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CCK11 Daily Newsletter

February 11, 2011

Friday Live Online Session

Friday: Live Session: Location: Elluminate - click here to launch Elluminate. Facilitator's discussion. Time:8:00 p.m. Moscow; 5:00 p.m. London; 12 noon New York; 9:00 a.m. Los Angeles; midnight Saturday Beijing. See here for other time zone conversions The session will also be live streamed over internet radio for those using mobile devices or who cannot access Elluminate. The stream URL is http://208.82.115.69:8010/stream.

Facilitator Posts

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New Discussion Threads

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Week 4: concept map iteration 3
Stephen Downes, 1183 - Search results in Emerging Technologies, February 11, 2011.

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I am completely serious about the idea that we all have our own servers at home (or possibly, that we all have our own servers residing on some server farm; the physical location isn't as important as the functionality). There's no reason to believe that this will create a network of people isolated from each other. Our personal servers can act as intermediaries for communication much the way the telephone can (or, for that matter, much the way the postal service did). What's nice about the personal server is that not only can we have direct conversations through one, we can also provide artifacts - messages, audio, video, etc - for people to view when we're not [Comment]

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Networks and Feedback
Stephen Downes, 1224 - Complex Learning, February 11, 2011.

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Totally agreed with the need to discuss feedback. From the connectivism perspective, feedback plays the role of 'back propagation' and is one of the major learning methods (ie., mechanisms for creating, strengthening, weakening or removing connections). [Comment]

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Rhizomes, metaphor utility, constraints
Stephen Downes, 1183 - Search results in Emerging Technologies, February 11, 2011.

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Rhizomes: the problem I have with the rhizome analogy is that a rhizome is a propagation of things that are the same, and not different. That doesn't make it a bad metaphore, but it does, in my mind, make it a very limited network. If the nodes in a rhizome cannot obtain different states, and transmit that state to other nodes, it may have the structure, but not the functionality. Metaphors: to be sure, there are differences between social networks and neural networks, and these differences are interesting. The nodes in social networks can assume much more varied internal states, and therefore, much more complex interaction with other nodes. One of the major points of connectivism, though, is to argue that the knowledge resides in the structure of these interactions, and not in the internal states. Our personal knowledge is not composed of neural electrical potential; social knowledge is not composed of personal knowledge. What is important about connectivism is what is similar .... [Comment]

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Comments

These are individual comments posted today to the discussion threads (for new discussion threads, see the list above).

Stephen Downes, Re: The difference between learning and teaching, > I have suggested that learning can be ....
luisa dall'acqua, Re: The difference between learning and teaching, @ Ken I agree that is interesting that in ....
david_smith, Re: Week 4: concept map iteration 3, Thank you, Stephen, for your response. I think I ....
veronica, Re: The difference between learning and teaching, Hi, Stephen :-) I appreciate very much your ....
Stephen Downes, Re: Rhizomes, > What resides there, if not knowledge? It ....
Ken Anderson, Re: Rhizomes, I wonder if the rhizome is the best metaphor for ....
Ken Anderson, Re: The difference between learning and teaching, >So there is no *activity* that we undertake ....
LeahGrrl, Re: Networks and Feedback, I was going to wonder whether "feedback" wasn'....
Stephen Downes, Re: Dialogues (help!), > This may sound unpleasant but most people are ....
Stephen Downes, Re: The difference between learning and teaching, > I don't think learning and practicing say ....
xiaoxi, Re: The difference between learning and teaching, In Chinses the word "study" is formed by two ....
Ken Anderson, Re: The difference between learning and teaching, I don't think learning and practicing say ....
Ken Anderson, Re: The Nature vs Nurture debate, >This means that learning itself is a much less ....
Scott Johnson, Re: Dialogues (help!), Kevin, Agree there needs to be training for ....
Theodore A. Hoppe, Re: Wednesday Audio Recording, I will share a letter I recently wrote to a ....
Theodore A. Hoppe, Re: Taxonomy of Learning Theories « E-Learning Provocateur, In response to Alicia Parr: Does H. Stephen ....
maurazini, Re: Taxonomy of Learning Theories « E-Learning Provocateur, Ciao a tutti. Sicuramente è molto interessante ....
klwilcoxon, Re: Dialogues (help!), This is an interesting thread! In his own way, ....

