a better sense of how the course is being perceived and how participants would like to see it go in the future
Howard Rheingold Connected Courses - How is #ccourses going? Where should it go? Let's ... - 6 views
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I see it as a a rich space where I am responsible for my own learning and knowing. But I am also responsible for those who are with me. I worry that I don't get more of a sense of who has skin in the game and who doesn't. I am trying to use these tools in my own connected courses, I am trying to connect with students here and in those classes. How do I make connecting as routine as a syllabus AND how do I make it as valued as a syllabus. I want to know more about how I can navigate the existing sharky waters of hied. How have others used aikido moves to enable connected values and principles in what amount to mostly unconvivial sharing tools.
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My only wonder/concern is that other than you, Howard (and Alan, to some degree, earlier), facilitators seem to be absent from the online conversations, other than the scheduled video hangouts. It can feel a bit ... like the classrooms that Connected Courses is trying to remix, where the knowledgeable person in the front of the room (or in the hangout on my screen), talks and shares expertise, but then is not all that active in the ancillary conversations going on outside of the classroom (hangout). Tell me I am missing those conversations, and I will be happy/content in that knowledge. When I bounce around the blogs, I am most often likely to see you (Howard), Terry, Mariana, and a few others in the comment sections. Maybe more plans for projects like #WhyIteach are in the mix (hope so) and ways to get folks to make content (a shared ethos of open learning? A collaborative letter to a Dean about the need for more connective learning? etc) connect deeper will emerge (doubly-hope-so).
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You just reminded me: I see nothing in the course design that helps people who are TEACHING students and involving them in #ccourses to help those students interact with each other. I am mostly seeing other educators here...
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Agreeing with Kevin here. There are a couple of other facilitators active in some spaces. Helen on twitter and blogs (did not realize she was a facilitator at first, though); Mia Zamora (she's a facilitator, right?) and Jonathan on Google+ and Mimi is starting to respond on Twitter now. But in general, I would have expected the facilitators to be active throughout and across. The only ones who are really doing that are Howard and Alan. As in, they were there from the very beginning (pre-pre-course) and everywhere in all spaces, "listening" & responding. Not every facilitator can read/listen to everything (though Alan/Howard almost seem like they do! don't know how!) but given the sheer number of facilitators their responsive presence has potential to be so much stronger.
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I am agreeing with Kevin and Maha.
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I hear you and we're working on it. Give it a few days and you'll see some action.
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You guys are the greatest. Really proud to be working with you.
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I realize, too, my comment goes against the grain of Connected Learning. While I appreciate all the facilitators, I shouldn't sit around and wait for them. As Howard notes, "What it is, is up to us."
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I don't think its going against the grain, exactly, Kevin. It's a kind of speaking out. And it's also the case that some learners need more direction, or more support or explicit permission in knowing they can take their own direction... If that makes sense?
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pump.io by e14n - 1 views
Experimenting with Friends (AKA, Connecting) | RhetCompNow - 2 views
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riffing
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Explain Everything
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Slow consideration is often the most efficient consideration.
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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’.
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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".
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But it is how we pull those fractals together that pushes us to consider/reconsider emerging literacies
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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.
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see pattern
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They are a marker of belonging as much as a marker of exclusion.
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