Been busy

Really busy. Too busy. Heartbreakingly, eyewateringly, soul suckingly busy for the last….month it seems, so #etmooc has been on the backburner with me.

Connections ossify, rhizomes curl up and die, and my own work throws curveballs like a tobacco chewer spits blood.…

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My highly imperfect Digital story

Yarn over, the story posted previously (the cc licence is on that story).

Photo attribuitions

Photo of the smoking man. K. R. B.

Silence Before Storm

Black and White High Rise, Danny Fowler.

Atlanta high rise office

Legs, j_lightning.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/j_lightning/6366885947/

Man in a sharkskin suit, mr-scratch

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr-scratch/4566385995/

Pearle on a womans neck, tenthmusephotography

Pearl Necklace

Emerald necklace, nostri-imago

Emerald Necklace

Black and white room, nfu
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nfu/3952486812/sizes/m/in/photostream/ ROOM

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Yarn Over

This is my idea for the digital storytelling part of #etmooc. It’s a story I wrote in 20 minutes to go with an installation in a gallery near where I live. A murder scene in fact.

Usually, I’d do something more personal, detailing aspects of my life, or self, but this might make me experiment and push boundaries a little more.…

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Ruthlessness, honesty and promiscuity.

I read a quote a while ago, from “Contemporary Perspectives in elearning”. The quote is by  Terry Mayes, Ch6, p84.

“Learning theories are often presented as being alternative accounts of the same phenomena, rather than perfectly compatible accounts of very different phenomena.…

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How to respond to criticism and influence people

This is a post intended to cheerlead. To express appreciation for the example being sdet by the MOOC organisers, and to talk about how that example, in part, has a large determining influence on the MOOC experience. I apologise in advance for any gushing, typos, formatting weirdness, or weirdly wired thoughts.…

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The sense of self, how a MOOC can make or undermine you

Christoph Hewett

Christoph Hewett

I’ve been blogging about the difficulties of Connectivist MOOCing, and about the pluses, and Christoph Hewett’s tweet helped synthesise a clatter of complex thoughts that had been rattling around my head for a few days.

A quick apology

I’ve been thinking about technovice’s and how they might be coping.…

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The online tutor, Thelonius Monk or Simon Rattle.

There’s a nice article here, “Portrait of an Online tutor as Thelonius Monk” by Paul Maharg, that got me thinking about teaching styles, strategies, and dynamics in collaborate. (it’s a good, short clear article, that uses a good metaphoir to describe a looser more collaborative style of teaching).…

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