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From the blog Connectivism by George Siemens, December 14 2011. Siemens argues the importance of artifacts to help students make sense of their experiences in MOOCs and other online learning experiences.

From this librarian's perspective, GSCC has proven the richness of an e-community's artifact collection. We are thinking about how to integrate the artifacts even further into the experience in GSCC 2.0.

Goog*lio noun (1) a hybrid next generation e-portfolio that utilizes emerging open, social, web2.0, and Google applications such as blogs, wikis, social networks and software to create a student created and controlled personal learning environment and lifelong content management system that can be shared and viewed from different perspectives, within various contexts, and for multiple purposes. noun (2) a free and easy to use portfolio web site for individuals to design as a space, story, and system that functions as a workspace and showcase for learners to collect, select, reflect, publish, link, archive, and demonstrate knowledge, skills, reflections, through multimedia artifacts. verb (3) "googlio it" to publish and connect a digital artifact to your webfolio. origin: rooted in the word folio (as in Da Vinci) + Google (as in all the free Google Apps & Tools) and evolved from portfolio -->

Part of Annenberg Learner, each series listed here has a selection of videos available for download. Topics range from surveys of American and World literatures, to teaching students to work with artifacts, to developing writers. Grade ranges vary by series. Production of these videos is supported by the Annenberg Foundation.

Posted by George Siemens on his blog elearnspace, September 5 2011. Siemens argues that instructors can't provide "coherence" for knowledge just by "broadcasting" a course. He suggests that coherence is about how "*we* connect information elements and how we use artifacts and narratives to share that coherence." I am interested in the idea of "information foraging," especially in the context of content curation.

Bartholomae and Petrosky's important work on the basic writing program at Pitt is an important early text in our field.

By Martin Luther King, Jr., April 16, 1963, as posted by the African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania.