Tag archives for CCK08

EMC Post-Innovation Conference Tweet-Up

The last two days EMC held its 2nd annual Innovation Conference, right in the Education Services building. I was lucky enough to be given a last-minute invite to the conference. I attended last year’s conference (as a judge, not sure how that happened!), and both times the event has been very energizing and encouraging. You [...]

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The cost of supporting Collaborative Project Spaces

In one of Mike Bogle’s posts the topics of learning ecosystems and “walled gardens” comes up. The main idea I took away from his post is that now it’s so easy to make and access information. While that is a good thing, it brings up the issue of not being able to get to all [...]

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CCK08: Instructional Design, Social Objects

I am going through one of the CCK08 readings for this week, “Cloudworks: social networking for learning design”. (I would reference the author but I can’t find one on the given materials – only clue is the document title conole_ascilite). The paper provided a quote from Engestrom that really struck me: The term ‘social networking’ [...]

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CCK08: There *are* rules to engagement

After  publicly declaring my angst over filters being put in place in the CCK08 class, Stephen Downes pretty much spelled out the rules for engagement in the Daily today when he said: “It is not simply about saying you agree or disagree with the authors and leaving it at that. It is about relating your [...]

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CCK08: How are we conditioned to learn, and more on CCK08 filters

So I am wondering: are there filters being imposed in the CCK08 class? I know I am applying my own filters. I decided early on I would keep up with blog posts and posts from the CCK08 twitter network. I stay away from the Moodle boards because they are very busy, and for at least [...]

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