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Tania Sheko

A human OER | doublemirror - 6 views

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  • 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”.
Terry Elliott

touches of sense...: At heart. - 4 views

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ifttt delicious diigo

shared by Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • At heart
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      Be at heart Beat heart Be at heart Beat heart
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 29 Sep 14
       
      Beatitude Beat attitude Be attitude Be at Blessed are those who be and breathe Together To gather Each  other.
  • heart beating
  • space
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  • keeps us breathing
  • together
  • How does together
  • express together
  • as of one
  • embryonically aware of being contained
  • precognitively aware of being connected
  • Rejoice.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      LOVE LOVE LOVE cello
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      I played this while I read and reread your post.  Perfection.
  • I am one of yours, my friends.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      None of this seems possible, yet it is.
  • I feel your presence.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      To think about people I have never "met." Have we met? It feels muchly like that answer is yes.  
  • edge of my reason
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      we are all on edges, out here together, in some kind of weird edge-filled connected space...I seem to have found my people, far-flung throughout the planet.
  • How does singularity feel? How do we express being a part, being apart?
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      yes yes yes good question good questions
  • Hunger  to move?
Kevin Hodgson

Teaching Beyond Tropes: Needle in a Haystack - 4 views

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ifttt delicious diigo

shared by Kevin Hodgson on 28 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • The massiveness of a MOOC is not just about numbers, but about depth and intricacy.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      Massively open Massively cooperative Massively complex Massively connected Massively entangled
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 28 Sep 14
       
      And massively collaborative!
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      massively fun.... You know, the intricacy of #clmooc was a surprise for me, since I had never been involved in such a nonlinear "course" - it takes getting used to, but once you do, you can't imagine it being any other way....which is why some of the PD fare I am in now seems ever so flat.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      The expression for me is simple:  skin in the game.  I am absolutely enamored of 'packet kid': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3h5jcI-MFI
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      Terry, I love him too. I saw this a while back and was cheering him on. He is so exactly right.
  • influence of God or a god
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      I am thinking of Pan here.  You know...the panpipes.  i have such wonderful associations with this word because of The Wind in the Willows. The very title of Grahame's book is a reference to Pan and the gods of otters and water rats and moles and badgers and toads. I read this book over and over to my children growing up.  I want Chapter Seven to be read aloud to me as I die. It is titled "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" --Pan, the source of all inspiration, speaking to use through the wind in the willows at the gates of dawn.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      I am inspired here to suggest that your blog like every loved thing or space has a genius loci, a Pan of its own living within like the little island in the middle of the weir in The Wind in the Willows.  Your work is to give it room to breathe out that inspiration, to be another's wind in the willows.  There really are undiscovered connections everywhere.  Holy digital spaces that we believe in because others do and because we do.  Inspiring, breathing in, like the zephyr at dawn. Sweet and wild and impossible to word.
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  • the fact that something bigger than "us" is at play here
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      Yes, in teaching I yearn for these moments where the artifice fades away, the planning drops off, the dross of the past is slagged off and a new presence is born.  We become the pipers at the gates of dawn if only for a few moments and the seeming chaos of improvisation, of taking our lead from the pipedreams in the ayre, becomes impossibly logical, a transcendent logic.  And no wonder we are called 'touched' because we damned well are.  And the world in these times makes abject sense, abject in the sense that wonder and awe always cast off sense.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 28 Sep 14
       
      Good way to put it ... something larger but not unrecognizable
  • (you get the idea).
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      We get the idea because it is a river that passes through this familiar yet undiscovered country.  We all come to it through teaching for whatever reason. Teaching flips the switch that allows us to see the light that "grows and grows" in Wind in the Willows.
  • Mimi's post was added to the Diigo group so we could all jump in and annotate.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      Mimi's post is just a little rowboat, a place to put the hamper as we search for Old Otter beloved youngest child along the river banks.  (Please read Chapter Seven of Wind in the Willows here: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/289/289-h/289-h.htm#link2H_4_0007).  Not to put too hyperbolic a point on it--we really are here to rescue children at this point from the leg traps and snares of the world.  Instead we should be taking them to meet the pipers at the gates of dawn.
  • resonated with me - and made me laugh
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      If you love words, you'll love 'resonate'--I think it is directly analogous to the word recursion. Where recursion is tied to vision, resonation is tied to the ear.  It is not an old word at all according to the OED.  it is a science word. Many disciplines use it. To re-sound, to be a re-sounding board, to echo back and forth.  It is like the empathy of mirror neurons.  It is memory and the experience of shared discipline and questions and ranging out into the world.  We are all looking for someone's lost child.  We have all found Pan at the Gates of Dawn.  Hence the resonating chord stretched between us and only felt as it vibrates, akin.
  • an amalgamation
  • an amalgamation
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      I think that we skirt around the issue of how we go beyond an "amalgamation" when we lower our gates and release the bloody-minded wards of routine. We really are Kevin and Mimi and Maha and Alan (well, maybe not Alan ;-) ).  I think they are our fractal selves.  Is that nuts? Is that perhaps lowering the prison walls a bit too much?  None of us is free.  We are all tied to each other.  If one goes down, the rest of us will be pulled down the mountain. Do I really believe that as more than a damned abstraction?  Sometimes.  At the best of times.  All the time? I just gotta keep working that garden.
  • "We may not be too big to fail, but [she] would like to believe that we are too diverse to fail and distributed to fail."
  • What inspired me to create
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 28 Sep 14
       
      Here is the phrase we should see bending all over the place: "What inspired me to create"
  • we are too happily enmeshed to fail
Kevin Hodgson

Connected Courses: Towards a guilt-free learning zone…. | WorldLiterate - 0 views

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  • Those who lurk also learn
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Sep 14
       
      It's just not always visible
Terry Elliott

touches of sense...: Reaching out. - 1 views

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ifttt delicious diigo

shared by Terry Elliott on 03 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • The person is often only aware of feeling of constraint. We pick away at those constraints little by little. Meaningful time spent with one person has a viral effect on other students who are witnesses to the uniquely meaninful dialogue. Such moments of connection become virtuous, viral messages.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 03 Oct 14
       
      I absolutely love and identify with this paragraph.
  • Meaningful time spent with one person has a viral effect on other students who are witnesses to the uniquely meaninful dialogue. Such moments of connection become virtuous, viral messages.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Oct 14
       
      This is a full tru dat moment.
Terry Elliott

touches of sense...: Zootopia? - 0 views

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ifttt delicious diigo

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  • I would like to imagine that in the future our children will look at the enclosures in which past generations were kept as absurd anachrosnism.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 05 Oct 14
       
      The first time I used blogs in the secondary high school I first taught at it felt like a not only opening up the cages, but also knocking holes in the walls so that no one could ever use them as cages again.  At least for the students who I was working with, I think this was true.  Once they tasted that freedom there was no going back.  The ultimate check valve.
  • Whatever happened to grand narrative?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 05 Oct 14
       
      Well...maybe it's all grand narrative all the way down.  For example,  I had a grand day outside.  Frost was expected last night so we had to dig our peanuts and check out the sweet potatoes to see if they were ready to dig (tradition here is to dig them after a frost).  I think we are going to get about a five to one return on the peanuts (yield per pound planted) and God knows on the sweet taters.  That is a grand narrative isn't it.  One of the grandest narratives.  Agriculture.  And it is not one that without its...sad side.  I was introduced to a grander narrative only a short while after we had battened down the garden to save the tomatoes and peppers and flowers from frost.  My wife discovered a corn snake trapped in some bird netting.  Corn snakes are the glory of the constrictors round these parts.  Bright orange with diamonds patterns and black and white bellies.  Astonishing.  If you catch sight of of one in the wild you cannot believe that such a creature could hide from anything.  Too bright.  Too shiny.  Yet...I have seen them slither away and disappear like the Cheshire Cat.   We cut the netting away from him/her.  Took her away from where the chickens might do her in (chickens are notorious snake enemies) and released her.  She immediately serpentined about in a threatening "s" to let us know that she was not to be anthropomorphized. Three feet of grand narrative, millions of years old, with a legacy that lives on in one of the parts of our triune brain.  I was unconsciously sweating the whole time I was cutting her away from the netting with scissors. I could not help it.  That narrative is a potent legacy, not to be thrown off by my rational self that told me over and over that there was no danger.  That is a grand narrative.   So here I relate the narrative with words (pix to follow in a blog post).  Whatever happened to the grand narrative?  Is anyone an island entire unto herself?  Should we not consider the unveilin
  • fellow 'students' appeared to have their lives mapped out.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 05 Oct 14
       
