Posted in CCK09, Research, eLearning, tagged connected, connections, Connectivism, connectivity, education, eLearning, learning, siemens, teaching, technology on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I keep coming across great questions which really make me stop and think.
George Siemens asked four really thought provoking questions in the Networked Learning Conference 2010 Hot Seat
What skills/attributes do learners need in order to learn effectively with networked technologies?
What role will educators need to fulfill in networked learning environments?
Can learning networks (partly) replace the [...]
Posted in Blogging, tagged blogging, blogs, connections, emails, twitter on October 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week I was in a meeting where a colleague said ‘If a post can’t be written in 140 characters it’s not worth writing’ or words to that effect. It might have been ‘not worth reading’. Shock horror! Where does this leave a slow, slow blogger, a person who always has to pause before thinking, a [...]
Posted in CCK08, tagged community, connected, connections, Connectivism, connectivity, facebook on August 8, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Last year I wrote about my mother’s connectedness – http://jennymackness.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/177/
When you are 83, connectedness takes on a new meaning year by year. This year my mother’s connectedness is ’shrinking’. Those who she can readily connect to (albeit never online) are dying. And she is becoming forgetful. Her neural connections do not work as well as [...]
Posted in Blogging, CCK08, tagged aggregator, blogging, blogs, CCK08, communities, community, connections, nancywhite, network, networks, tonykarrer on February 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Did you follow the CCK08 course? You remember all that talking we did about how difficult it was to keep tabs on all the blogs you wanted to follow – well Nancy White (who I’m sure you’ll remember from the CCK08 course if you didn’t already know her from elsewhere) and Tony Karrer have obviously recognised [...]
Posted in Blogging, CCK08, tagged blogging, blogs, CCK08, connections, downes, learning on February 24, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Thanks to John and Matthias I am still thinking about if blogs might offer a distinctive type of conversation compared to other types of online communication and if so how are they distinctive?
A quick internet search has shown that people have been writing about reasons for blogging, and characteristics of bloggers for the past 5 years. [...]
Posted in CCK08, Communities of practice, tagged community, connections, connectivitism, identity, Ning on February 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The subject of the research paper that I have recently submitted (with a colleague) is the challenges facing ‘artificially’ created communities. By this we mean communities that are set up as part of a funded project. We found that there are significant challenges, as you would expect, to be faced when the funding ceases. The project [...]
Posted in CCK08, tagged connections, networks, CCK08, valdiskrebs, email, weakties on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is another slide from Valdis Krebs presentation that caught my attention.
Email Clusters
There’s hope for lurkers, the inhibited, the shy, the intimidated and the lacking in confidence people here! This slide shows people with strong and frequent interactions /connections linked with the dark lines. But as the slide shows very clearly, without the weak ties [...]
Posted in CCK08, tagged CCK08, connections, hierarchies, networks, organisations, valdiskrebs, whitespace on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This was another interesting slide from Valdis Krebs
Here we have a view of what is going on behind the organisational hierarchy, i.e. the connections in the white space (grey lines) that are being made to get the job done.
So in this course, or in any course,
How much ‘back-channelling’ is going on?
How many people are making [...]
Posted in CCK08, tagged blogs, CCK08, connections, forums on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There has been some discussion about whether blogs or forums are better for connecting. I expect there is no right or wrong answer here – it will be a matter of personal choice. Personally I see the function of each as different.
As I see it, the forums are for asynchronous discussion between large or small [...]
Posted in CCK08, tagged Connectivism, downes, connected, connections, CCK08, participation, hodgson on September 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have just made this blog public. I have kept quite a few blogs before but they have never been public. In the past I have invited a few people in and used them either as reflective journals or as a means of keeping my thinking about a given project in one place. This has always served my [...]
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