Archive for February, 2008

Rhizomatic Knowledge Communities –> Edtechtalk, Webcast Academy

Friday, February 29th, 2008

The idea of a rhizomatic knowledge community draws on a strong current tradition of random ideas and solid scholarship. There is a sense in which we all understand the way that these types of things come together... certainly every time i hear George Siemens talk about network theory and connectivism, ...

Opensim in education (with alpha software)- lessons learned

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

just some quick notes... so i don't forget them. More will get posted at openhabitat. Well... for those of you following, the second run at it went MUCH better than the first one. We rejigged our plan, forwarded our initial goals to the front end, used a little more scaffolding, ...

Our first run at getting the students in Opensim

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Well... well well well. What we wanted to do was get a bunch of students to come into our computer lab, sit at a computer in pairs, wander around opensim, take their photo from their blog post and post it into a picture frame. That was the bottom line. Simple quest ...

Living Archives and Opensim - Virtual PEI curriculum beta.

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Well folks, tomorrow morning is a big day. I started writing the grant on this in the summer of 2006, have had piles and piles of help along the way and have now come down to it. We've got a website, we've got some great content researched and written by ...

Rhizomes and Blogging - public/private groupwork and the establishment of trusted nodes.

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

This is some draft thinking that is behind the post from yesterday. I've tried to think of any number of ways to turn this into something... but, in the hopes of getting somewhere with it... i figured i would just post it for uz to look at. Blogging, or the combination ...

Creating a Rhizomatic knowledge node on a website

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

This is another attempt at showing what a rhizomatic build would look like. It fits in with an article I'm currently writing and a discussion paper that is dying in the draft section of this blog. I'm looking for feedback on this, so I do hope some of you will ...