One of the challenges of my position in the district where I work has been how to “teach” others about social networking, how do you convey the benefits of virtual personal learning communities / networks, in a 3 hour workshop? How do you cover all the options, explore all the tools available to assist in [...]
Archive for December, 2008
As Confidence Builds
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged collaboration, educators, learning, njplp21, web 2.0 on December 30, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The Networked Student
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 21st century, learning, networkedlearning, teaching on December 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Wendy Drexler created this video as a final project of the course she took on Connectivism at the University of Manitoba taught by George Siemens. I have linked to the post Wendy wrote about the video, please take a moment to read the post, and watch the video. Great job Wendy, I am definitely going [...]
Network Literacy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged learning, literacy, networks on December 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I believe there is a new literacy for networks. In education our definition of being literate has been determined by the ability to read and write in a linear, focused, sustained manner and success in life is predicated in how well one mastered these tasks. Today we have a culture of participatory learning emerging [...]

