Category: Blog

As the Catawompus Cousins have so eloquently put it, we are constantly asked to judge the media in front of us and make calls about who is "in" or "out" of our networks. We do this with books, blog posts, and even tools for learning. If you don’t know about these things or don’t agree with them, you will be ostracized. How about we stop doing that. What if we started looking at these people for the value they can provide rather than what they already know and have been exposed to.

Thanks to the Catawompus Cousins for the inspiration: http://youtu.be/Wciv–Vo_iQ

Reflective Practice Vlogging Community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116395158372553895482

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I would love to develop a list of creative, generative constraints for learning. Please comment to add your ideas to this list.

Inspired by Brendan Murphy: http://youtu.be/pFJQ19WtPIk

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I believe for us to transform the ways in which we teach and learn, we cannot be self-conscious about the ways in which we express that learning. Dew2Circumstances has some advice for first time vloggers and creators, that I think is essential: Own the four walls of your videos. You can be and do whatever you want within them.

Dew2Circumstances’ Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Dew2Circumstances

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As good as we have gotten at aggregating all of our content into readers and websites (portals and hubs), we still have a terrible time aggregating conversation and comments. I think we need to fix this.

Here are some promising starts:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/genki-youtube-comments/

http://www.livefyre.com/

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One of the best parts about learning in a community, is when you let the community affect your understanding. I let Phill Macoun and Darren Kuropatwa help my understanding of the role of the teacher in a MOOC and other connected learning environments. The result was to suggest that we allow 5 curators to create paths for us through ETMOOC. They could act as mentors and help us see what there is to see.

Original video from Phil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWbXrcSPaXQ

Original video from Darren: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is5Ea8DNd9M

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This is the unofficial theme song for #etmooc and Personal Learning Neighborhoods everywhere. Here are the lyrics, which are sung in unison by Gallit Zvi and Ben Wilkoff:

It’s a beautiful day for an #etmooc,
A beautiful day for some learning,
Would you connect?
Could you connect?

In my personal learning neighbourhood,
We blog, and we vlog and reflect what’s good
Would you comment?
Could you comment?

I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you,
Always wanted to take this learning path along with you

So let’s make the most of this beautiful day,
Let’s tweet and lets chat, in a backchannel way,
Would you move in?
Could you my friend?
Won’t you be my neighbor?

Won’t you post,
Won’t you link,
Please won’t you be my neighbor?

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Even though our learning paths are all different and we need different things to help us along the way, our most visible (and sometimes powerful) learning happens when our paths cross and we are able to recognize and articulate what is happening.

Inspired by Lee Graham: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpRBTsIVLtM and Scott Hazeu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0v00LO-Wik

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I have had the pleasure of learning from Sheri Edwards over the past few weeks, and I have grown to love her approach to learning. It makes me think that our learning has a lot of meaning and importance. It also makes me want to believe in the power of poetry.

Her Vimeo Channel: https://vimeo.com/sheri/

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I love the learning path that Scott Hazeu laid out in his vlog for #etmooc. It made me think about just how cyclical learning is and how we should be able to emphasize that cycle in our teaching and leadership.

Link to the original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyV4xRWP8Yg

Link to the Reflective Practice Vlogging Community: https://plus.google.com/communities/116395158372553895482

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