Archive for the ‘rhizomes’ Category
Monday, June 30th, 2008
I sent a skype over to Beth Kanter after having read about the Be the Media project over at her blog.
The Be The Media Project is a community of people from nonprofits who are interested in learning and teaching about how social media strategies and tools can enable nonprofit ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Below is my paper as it appears in Innovate - Journal of Online Education. Many, many thanks to the fine folks there for all their help.
The truths of which the masses now approve are the very truths that the fighters at the outposts held to in the days ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Saturday, October 28th, 2006
There have been some really solid objections coming around to my idea of emergent training communities (see attached paper from NMC poster session). Some people have asked me how communities can ever get started. Others have suggested that a deus ex machina is pretty much necessary in order to get ...
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Thursday, October 12th, 2006
One of the most interesting images you'll see today is Josie Fraser's Leiarth. It's the art that tells the tale of personalization that i think of as one of the core value of what I've been calling 'Emergent Training Communities'. Her separation of the different 'kinds' of personalization and focus ...
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Thursday, October 5th, 2006
I've been thinking about how to design online textbooks that are intrinsically collaborative, can be 'authoratative' where necessary and don't revolve around a central, linear narrative. It's a concept, this lack of linear narrative, that is coming up more and more. People are talking about having websites, groups, communities... all ...
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