Participants' Blog Posts

This is a list of the blog posts mentioning the CCK11 keyword or tag harvested from the list of blogs submitted by participants.
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Teaching Poetry Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat
profesorbaker, Profesorbaker's Blog
“Poetry? Come on Teacher! Please. I’m learning English, poetry is impossible.” Does this sound familiar, this lamentation? I would think so. You see, poetry is absent from our coursebooks. No coursebook writer includes it, for it only confuses the learners … Continue reading → [Link] 2011-02-11T13:11:44 [Comment]

Rabisco #cck11- Conectivismo
T, lúcidaTranslúcida #CCK11
Unir idéias é necessário para entender o todo.Porque no primeiro post relativo a semana 4#cck11,  evoquei  o início do séc. XX?_ As mudanças sociais fervilharam nas primeiras décadas; os anos 20 foram denominados "loucos" já que havia uma efervescência de  um novo posicionamento social, de idéias em vários setores e tendências a romper com a rigidez  do séc. XIX. Porque retorno agora ao texto de G. Siemens - semana 1 #cck11, implicado com a Teoria da .... [Link] 2011-02-11T11:59:00 [Comment]

Teaching Reading and Reading Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat
profesorbaker, Profesorbaker's Blog
Teaching reading is hard work. I am certain that if we took a poll among Teachers of English as a Foreign Language, reading would be number 4 on the list of favorite skills to teach. Here is what my list … Continue reading → [Link] 2011-02-11T04:40:37 [Comment]

Teaching Writing and Writing Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat
profesorbaker, Profesorbaker's Blog
Writing, and the teaching of writing, are two distinct things. I write well enough to express myself, cohesively and coherently, most of the time. I am able to add voice to my writing, nuance, ambiguity, rhyme, rhythm, and when I’m … Continue reading → [Link] 2011-02-11T03:47:20 [Comment]

Rabisco #cck11 "Construtivismo Plural"
T, lúcidaTranslúcida #CCK11
Teorias de Aprendizagem são criadas com a função de predizer, prever ou explicar como ocorre a aprendizagem (em diversas instâncias), apesar destas teorias estarem por vezes dependentes da ideologia de uma época ou da mentalidade em voga. Em continuidade ao post anterior, durante as primeiras décadas do séc. XX, poderemos, a partir deste momento, encontrar diversas formas do Construtivismo. Os chamados  múltiplos campos de atuação.Utilizado em diferentes contextos, mas são .... [Link] 2011-02-10T20:56:00 [Comment]

Networks and Feedback
Graeme Ferris, Complex Learning
Over the last two or three weeks we have had a lot of discussion about networks and how Connectivism is really focused on how learning takes place across these networks. One thing that hasn't really been discussed is the notion of feedback loops in relation to networks and I believe that understanding feedback mechanisms are crucial to understanding how networks develop and evolve. So what is a feedback loop? Feedback loops occur when information or an event in a system makes a change to .... [Link] 2011-02-10T19:15:00 [Comment]

Week 4: concept map iteration 3
EML Tech, Search results in Emerging Technologies
So this is only the second "published" version of my concept map for the course, though there was an iteration in between:My current interest in the role of constraints has made it in, I also added the rhizome, and want to explore further if it is consistent with the network metaphor. I removed the orangeness of ideology, since obviously Connectivism has an ideological axe to grind; just like behaviourism, humanist learning theories, evolutionary biology, particle physic, etc. They .... [Link] 2011-02-10T16:43:53 [Comment]

Twitter Posts

If you use the CCK11 tag on Twitter, your Twitter posts will be collected and listed here (note that harvesting only started Friday morning).

@JGChesney (Jennifer G. Chesney) tweeted: Brilliant, fantastic post! RT @profesortbaker: Teaching Poetry Well: The Connectivism Way #edchat #CCK11 #ELTchat: http://t.co/a4hmGx0 2011-02-11T16:01:50

@profesortbaker (Thomas Baker) tweeted: Teaching Poetry Well: The Connectivism Way #education #edchat #ukedchat #elearning #esl #TESOL #CCK11 #ELTchat: http://t.co/a4hmGx0 2011-02-11T15:25:49

@web20education (Lucian teach Web 20 ) tweeted: New #Facebook feature Instant Personalization #edtech20 #edchat #CCK11 #elt #efl via @scoopit http://bit.ly/h4VeSW 2011-02-11T15:21:45

@thbeth (thbeth) tweeted: #cck11 Mass-media and culture sec XX http://youtu.be/FYttAkPf3XE 2011-02-11T14:59:33

@web20education (Lucian teach Web 20 ) tweeted: RT @profesorbaker: Teaching Poetry Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat http://nblo.gs/e9F0h 2011-02-11T14:30:50

@smoky_stu (Stuart) tweeted: Read The smoky_stu Daily on http://t.co/3WiA1ln #edtech #edchat #yam #cck11 #education #teachers 2011-02-11T14:17:18