      Maps into the future--nothing inherently wrong with that.  The danger is in thinking that any cartographer could draw one for us.  We are not alone in this struggle, but we are still Daniel Boone when it comes to blazing our own trail.  Any other map is the wrong one pulled from the cosmic junk drawer, the Procrustean one that will make us fit.  Now that is a myth that comes true every day. 
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  • He had become too dependent on his comfort.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 05 Oct 14
       
      I was looking for a reference to the paradoxical phrase "risks may be our safeties in disguise" when I found a post I had written in Blogger in 2001 (http://tellio.blogspot.com/2001/06/my-eyes-are-shot.html).  The takeaway quote is this: "I think John Berryman once said in a sonnet that risks may be our safeties in disguise. I put my hope in that paradox. I put my heart in the safety of change."  So, Enso, the grand narrative is this: [Animated gif of the undrawing of the enso]
Terry Elliott

Teaching Beyond Tropes - 1 views

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  • Time.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 07 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 07 Jan 15
       
      time is so relative...if you're a freaking time lord!
  • it's been a long.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
      I was born by the river In a little tent And just like the river I've been running ever since It's been a long, long time coming But I know a change gonna come Oh, yes it will It's been too hard living But I'm afraid to die I don't know what's up there beyond the sky It's been a long, long time coming But I know a change gonna come Oh yes it will Then I go to my brother I say brother help me please But he winds up knocking me Back down on my knees There's been times that I thought I couldn't last for long But now I think I'm able to carry on It's been a long, long time coming But I know a change is gonna come Oh, yes it will Sam Cooke - It's Been A Long Time Coming Lyrics | 
  • That's all relative
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
      Passing through your personal event horizon.
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  • maintain
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
      maintain, v. (meɪnˈteɪn, mənˈteɪn)  L. phrase manū tenēre, lit. 'to hold in one's hand' (manū abl. of manus hand; tenēre to hold). 
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
  • after which I got lost in VA someplace as my phone died and darkness fell and the Famous Virginia Traffic Overtook).
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
  • The pain levels in my body have not.
  • Today was a good day. And...tomorrow will be another good one.
  • Today was a good day. And...tomorrow will be another good one.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
  • I have been yearning to connect
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
      Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
  • So. Connections.  
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
      Scroll down in this annotation.
  • Capture Moments
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
      Me, too.  Here is a post on Medium on how to pay attention:https://medium.com/re-form/how-to-pay-attention-4751adb53cb6  Remember the word maintain comes from the French: main+tenir=to hold in one's hand.
  • the times when less pain has reared its head.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
      and short moments of...?  Not pain.  Joy.  Chronic Pain is so hard.  You need to visit a friend of mine and her blog: https://chronichopes.wordpress.com/
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
      And here is a zeega I made back then in response to one of her posts. One of my bests I think.  Hope you get something from it.
  • pileated woodpecker
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
      'round here they are called 'peckerwoods' with some other connotations when used to describe a particularly bullying backwoods igmo (ignorant moron).
  • chess board and challenging him to a few games as we both learn to play chess.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
      So kind.   Why is  chess such an affinity drug? Because We  war together  against the  game.
  • (You wanna?)
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
      I lost your invite to play. Please send it again.  
  • meditation-doodling
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
  • Zentangle
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
      QUANTUM ZENTANGLEMENT
  • I need a cMOOC.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
Kevin Hodgson

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

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

ccourses mooc web

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  • 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.
Maha Abdelmoneim

