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I’ve been reading a bit lately about collaborative autoethnography (and it’s quite what I expected it to be). Mainly this article (Geist-Martin et al) and this book (Chang et al), though I also have plans to read this open access book … Continue reading →

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I begin the connecting in earnest tomorrow.  

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  Episode 7 starts out with another parallel. The opening scene discusses the coded message from the wiretap, then the epigraph at the end of the credit sequence reads, “A man must have a code.” Bunk says the line in … Continue reading →

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Thanks to the wonderful Maha Bali, I was pointed towards a really nice initiative that allows everyone with an interest to learn how to set up, facilitate and experience an online, connected course (cfr connected-MOOCs). This initiative is called the Connected Courses Initiative, and will introduce active co-learning in higher ed. There is a wonderful bunch of intelligent, kind and creative people at the helm (look at that awesome list of online learning gurus! - I mean the list is simply mind baffling!), all with loads of experience and insight in the matter, so this looks like an exceptional chance to deepen, strengthen or simply explore the idea and the actions related to connected learning. 

There is an introduction on the 2nd of September, and the first (online and free) unit starts on 15 September 2014... it looks like fun. 

The course runs from September to December 2014 and has 6 units all focusing on another - very well tested - online connected learning feature.  

Some words of the organisers (with useful links):
We invite you to participate in a free open online learning experience designed to get you ready to teach open, connected courses no matter what kind of institution you’re working in. We’ll explore how openness and collaboration can improve your practice and help you develop new, open approaches.
You can mix and match — take one unit or take them all, and go at your own pace. You’ll be joined by other participants from around the world who are looking to:
  • get hands-on with the tools of openness;
  • create open educational resources, curriculum and teaching activities and get feedback from a community of your peers; and
  • connect with and learn alongside other faculty, educators and technologists.
Sign up and receive updates from the organizers. Everyone is welcome, and no experience is required. We will all learn together in this free and fun opportunity to start planning your own connected course. The instructors, award-winning university professors from around the globe, are the innovative educators behind successful connected courses such as FemTechNet, ds106, phonar, and the National Writing Project CLMOOC.
An orientation starts Sept. 2 and the first unit starts Sept. 15, 2014 and you can sign up and find more details about the topics we’ll be exploring at connectedcourses.net.
When I read this options, I immediately looked at all the units and though: I must register at once!
Blatantly copying from the core website for immediate reading:

9/2-9/14 Pre-Course: Move in, Registration, Orientation

12/1-12/14 Unit 6: Putting it all into practice. Planning the connected course

Facilitators: Jim Groom, Lisa M. Lane, Jaime Hannans, Jaimie Hoffman, Mikhail Gershovich, Alan Levine

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Connecting to “customers” means attending to “customers”.  And by “customers” I mean any folk you relate to and connect with. You curate for them by all means reasonable and ethical.  The lesson for me in this Ars Technica post by Sam Machkovech is that whoever you are and whatever you do, you are a magnificent and unique […]

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Connecting to “customers” means attending to “customers”.  And by “customers” I mean any folk you relate to and connect with. You curate for them by all means reasonable and ethical.  The lesson for me in this Ars Technica post by Sam Machkovech is that whoever you are and whatever you do, you are a magnificent and unique […]

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ADHD: Artistic Demons Hard at Drawing

What are the prospects of using graffiti as the foundation of a transnational cultural academy?

By graffiti I don’t mean just anything inscribed on walls. I mean something more specific, the aerosol art that started in Philadelphia and New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s and that had gone world-wide by the end of the century. It’s the first form of abstract art to reach a mass audience.

As vandalism, it exists on the borders of existing art culture.

It is nowhere and everywhere.

It is the future.
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