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Who will come to my MOOC party?

Commentary by brainysmurf () on link by jupidu, Who will come to my MOOC party?, May 17, 2012.

Thanks, jupidu! What a great set of questions to reflect upon.

#change11 affected my personal and professional life in many ways. It solidified my belief in self-directed, connected, networked learning as the best way to learn, for me and for many others. I bring these principles into my daily life and work. #change11 reminds me to risk, to explore, to dare, to challenge and to have fun learning.

Like yourself and several others, I participated in all 35 weeks. It wasn't hard at all because I know that I have permission (from the mooc facilitators, participants and from myself) to be more/less active in any given week. That freedom is unique to moocs and I won't settle for anything less now.

Personal highlights:
- learning how to blog (thanks to Giulia, Bon, Jenny and Mark in NZ for the inspiration and thanks to all who viewed over 3000 times, read and commented!)
- guest blogging for my work and for this course (thanks, Liz!)
- finding usefulness in Twitter, HootSuite, FaceBook, Wordle, LinkedIn and Diigo (http://www.diigo.com/user/brainysmurf1234)
- LOVED the presentations by Nancy White and Bon Stewart
- remembering to ask good questions (thanks, Jaap!)
- making time for diverse viewpoints (thanks, AK and John Mak)
- finally making a mindmap for #cck12 (thanks to what I learned in #change11)
- being able to articulate how I make time for social, networked learning
- having a classroom learning experience to compare/contrast with this mooc
- continuing to have access to brilliant minds like Stephen, George, Dave and Clark Quinn
- my interview for Colin's mooc research project (special thanks to Lou!)
- all the laughs and links and drawings and quirky comments we shared in the live sessions (thank you, all!)

In the future, I will always be looking out for excellent moocs that reflect the same practices they preach (not just any open activity that wants to call itself a mooc). I've registered for #fslt12 and can't wait to see what Jenny has in store for us. I'll use #change11 as a tag for as long as I remember to, particularly in my Diigo bookmarks.

My name is brainysmurf and I am a moocaholic. :)
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Re: Who will come to my MOOC party?

jupidu, May 18, 2012
Hi brainysmurf,

interesting answers - and now in the last week of the change mooc I'm trying the forum again (which didn't work for me in autumn because of technical problems..).

I'm curios, if it works now,
bye, jupidu

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