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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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