trying to use some tools for this from Greg McKeon's book Essentialism
  • Being connected to a global PLN had taken the place of the local connections because somehow the exoticism of the global collaboration seemed like it would be more beneficial, yet this is not ture.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 08 Oct 14
       
      I know this feeling, too. How to balance that reaching out and reaching in so that both have value?
  • Not like this, not in this way.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      There are overt and covert connections.  There are connections we are aware of and ones that are unknown to us.  The hard fact is that we are always and everywhere connected.  That means we live in the world and the world lives in us--for good or ill.
  • thus we look incredible online.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      MDR!
Tania Sheko

A human OER | doublemirror - 6 views

mdvfunes.com/...a-human-oer

clmooc via:packrati.us ds106 ccourses IFTTT Pocket

shared by Tania Sheko on 24 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • the web does ‘make sense of what we are doing and where we individually fit in’.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 24 Oct 14
       
      HIve mind? Collective unconscious? Zeitgeist?  Not sure there is anything alive that can see more than what we hope is a fractal piece of the "Web".
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      But it is how we pull those fractals together that pushes us to consider/reconsider emerging literacies
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Oct 14
       
      I think what I mean is that no one sees it all. Just like no one can manage chaos. It doesn't mean that we can't grasp for a piece of the meaning, and maybe it is fractal, by getting a piece we might have access to a quick glimpse of it all. So many unknown unknowns and so many folk claiming to have figured it all out. Unless of course you give the classic Socratic cop-out of "I know that I know nothing." Yeah, that sucks.
  • see pattern
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 24 Oct 14
       
      humans as pattern makers even where there is none or even where they might be
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      Trusting our "gut instinct" about the viability of an online space ... will I belong here or not?
  • They are a marker of belonging as much as a marker of exclusion.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 24 Oct 14
       
      Boundaries are rigid, permeable, and semi-permeable in nature.  Are they such in our social constructs?  Is this just another pattern seen in a metaphor that extends just far enough to trip us up?  Well...I hope not. I kinda like it.
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  • All of this has felt quite unsatisfactory to me as I reflect on how to engage those people who have not made the transition to working in the open web
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 24 Oct 14
       
      There are lots of assumptions packed into the acronym soup, one being that they aren't just another example of the 'rich' getting richer.
  • Who am I in this meditated world that is the open web?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 24 Oct 14
       
      An essential question for anyone working on the web.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      Agreed
  • I want to be part of the larger whole, not just the subset.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 24 Oct 14
       
      There is a web, whole and entire that subsumes every living being on the planet. In every important way we already are part of the larger whole.  I am drawn once again to James Scott's idea of legibility.  Great summary of idea in one picture on this website: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-called-legibility/
  • a significant part of earth does not have a presence on the web
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 24 Oct 14
       
      About 60% do not have access according to this source: "Key ICT indicators for developed and developing countries and the world (totals and penetration rates)", International Telecommunications Unions (ITU), Geneva, 27 February 2013
  • am full of wonder about the kindness and gentle nature of the people in my network
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      Love the poetic ideal here, and I think it is this element that brings us back into a space to connect with others.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 27 Oct 14
       
      I have been struck by the same thoughts
  • My ‘hashtag home’
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      This phrase is so interesting to me in a lot of ways ... a hashtag both stands by itself and is connected to other posts/ideas with same hashtag. Is it just Twitter-centric? It hints at the larger architecture of our experiences in online spaces, of lifelines that we throw out to others in hopes that our words/ideas won't stand alone in silence.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 03 Dec 14
       
      It's interesting that hashtags - similar to the traditional keywords used for online search (markers) - have become communal 'spaces' or 'homes'. When we create a hashtag, are we trying to build 'homes' to invite people in? And if we use a hashtag only understood by few, our invitation is selective.
  • The tension between freedom of speech and member equality plays out in a more or less explicit way always.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      And here we have one of the central points of being in online spaces. Is it a "true space" where things can go awry? (as in real life beyond the screen). Or do we want those with opposing views filtered out from the start?
  • people who I respect do tell me consistently that the language used can feel unwelcoming at the start.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      Really? Interesting .... I have not heard that from anyone but I can see how someone might feel like it was an exclusive party of makers and less an inclusive party of "everyone." I guess ... truthfully, I never felt that with DS106.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 03 Dec 14
       
      All foreign language feels excluding.
  • Norms self-organise as people do, they are implicit. There is no explicit contracting upfront and no consequence for non-compliance that I have found in any of the MOOCs I have joined.
  • What prompted this post was a small realisation that has helped me keep the baby and let the bathwater out. May be we are overlaying the wrong construct on our online lives. May be this is not ‘a classroom’ and I am not ‘a teacher’ or ‘a learner’. May be I am just a human being using a technology to interact with other human beings  for a variety of purposes – one of which can be learning to make art, to knit or to be a good digital citizen.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      I love this realization, and agree with it. Her thoughts help connect beyond the learning itself (no matter the platform) and into the act of being a human whose part of the fabric of the world (not to get too corny about it)
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Oct 14
       
