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Hi! This is my introductory post for ETMOOC. I’m a doctoral student, instructor, and research assistant based in Regina, SK. Before moving up to the Great White North, I spent four years teaching English in the Baltimore City Public School System. …
Well, orientation week was a bit scary! I listened in and got a sense of wow! I set up my blog, but mixed up the link for the etmooc hub! <sigh> I am sure it will all work out.
I am hoping that a few of the sessions are taped and available for review.…
It’s a new years and a new MOOC. ETMOOC is a ‘Connectivist’ MOOC (‘cMOOC) and just what I’m looking for to bring in 2013.
ETMOOC is designed around a few key principles:
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As you may have noticed from my last entry, I am interested in how virtual knowledge sharing networks—virtual communities of practice—can be fostered and maintained through social media and/or other e-strategies. In organisations, it is proposed this continual sharing and learning helps the firm to remain competitive and able to respond to change.
Enjoyed Sue Waters and Peggy George not only for their expertise but for their honesty during their conversation on blogging.
If you pick up one idea from a book, conversation, event … it is worth it. The introduction to blogging did not let me down.…
This is my introduction for #etmooc in which I use a whole bunch of public domain videos in order to illustrate what I am talking about (sometimes with better results than others).
I’m excited about this course and the people that I will meet and collaborate with as a result.…
So Mending Wall does not present us with a binary choice between the discrete individualism of reductionism and classical logic on the one hand or the undifferentiated unity of holism and mysticism on the other. Rather, the poem presents a third way, a middle way, but not in the Aristotelean sense of a Golden Mean or in the Hegelian sense of a synthesis.…
In the opening session of #etmooc, there was some discussion around why a PLN instead of LMS. There were some interesting points brought up, such as each participant having their own space and their own control. This graphic caught my attention though:
Clearly it is meant to show how PLN is superior to CMS in terms of learning network size. …