@timbuckteeth (aka Steve Wheeler) tweeted his Twitter grade today (and beat me to a blog post that I got to know about via Twitter while writing this one here). It was at 67. In his blog post, Steve brings up examples of edubloggers that score much higher or are not found at all for no [...]
Posts under ‘CCK08’
It’s the end of week 1 as I see it
The first week of the MOOC CCK08 (these abbreviations are already ingrained in my brain) is almost over. I still have a lot of work to do, but have to interrupt it after this post to prepare some stuff for work. Unfortunately, I cannot devote my entire waking hours to the course which I think [...]
Elluminate me
A crowd of approx. 82 participants of the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge course, commonly known as CCK08, just met in a synchronous online session in Elluminate. It was quite an experience for me as that was my first live session in Elluminate. Previously, I was only able to watch recorded sessions of webinars.
Participating in this [...]
What is the role of the quality of connections?
Over the weekend I read “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy” by Clive Thompson in the online edition of the New York Times Magazine. The article deals with the value we gain or think to gain from social networking services such as Facebook and Twitter as well as explores whether we have become more social [...]
YAP for the MOOC CCK08
I love abbreviations. They allow to say a very long title etc. in just a few seconds. The heading in full reads as follows:
Yet Another Participant for the Massive Open Online Course “Connectivism and Connective Knowledge 2008”
Fellow participants of the course know what will follow in the next lines: my introduction. As there are over [...]