      Yes, doing much the same with my seed sharing project.
  • As a participant I can choose to be part of disturbing and ambiguous spaces.
  • For me this is about sharing ideas, it is about knowing a person not what she/he can do for me, it is about having fun together exploring stuff and not being afraid to disagree with each other and ourselves regularly.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      Me, too.
  • live life as inquiry
  • Innovation may occur where people are creatively engaged, but it cannot be dictated and it cannot be planned, it must be found from the emergent actions of people who are struggling with a task. “
  • As we struggle with the task we follow a set of norms and learn something off-book – how to live and learn on the open web.
  • This is in the background not the foreground and I think this matters when I compare it with other experiences
  • power dynamics exist in the shadow of groups perhaps too often. These get played out covertly, unspoken and our options when we do not like it are limited. Stay and comply or leave.
  • This sorting process, by definition, includes some people and excludes others.
  • In online learning communities, it seems to me, we are using hashtags as our ‘brand’.
  • It creates a mantra, the chanting of which identifies you as a member. People who are ‘in’ are quite willing to surrender to this higher authority. People who are not ‘in’ are ‘out’ and are subject to various sanctions from the group, including hostility.
  • A reviewer to one of my papers said  ‘that the practice that many share in virtual courses is just studying online and that in less structured communities people just end up talking about their experience of studying.’
  • the task is coming together online and this leads to a bias towards consent not dissent. This is problematic for diversity.
  • You need only scan how people wear their cMOOC attendance as an online resume or badge of honour
  • The hashtags are created to stand for something and as with any collection of individuals who identify with something, the quality of the interaction can ‘go south’ as people find their feet and implicit norms a majority share evolve. This is what happens when a group is left to self-organise.
  • People interact in dysfunctional ways if left to their own devices more often than not. Online it seems a ‘escape clause’ for making any behaviour acceptable  is “it is not real, it is the internet”  and “you can always move on if you don’t like it”.
Jeffrey Keefer

Teaching with Inoreader - 0 views

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teaching #ccourses

shared by Jeffrey Keefer on 23 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Jeffrey Keefer on 23 Nov 14
     
    via @OnlineCrsLady #ccourses
Jeffrey Keefer

Omnifeed - Teaching with Inoreader - 0 views

sites.google.com/...omnifeed

#ccourses

shared by Jeffrey Keefer on 23 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Jeffrey Keefer on 23 Nov 14
     
    Omnifeed - Teaching with Inoreader via @OnlineCrsLady #ccourses
Terry Elliott

Don't Abandon the World | Attention Must Be Paid | RhetCompNow - 1 views

rhetcompnow.com/...e-world-attention-must-be-paid

terry ccourses list

shared by Terry Elliott on 12 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • ripped all 20 ways
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 12 Jan 15
       
      I am all about the rip ... and sharing inspirational thinking ...
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 12 Jan 15
       
      ripremix...remixrip...ripemixr...anagrams anyone?
  • Change Perspective Reframe the familiar
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 12 Jan 15
       
      These two dovetail nicely, right? Finding the time to do this -- and the energy -- is important, and yet ... how many of us do it? 
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 12 Jan 15
       
      Love the Stones in the background singing "Gimme Shelter"
  • Poeticize the irritating
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 12 Jan 15
       
      What ... the ...heck ...does ... that...mean? Another phone call ringing off the hook three on the main line seven on the cell all to tell us what we already figured out on our own by looking out the window ... school has been cancelled due to the white covering and the threat of rain, freezing all of our plans in their tracks....
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 12 Jan 15
       
      Hmmm ... poem formatting got flattened there ....
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 12 Jan 15
       
      But isn't flattened as I read it.  Did you 'fix' it somehow?
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 12 Jan 15
       
      No -- it was flattened in the text box when I was annotating but seems OK here .. strange, right? Am I flat stanley or not?
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • Soundmap
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 12 Jan 15
       
      I want to do more with soundmapping .... I am  reading Steven Johnson's How We Got to Now and the chapter on how sound transformed out lives is so interesting ...
  • bullet points all week by adding my own annotations to them using Diigo
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 12 Jan 15
       
      I wanted my comments to mesh with your comments, but found I hit a wall and could not remember how to do that, so I have made my own. http://gph.is/18S0U2u
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 12 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 12 Jan 15
       
      OK, I am annotating your annotated link right here.  So...it does work and you can collaborate and its serves Beltran right for being a Yankee now.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 12 Jan 15
       
      Yer talking to a Yankee fan ...
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