Key Pedagogic Thinkers - Dave Cormier - Journal of Pedagogic Development - 2 views

www.beds.ac.uk/...y-pedagogic-thinkers-maha-bali

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  • when I think about MOOCs I think there's a connection between them and really good conferences, where people expect them to come around every year, and they get a tone and a feeling
    • Maha Abdelmoneim
      Maha Abdelmoneim on 30 Sep 14
       
      Idea! In some conferences there are break out rooms dedicated to different topics. How about using hangouts and Google docs to create those spaces for synchronous and asynchronous conversations?
Charles Greenberg

International Games Day @ your library - 0 views

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games IGD international library

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  • Charles Greenberg on 29 Sep 14
     
    Coming soon. Still time to support a local academic or public library.
  • Charles Greenberg on 29 Sep 14
     
    Teach them connected learning at the same time.
  • Terry Elliott on 03 Oct 14
     
    Not all hidden agendum are bad. Some are just lurking. Backgrounded.
swatson217

Unconference & Backchannels as Sidorkin's Third DiscourseReflecting Allowed | Reflectin... - 3 views

blog.mahabali.me/...s-as-sidorkins-third-discourse

unconference discourse ccourses

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  • backchannel conversations with people via social media; and unconferences
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 24 Sep 14
       
      In many ways, this is the value of the open education movement -- the chance to interact without direct instruction from the "talking head" in the classroom. It's a dip into the unknown, though, and requires a certain social media/reading skills -- what to ignore and what to pay attention to, and how does it all connect to the learning and discovery
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 27 Sep 14
       
      I agree about the talking head!
  • one’s own nonsense may be someone else”s sense
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 24 Sep 14
       
      This could be an alternative tag line for my blog!
  • by focusing on my small groups of people (often not even using the hashtag to be honest; sometimes in DM or in private hangouts; other times in public on blogs) I am making my own path as I intersect with others’ paths.
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  • Sidorkin suggests the latter is the best part of a good party.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 25 Sep 14
       
      This reminds me of MIT's unhangout software with breakout rooms.
  • But then the best part of a conference
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 25 Sep 14
       
      Yes, I can remember at every conference there is a canceled presentation where folks gather around and just chat about...stuff--ad hoc and improvisational. We need a simple discussion protocol that is quick in and quick out, save for asynchronous discussion.
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      Did you see that post by... A wordpress site called emergentbydesign (Simon shared it, i think) where the author suggests a kind of mindful chat roulette based on interest?
  • Kevin Hodgson on 24 Sep 14
     
    on the value of the backchannel conversations
  • swatson217 on 27 Sep 14
     
    on the value of the backchannel conversations
Kevin Hodgson

Newest Syndicated Blogs | Connected Courses - 0 views

connectedcourses.net/...newest

ccourses blogging comments

shared by Kevin Hodgson on 22 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Kevin Hodgson on 22 Sep 14
     
    Wanted to add this list of blogs to our Diigo and point out the "random post generator" -- I've been doing regular travels around the CCourse blogosphere because it seems as if commenting is not really happening on any grand scale here.
Kevin Hodgson

How to Stay Connected (collab poem) - 1 views

titanpad.com/sXgaTJMniP

ccourses

shared by Kevin Hodgson on 03 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Kevin Hodgson on 03 Oct 14
     
    with podcast link added
Terry Elliott

Everything Connects: a book review by Harold Jarche - 1 views

ino.to/1mYyrWs

shared by Terry Elliott on 03 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Terry Elliott on 03 Oct 14
     
    A quiet little review by one of my favorite bloggers and trainers, Harold Jarche. Great quote here: They suggest dating new ideas from three main sources, of which the second is the most important in my opinion. The media you consume. The people you see. The events you attend.
Kevin Hodgson

Mimi Ito - Weblog: Trust Falls and My Whys for Connected Courses - 0 views

www.itofisher.com/..._falls_and_my_why_for_con.html

ccourses

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  • Kevin Hodgson on 08 Oct 14
     
    "paper"
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