Xplaner
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
This quote (&# The half of knowledge, is knowing where to find knowledge&# ) is inscribed over the doors of Dodd Hall at FSU. Apparently no one knows who actually said this , but it seems very applicable to the conversation about the importance of the network in connectivism. Authored by gminks. Hosted by Edublogs.
Boxes and Arrows
SEPTEMBER 18, 2008
I started writing this article with an emphasis on the financial domain. I then realized that I would like to broaden the focus because my findings are also applicable to a general domain like email account registrations, for example. In this article, I would like to take a simple example of how users register for an email account online. For a first timer, is the transition from a real world of letter writing to the online medium easy?
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Bennett Cherry
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
Were any of the rest of you surprised to learn that Google has jumped a few notable brands to land in the top 10 brands in the world, as measured by Interbrand? I wasn't all that surprised. If you have a computer and use it at least once per day, you have likely also trolled your brain daily for the only search outcome phrase you need: "I googled it".
Boxes and Arrows
SEPTEMBER 18, 2008
It starts with any number of scenarios: Design and development have taken too long to produce a prototype, you need to release in three weeks, and you suspect there may be design flaws. You are trying to incorporate usability testing into an Agile development process. Or maybe you simply want to pare down your process to make it shorter and less expensive.
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Xplaner
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
Ok, I give! CCK08 is officially killing me! I’m going to try and hang in there. I think the problem is that the topics are so meaty, and interesting, that I want to only do this class and nothing else. For instance, this post has been sitting in my head for a while. I just haven’t been able to get the words together to do real justice to the idea in my head.
Boxes and Arrows
SEPTEMBER 12, 2008
Even if you’re trying to find one, the connections among Elliott Malkin ’s body of work are hard to see. Part family history, part science project, part home-movie, his projects span genres that, initially, seem incidental. Yet many of his web-based projects—whether they investigate “butterfly vision&# or install digital graffiti throughout lower Manhattan—are connected in one simple way: they all explore unofficial signals in public space.
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Boxes and Arrows
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
Hot on the heels of our two women bloggers sessions at the Brandon Hall conference , Janet Clarey points out that Zaid's list of 25 Great Edublogs features only three women-- Cathy Moore (who joined us in our women who blog workshops), Jane Hart and Patricia Donaghy. Janet rightly notes that given the large number of female edubloggers, it is interesting that only three would make Zaid's list.
Boxes and Arrows
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
At last week's Brandon Hall Conference , I remixed David Wilcox and Beth Kanter's fabulous Social Media game for my workshop introducing learning professionals to Web 2.0 and learning ( Go here to download the game cards if you're interested in using them). I divided my group of about 25-30 people into 6 teams (it was supposed to be 8, but apparently we had problems counting) and gave each team a deck of cards and a learning scenario.
Boxes and Arrows
SEPTEMBER 29, 2008
Over at Work Literacy: Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals , the first module on social networking is up. We wanted to start with social networking because we're using Ning to run the course, but I will say that this is a BIG topic to cover right out of the gate. Let's just say that although I thought I'd get some serious veg time yesterday after my week in San Jose, I spent quite a bit of my Sunday pulling together the modules into some kind of coherent order.
Boxes and Arrows
SEPTEMBER 29, 2008
On Thursday, October 2, at 11:30 a.m. (EST) the eLearning Guild will be hosting a free webinar to discuss their most recent 360 Report on e-Learning 2.0. I'll be there with report co-authors, Tony Karrer , Brent Schlenker , Jane Hart , Mark Oehlert , Steve Wexler , and Sanjay Parker. (Unfortunately Will Thalheimer won't be able to join us.). If you want to learn more about how social media is being used for learning in companies, colleges/universities and other organizations, you should definite
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Xplaner
SEPTEMBER 25, 2008
EMC (the company that I work for) is sponsoring Boston Social Media Breakfast #9. If you are in the New England area, you should come out! The last one I went to left me very energized! Here’s the agenda: SMB9 Theme: Starting Social Media and Community-Building Programs with a Reluctant Executive. SMB9 will feature three, eight-minute presentations on getting executive support for engaging in social media communities - tales from the enterprise trenches.
Xplaner
SEPTEMBER 26, 2008
This week has been about networks in the CCK08 course. I haven’t posted or responded much to posts. My excuses: End of the quarter at work. Group at school is non-technical, I’m practicing positive inter-dependence and helping them. But I have been reading, and thinking, and talking about the information flowing through the CCK08 network about networks.
Boxes and Arrows
SEPTEMBER 25, 2008
PLE is a way of viewing learning on the web--we're not centered on one application. Stephen's PLE: Store photos ( Flickr ) and video ( Google video ). Place to work collaboratively through Google docs. Way to stay up to date ( Google Reader )-- My note--only 4-5 people in this group of about 40 who use RSS!!! Way to save money on long-distance calls ( Skype ).
Boxes and Arrows
SEPTEMBER 25, 2008
Presentation was by Reuben Tozman President of EdCetra Training. He started with Father Guido Sarducci's 5-Minute University, based on what people remember 5 years after they graduate from college. Response to this is Personalized, Just-in-Time, Performance Support Training. Visual Thesaurus as an example of what's possible with semantic web. Build scenarios that are not based on yes/no answers, but bringing answers to people of what they need to have in that moment.
