“If your dots are not observable/visible/transparent, then it’s impossible to connect them.” Brian Tullis @briantullis The quote is from a really great book I’m reading at the moment – Show Your Work by Jane Bozarth. Reading this book now is really is a case of what I need to hear at a time when I really […]
Curating information becomes a defining factor if you want to be known and respected in social media networks. The ability to cull through “ok” information and really provide valuable content and information to your PLN or social media followers is quickly becoming a valued and sought after skill. If you spend a lot of time on […]
I first heard about the theory of connectivism after reading some posts on a blog called elearnspace.org. Largely curated by George Siemens, the Associate Director of R&D LTC at University of Manitoba, CA. , he also blogs at http://www.connectivism.ca/ He, along with Stephen Downes, who works for the National Research Council of Canada and blogs at http://www.downes.ca/, […]
This week in class we were asked to consider the state of our digital presence and develop ideas and plans that we could implement to improve or expand our digital footprint. There are many things to consider when thinking about crafting an online presence and it gets more complicated if you are hoping to be active […]
I have to laugh every time I try to Google myself. I happen to share a name with a very popular punk rocker from Florida. Her online presence dominates the first page ranking (FPR) of Google and it’s easy to see why. Her video and audio content is delivered on a wide variety of sharing […]
This has been a serious Tweet week so far. Serious in that we have been asked to set up a series of Twitter hashtags and follow them over the course of the remainder of class this summer. I’ve followed hashtags at conferences, but this will be the first time I attempt to follow several hashtags that aren’t […]
The purpose of this Week 1 assignment for EdTech 543 was to create a non-linguistic representation based on my understanding of the three main topic areas – connectivist learning theory, personal learning networks (PLNs) and communities of practice (CoPs). I created this graphic of concentric and overlapping color sections with faint lines spreading out from the center […]
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