@profesortbaker (Thomas Baker) tweeted: Teaching Poetry Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat http://wp.me/pdHW0-kK 2011-02-11T13:11:47

@profesortbaker (Thomas Baker) tweeted: Teaching Poetry Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat http://nblo.gs/e9F0h 2011-02-11T13:11:47

@ShellTerrell (Shelly S Terrell) tweeted: via @profesortbaker Teaching Poetry Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat http://bit.ly/feel2b #edchat 2011-02-11T13:11:47

@Blog4Edu (Greta Shelly) tweeted: via @profesortbaker Teaching Poetry Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat http://bit.ly/feel2b #edchat 2011-02-11T13:11:47

@suifaijohnmak (suifaijohnmak) tweeted: RT @zaidlearn: Crash Course - Social Media & Web 2.0 for Learning http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2011/02/crash-course-social-media-web-20-for.html #CCK11 2011-02-11T12:55:04

@CCK11Feeds (CCK11 Feeds) tweeted: Teaching Reading and Reading Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat: Teaching reading is hard work. I am cer... http://bit.ly/ighr9D 2011-02-11T12:42:24

@CCK11Feeds (CCK11 Feeds) tweeted: Teaching Writing and Writing Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat: Writing, and the teaching of writing, a... http://bit.ly/hIHmWO 2011-02-11T12:42:24

@CCK11Feeds (CCK11 Feeds) tweeted: Rabisco #cck11 "Construtivismo Plural": Teorias de Aprendizagem são criadas com a função de predizer, prever ou ... http://bit.ly/ge9jiT 2011-02-11T12:42:24

@DaisyGrisolia (Daisy Grisolia) tweeted: RT @pgsimoes: #elearning Five Critical Competencies for Teaching Online http://dlvr.it/GKqkS (@facultyfocus) #eadsunday #cck11 #inovareduca 2011-02-11T12:30:32

@CCK11Feeds (CCK11 Feeds) tweeted: Teaching Reading and Reading Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat: Teaching reading is hard work. I am cer... http://bit.ly/hQ1eh1 2011-02-11T12:17:31

@thbeth (thbeth) tweeted: #cck11 Conectivismo semana 4 http://migre.me/3ReW1 2011-02-11T12:01:46

@zaidlearn (Zaid Ali Alsagoff) tweeted: Crash Course - Social Media & Web 2.0 for Learning http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2011/02/crash-course-social-media-web-20-for.html #CCK11 2011-02-11T11:53:48

@jgmac1106 (Greg McVerry) tweeted: Not sure if I buy into connectivism as a theory of learning. Trying to decide what it offers over different situated and sociocultural lrng 2011-02-11T13:40:07

@luciavalle (Lucia Valle) tweeted: RT @profesorbaker: Teaching Poetry Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat http://nblo.gs/e9F0h 2011-02-11T13:13:38

@profesorbaker (Thomas Baker) tweeted: Teaching Poetry Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat http://nblo.gs/e9F0h 2011-02-11T13:11:47

@suifaijohnmak (suifaijohnmak) tweeted: Check this video 3 Idiots-Blu-Ray [HD] Part 3 of 16 W Eng Subs.flv http://t.co/rW0ayPB via @youtube Here is one with Eng Subtitle #CCK11 2011-02-11T10:57:24

@suifaijohnmak (suifaijohnmak) tweeted: Check this video out -- 3 Idiots-Blu-Ray [HD] Part 4 of 16 W Eng Subs.flv http://t.co/iR1tu9q via @youtube #CCK11 Here is one with Eng Subt 2011-02-11T10:36:24

@suifaijohnmak (suifaijohnmak) tweeted: #CCK11 Check this video out -- 看了这三分钟，你会有一股冲动，那就是："愿所有的老师都要看！" http://t.co/6x7BKgY via @youtube A must watch for every teacher (subtitled) 2011-02-11T10:10:35

@amcunningham (AnneMarie Cunningham) tweeted: @SarahStewart also listen to Selwyn's presentation for #cck11 - can be benefits in formal curriculum 2011-02-11T10:09:50

@pipcleaves (Phillippa Cleaves) tweeted: #cck11 Mooc is out! http://bit.ly/g0AhRY ▸ Top stories today via @sharonzspace @newfacmajority 2011-02-11T09:14:21

@fionamau (Fiona Mauchline) tweeted: RT @ShellTerrell: via @profesortbaker Teaching Reading and Reading Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat http://bit.ly/gKCHaD #edchat 2011-02-11T08:50:43

