F2F and online teaching

Mike Bogle’s reflection on his presentation skills – http://techticker.net/2009/08/27/self-assessment-of-my-presentation-skills/ – strikes a chord with me. I always unpick my ‘performance’ in detail after a presentation or a course, either online or offline – but I tend not to do it in public as Mike has done. Through a long career which has involved being interviewed, [...]

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Is blog conversation distinctive?

There must have been some research done on this question.  I will have to dig around. I have started to think about this in response to ‘conversations’ with Mike and Lani on this blog and with John via a Skype call this morning.
Mike has commented that discussion is spread across blog comments, tweets, emails, f2f [...]

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What makes a post valuable?

This is a question that has been asked by Alice  MacGillivray in one of the CPsquare community forums and an interesting discussion is going on there. It seemed to me that this question is very relevant to recent discussions in some people’s blogs about reasons for blogging. Do discussions happen in blogs or is it a [...]

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Valdis Krebs on Networks

This was a great presentation – very engaging, although my head was physically hurting by the end – and well summarised here by Stephen Downes – http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/connectivism/?p=136
I think what I liked so much about it was that it was as if we were listening to a series of stories. I could relate to almost all [...]

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Connectivism & Connective Knowledge

I signed up for this course yesterday http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/connectivism/ - a bit late and am chasing my tail to catch up. I have briefly looked at some of the readings for this week, but none of last weeks yet. I have promised myself that I will not spend more than 2 hours a day on this.
I have [...]

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