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creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Maybe it’s the ramp up of Connected Courses but it’s also some upcoming presentations that made my slap my had with a loud “DOH”. I want to create a collection of examples of (and here is where I mumble because I do not know what to call them) how about DS106ish courses– ones using a distributed participation model but also using syndication/push technology to collect or aggregate activity in one place. I know my own examples, all framed around the WordPress / Feed WordPress structure I’ve been deep in since ds106, but also have built out maybe 7 others (and another in the works this week). But others have done this same thing (UMW Abroad has posts back to 2009), in other platforms (all of the cMOOCs Stephen Downes fostered with gRSShopper (Hey Stephen, I thought you had a […]

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Maha Bali project and post about Meta-Mooc Project Proposal for #ccourses allowed me to reflect about many things, my spirits came crazy :) !! Let me start with the primary question: If connected learning experiences have so much potential, why are there so few people benefit from them? What can be done to help them try […]

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Connected Courses begins next week and I have been checking out a few of the blogs to see what others have to say.  I’m impressed (and intimidated).  It looks exciting so I am jumping in.  Although I work in higher education I am not directly involved in teaching; however, whatever I can learn about enhancing the […]

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Joi Ito, MIT Media Lab, on innovating by the seat of your pants.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/science/joichi-ito-innovating-by-the-seat-of-our-pants.html

Key phrase, 'I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.'

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It has been a long time since I posted here. A really long time. Ok, to be fair, most of the Tweets I do every day (yes, every day) are archived here; they just do not appear on the home page. Nevertheless, I have not developed or shared or expressed a...

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I have thought about opening a blog for some time.  I signed up for the Connected Course and that spurred me to create a blog.  For now, I will use this blog for my work in the course, but hope to eventually use it for a broader purpose.

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Hello everyone, I am proud to be participating in Connected via Chico State this Fall semester. My name is Derek Swain and I am currently a third year Grad Student at Chico State, who is working closely with Dr Jaxon on a Thesis concerning the implementation of Augmented Reality Games or Alternative Reality Games in different […]