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Boxes and Arrows
SEPTEMBER 25, 2008
It's 5 a.m. in San Jose. I'm sharing a room at the Brandon Hall conference with Christine Martell , so our room is strewn with various Apple products, including her new 3G iPhone and both of our MacBooks. Yesterday we did our pre-conference sessions. Janet Clarey and I ran an afternoon workshop on getting a jumpstart with social media where we showed people how to use the conference tags and wiki, Twitter, Delicious, RSS etc.
Xplaner
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
In the spirit of the CCK08 theme of the week (Networks) I must ask about a roadblock I am seeing in involving the masses in social media. Does marketing own social media? The social media groups I am involved with are all run by marketers. The marketing group in my company are the early adopters of social media in the Enterprise. Marketers see the reasons for connecting, breaking through silos, etc.
Boxes and Arrows
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
On Monday, September 29, Harold Jarche , Tony Karrer and I are opening the doors on a free 6-week learning event that will help people get up to speed on social media and how it can be used to support learning. The "course" is sponsored by Work Literacy and the eLearning Guild , in part as a run-up to DevLearn 2008. But don't worry--everyone is welcome.
Xplaner
SEPTEMBER 21, 2008
When we talk about networks in constructivism or group theory, my mind always compares them to computer networks. It’s the easiest reference I can pull up, since I deal with computer networking on a daily basis. I’m going to try and post a series of posts including some mindmaps to help me make sense of my comparisons of a computer network to the connectivist’s network.
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Boxes and Arrows
SEPTEMBER 18, 2008
I'm halfway following the Connectivism course , while also preparing to leave in a few hours for the Nonprofit Roundtable Future ED Fellowship course where we'll be exploring concepts of leadership over the next few days. This morning I was hit by two really important statements: Teaching is modeling and demonstration. Learning is practice and reflection.
Xplaner
SEPTEMBER 17, 2008
I have another entry in the “Don’t Do This&# category. Don’t make the students work harder than necessary to access what they need for assignments. For instance, if you know forgetting to name a document.doc will confuse the download mechanism on Blackboard, make sure to add the.doc to the document name. Authored by gminks. Hosted by Edublogs.
Xplaner
SEPTEMBER 17, 2008
This month’s Big Question over on the Learning Circuits Blog is about To-Learn lists. Here are the specific questions: If you have a to-learn list and are willing to share, and willing to share how you work with that list, that would likely be helpful information. As Knowledge Workers, work and learning are the same, so how does a to-learn list really differ from a to-do list?
Xplaner
SEPTEMBER 17, 2008
I am marking up the article “Rhizomatic Education - Community as Curriculum&# in diigo at this URL. My two biggest thoughts: This article talks alot about construction. I thought connectivism was not about constructing? I can see having some dynamic infrastructure where the community creates the curriculum. But, speaking from my experience as a techie, wouldn’t this sort of community expect a base level of knowledge before allowing new people to access the community?
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Xplaner
SEPTEMBER 17, 2008
I’m going to start a new category called “Don’t Do This&#. Since I am a 100% distance student in my graduate program, I’m experiencing all sorts of frustration around the way classes are built and managed. This category will start collecting my thoughts (as a student) on things you should think about when designing classes so that your students don’t experience this frustration too.
Boxes and Arrows
SEPTEMBER 17, 2008
One of the newest things on the learning landscape, I've noticed, is the use of comics. Dan Pink's career guide, "The Adventures of Johnny Bunko," is one example, and I've also seen some comics designed to teach you things like physics and chemistry. With that in mind, I thought it would be fun to devote this week's Web 2.0 Wednesday to making a comic.
Boxes and Arrows
SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
Next week I'll be at the Brandon Hall Innovations in Learning Conference , where I will be doing a half-day pre-conference session with Janet Clarey on using social media to get the most out of the conference and a Social Media 101 session later in the week. I'll also be participating in a panel discussion on Women Who Blog with Janet, Cathy Moore , Kristina Schneider , Christine Martell , and Emma King.
Xplaner
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
Today, I set up a demonstration of Second Life for some of my senior management. I signed up for a conference on how to use Second Life for business, and went through some hoops with our IT department to get IT to open up the firewall for me. It did not turn out well. I had a little better luck a few weeks ago when I hosted an event for my student organization on ASTD island, although that event was ill-fated as well.
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Boxes and Arrows
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
I got some great posts for September's version of the Working/Learning Carniva l. I'd hoped to have my own post ready to go by today, but that apparently will not be happening. Between getting myself ready for this week's Leadership Retreat and the Brandon Hall Innovations in Learning Conference next week, plus taking care of all the work that won't get done while I'm gone, I'm in a serious time crunch.
Xplaner
SEPTEMBER 14, 2008
This post is going to be rather free form because I feel like I have so much in my brain that I need to get out. One of the common explanations for the difference of connectivism and constructivism is that constructivism happens in your head, and connectivism happens out in “the network&#. My question was what about people with autism? You have autistic savants that don’t interact with the network, but they are absolute experts in their special interest.
Boxes and Arrows
SEPTEMBER 13, 2008
My older daughter, Jess, left on Monday for her semester abroad in Paris. A few days ago we met in iChat (video!) so she could "show me around her apartment" (i.e., lug her laptop from room to room as she narrated what was on screen) and I could hear about how things are going so far. In hearing her talk about her first experiences living among strangers in a country where they speak a language in which she is not fluent, I could see so many parallels to learning to use social media.
Xplaner
SEPTEMBER 13, 2008
Working on a project proposal (teaching people who are new to networking how to convert binary <–> decimal). Here’s the problem statement for it. Comments welcome! Authored by gminks. Hosted by Edublogs.
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