@fredgarnett (Fred Garnett) tweeted: RT @lion_ness: Teaching Reading and Reading Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat: http://t.co/WMFwFsl <more questions than answers :) 2011-02-11T08:49:39

@fredgarnett (Fred Garnett) tweeted: @gsiemens Worries me if new tech peeps only see the new. Is this true? LGC have Ecology of Res Open Context & PAH not based on tech #cck11 2011-02-11T08:30:06

@bsmsenglish (Björn Sauerhammer) tweeted: RT @ShellTerrell: via @profesortbaker Teaching Reading and Reading Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat http://bit.ly/gKCHaD #edchat 2011-02-11T08:15:28

@fredgarnett (Fred Garnett) tweeted: @cristinacost Other than dont get carried away with new tech (do #cck11 people?) what did he say? Assertions. We dont use tech in OCM & PAH 2011-02-11T08:13:23

@lion_ness (Larisa Dubova) tweeted: Teaching Reading and Reading Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat: http://t.co/WMFwFsl 2011-02-11T06:03:56

@profesortbaker (Thomas Baker) tweeted: Teaching Reading and Reading Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat http://nblo.gs/e8Syr 2011-02-11T04:41:40

@profesorbaker (Thomas Baker) tweeted: Teaching Reading and Reading Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat http://nblo.gs/e8Syr 2011-02-11T04:41:18

@profesortbaker (Thomas Baker) tweeted: Teaching Reading and Reading Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat http://wp.me/pdHW0-km 2011-02-11T04:41:09

@Blog4Edu (Greta Shelly) tweeted: via @profesortbaker Teaching Reading and Reading Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat http://bit.ly/gKCHaD #edchat 2011-02-11T04:41:08

@ShellTerrell (Shelly S Terrell) tweeted: via @profesortbaker Teaching Reading and Reading Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat http://bit.ly/gKCHaD #edchat 2011-02-11T04:41:08

@CCK11Feeds (CCK11 Feeds) tweeted: RT @profesortbaker: Teaching Writing and Writing Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat http://nblo.gs/e8MtS... http://bit.ly/hq1Bm2 2011-02-11T04:32:30

@CCK11Feeds (CCK11 Feeds) tweeted: Teaching Writing and Writing Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat http://nblo.gs/e8MtS: Teaching Writing a... http://bit.ly/g336k3 2011-02-11T04:32:30

@CCK11Feeds (CCK11 Feeds) tweeted: Teaching Writing and Writing Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat http://nblo.gs/e8MtS: Teaching Writing a... http://bit.ly/g3knmo 2011-02-11T04:32:30

@CCK11Feeds (CCK11 Feeds) tweeted: Teaching Writing and Writing Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat http://wp.me/pdHW0-ko: Teaching Writing ... http://bit.ly/fgOQnU 2011-02-11T04:32:30

@CCK11Feeds (CCK11 Feeds) tweeted: via @profesortbaker Teaching Writing and Writing Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat http://bit.ly/hjcvwz... http://bit.ly/gBwCcZ 2011-02-11T04:32:29

@EveWeb (Evelyn Izquierdo) tweeted: RT @profesortbaker: Teaching Writing and Writing Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat http://nblo.gs/e8MtS 2011-02-11T03:47:54

@profesortbaker (Thomas Baker) tweeted: Teaching Writing and Writing Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat http://nblo.gs/e8MtS 2011-02-11T03:47:39

@profesorbaker (Thomas Baker) tweeted: Teaching Writing and Writing Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat http://nblo.gs/e8MtS 2011-02-11T03:47:36

@profesortbaker (Thomas Baker) tweeted: Teaching Writing and Writing Well: The Connectivism Way #CCK11 #ELTchat http://wp.me/pdHW0-ko 2011-02-11T03:47:32

@SocialGardens (Therese Weel) tweeted: #cck11 - Could someone tweet a working link to the CCK11 feed ..... please and thanks! 2011-02-11T00:11:53

@SocialGardens (Therese Weel) tweeted: #cck11 Getting 500 server error when reading CCK11 posts on google reader this feed --> http://cck11.mooc.ca/dailyblogs.xml 2011-02-11T00:09:55

@amcunningham (AnneMarie Cunningham) tweeted: RT @cristinacost: listening to Recording from Neil #Selwyn's presentation on social media and education: http://bit.ly/fjbKVi #cck11 2011-02-10T23:34:31

@cck11 (Cory Kloth) tweeted: "In Jesus Christ God has bound Himself to us and bound us to Himself before ever we have bound ourselves to Him."- Karl Barth, CD 2/2 2011-02-10T23:31:40