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Capri’s Blue Grotto

Creative Commons License Island Journey Reprise by Ivan Chew is licensed under a Attribution Noncommercial (3.0).

While looking for a background image for my about.me page, I was enjoying my pictures of Italy from the summer of 2011. One of the highlights of the trip was a visit to the Blue Grotto on the island of Capri.…

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Complex and Complicated Theories of Learning

 

The Most Complicated PowerPoint Slide Ever
http://www.presentationmagazine.com/most-complicated-slid-2517.htm

The Lorenz Model is a striking example of how a simple set of non-linear equations can generate complex behaviour.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lorenz.png

It was a delight to participate in tonight’s Blackboard discussion for ETMOOC “Rhizomic Learning: Trying to fit Rhizomes, MOOCs, and Complexity into One Talk” facilitated by Dave Cormier. 

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On Rhizomatic Learning

Rhizomagic

Rhyzomagic Award by guilia.forsythe CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0

Today I attended Dave Cormier’s (@davecormier) #ETMOOC session on ‘Rhizomes, MOOCs and Making Sense of Complexity’ (hopefully the recording should show up here soon).  It was an interesting session and I found myself.…

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Digital Identity: Express Yourself

This week has been  very thought-provoking in week in the #Etmooc adventure. As we are  entering our second week on the topic of “Connected Learning” I have started to see rumblings about identity and a digital presence. (May also have to do with the start-up of #edcmooc).…

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Introduction to ET MOOC

I am excited to be a part of the Educational Technology Mooc. For those of you who don’t know, a MOOC is a massive open on-line course. I have been curious about MOOCs for a while, so when I heard that @courosa was one of the organizers of a MOOC about educational technology, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to try one.…

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Limited Tech: An Issue to Solve #etmooc

I remember when this was my only “good” computer; the rest were old snow iMacs. I started with Apple IIes, moved up to PowerPCs, then the jellybean iMacs and finally to snow and eMacs. There were never enough computers, but I’ve been geeking with students since 1999, thanks to the Bill and Melinda Gates Teacher Leadership Project that year.…

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Warning: Thomas Friedman is an Education Expert Now

I am reluctant to review newspaper articles or op-ed pieces in the same way I have handled journal articles, series chapters or literature from the developers of MOOC platforms.  However, if utilizing a critical theory lens, no discourse can be ignored, especially when it is presented as dominant ideology.  …

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syndicating 5358 posts from 517 #etmooc blogs