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George and Stephen’s course

This is a must.  From two individuals espousing the benefits of networked, connected “Free-range” learning, a thing they call a course.

The course – Connectivism and Connective Knowledge – (the wiki is here) will be delivered fully online with a combination of synchronous and asynchronous interaction. Participants who have enrolled in the course will receive feedback [...]

Facilitatior or Teacher?? (Part One)

The debate still unresolved.
Probably won’t ever be. From Leigh:
As I teach and facilitate various online courses this year, a lot of the theories and concepts I subscribe to are getting some hard testing. The biggest challenge I am finding is the expectation for a teacher or instructor while everyone talks about a facilitator. I don’t [...]

Random Thoughts

ust catching up with some links
The Painted Veil: Movie
A superb movie!! – couldn’t figure out where the title came from, but (from you know where!!) The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. The title is taken from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s sonnet which begins “Lift Not The Painted Veil Which Those Who [...]

Firefox 3: Download day

Tomorrow our time.

1.3 million and counting
The only browser still to have things I am jealous of is Safari.

Edupunk

Not sure what I think about this. The term has surfaced on the TALO list. I didn’t even have a clue really what it was all about. It’s probably pretty much the same as cyberpunk.
“Gibson said it in a short story somewhere. Cyberpunk is the stuff that has EDGE written all [...]

Three posts . . .

Why is it that when I go to blog, I often find several topics ijn my mind at once!!

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