How to Thrive Online

By on September 7, 2017

Net Smart by Howard Rheingold 2012

Net Smart by Howard Rheingold 2012

From webmastering to mastering the web

In 2012 my passion was changing from from being a webmaster to mastering the web. 2012 was known as the year of the MOOC and I wanted to learn how to thrive online. I asked my nephew at our holiday gathering for advice. He told me to read “Net Smart” by Howard Rheingold.

First, I searched the internet for free resources. I was so excited (and grateful) by his body of work that when I couldn’t find Net Smart at the library, I bought it.

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Howard Rheingold presents at Microsoft about digital literacies.

Howard Rheingold presents at Microsoft about digital literacies.

Howard Rheingold presents at Microsoft about digital literacies. Click on the image to view the video.
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Open Pedagogy

By on March 13, 2017

Vialogues

I was introduced to using Vialogues by Terry Elliot. Vialogues allow non-synchronous discussion about OER videos.

Vialogues Open Pedagogy

Vialogues Open Pedagogy

Deploy

Joi Ito modified his motto from “Deploy or Die” to simply “Deploy” upon the advice from Barack Obama. This Vialogue is from a Face Book Live broadcast he did with Seth Godin which was archived on You Tube, Medium, SoundCloud and iTunes.

I’ve been observing several communities of practice for years but seldom participate. Creating publicly is scary and hard for me but I’m realizing that I will better master these literacies by practicing them so here is my first vialogue.

Vialogues OPEN pedagogy

Vialogues OPEN pedagogy

Joi: As a designer instead of thinking about other people, think about yourself. Change the rules for yourself. You can invite other people to the party and be happy that they want it, but do it for your own context and take down barriers so people can see it. Change the world by being a positive deviant.

Seth: Play an infinite game (like playing catch with your kid and you both get better) instead of a finite game (a contests with one winner and lots of losers). If enough of us live a life of paying it forward (leaving behind lots of bread crumbs of value – OER) we don’t have to worry about winning.

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Why am I here

By on January 16, 2017

How to thrive online


Howard Rheingold’s book “Net Smart – How to thrive online” convinced me that the best way to learn is to join like-minded others that are co-creating knowledge in that area.

2012 Year of the MOOC


MOOCs became especially popular in 2012. I joined one called OLDSMOOC – Learning Design for a 21st Century Curriculum at the end of that year. My digital literacies took a quantum leap in 2013. My Learning Journal for OLDSMOOC links to dozens of my artifacts created with various tools introduced to me. The connections I made then are still leading me today.

BYOD4L


Mobile devices enable anywhere, anytime learning. Designing learning environments needs to focus on mobile devices. That and my connection to Sheila MacNeill bring me here today.

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MOOC Mentions

By on June 29, 2015

Someone mentioned me!

“I am so excited by the MOOC concept, that if properly designed could scale to world changing proportions”

I can still remember the intense rush I felt, when during my first ever MOOC, I was mentioned by name in the “day 1” review.

MOOCmention-b

I think most people like to be noticed and know that they have been heard.

 

Helen Crump points to my self-reflection contribution at the end of OLDS_MOOC.

I was tickled that my major role model, Helen Crump mentioned my end of MOOC reflection

When Simon Ensor mentions my project proposal post in #rhizo14 it felt like a spot light was shining on me.

When Simon Ensor mentions my project proposal post in #rhizo14 it felt like a spot light was shining on me.

I followed Dave Cormier into a small physics maker MOOC and can now say he "knows my name".

I followed Dave Cormier into a small physics maker MOOC and can now say he “knows my name”.

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My MOOC presentation

By on October 9, 2014

MOOC practice

Learn by doing. I am presenting a slideshow Oct 10 for the Technology Literacy Collaborative in Minnesota (TLC-MN) The slideshow notes can be opened via the options settings.

It starts at 11:30 am, Central Daylight Time (Chicago, GMT-06:30). You can participate live using the WebX platform.

To register for the online event ——————————————————- 1. Go to https://new-webex.webex.com/new-webex/onstage/g.php?MTID=ea9e8ecd70604cb91a631b0fa6123b43a 2. Click “Register”. 3. On the registration form, enter your information and then click “Submit”. Once the host approves your registration, you will receive a confirmation email message with instructions on how to join the event. The event hashtag is #tlc-mn. Would love to see you tweet some comments.

Learn about the World Wide Web

Oct 13, the Connected Courses MOOC unit titled “The World Wide Web – From Concept to Platform to Culture” starts. I hope you check it out.

Objectives:

  • Develop a deeper understanding of the Web: look at history of ideas that gave birth to the web, and the various cultures that have emerged from it, in order to understand the values and aspirations that inform connected learning.
  • Explore the web’s “threshold concepts” by working with case studies: understand concepts and ways of thinking that support web fluency through the exploration of sites over time.
  • Gain fluency in multimodal composing on the web

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Reflection about meme creation

By on June 30, 2014

Meme definition

Meme definition

What is a meme?

Participants during MAKE CYCLE #2 within the Making Learning Connected  MOOC (#CLMOOC) were asked to learn about, make, share, and discuss memes.

I learned about memes shortly after the term was coined in 1976 by Richard Dawkins as “the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation”.

I consider “connected learning” and “learning by making” to be memes that are being transmitted within the CLMOOC (and now by me). I intend to expose dozens of organizations to these memes in hopes of their further transmission.

Art, Ann, & Crasher Squirrel

Art, Ann, & Crasher Squirrel

 Memes and learning

A meme made me learn how to insert images within images. When “Crasher Squirrel” got into a picture shot via wireless shutter release, I decided to join 1000s of others and photoshop it into a similar picture of my wife and me. I did not know how but struggled for hours learning to add layers, resizing, how to remove background and transparency, all so I could get likes and comments on Facebook.

Lebowski selfie meme

Lebowski selfie meme

My “Big Lebowski” meme

Like many other participants, I just did not get many of the memes I saw (unfamiliar cultures). Fortunately I saw a reference to a selfie shot by Jeff Bridges during The Big Lebowski. That movie was made in 1998, way before cellphones had decent cameras. Turns out, ‘The Dude’ has been shooting on-set images of the films he has worked on since 1984“. The “selfie” meme I understood so I used his selfie and the association of being cool and “The Dude” and tied it to posting memes in CLMOOC.

Meme mutation (MeMeme)

Scott Glass explained in his blog Post, My Agency, Meme Style, why he decided to pass on the easy cookie cutter meme generators, and demonstrate creativity, control, resourcefulness, originality, etc. when making his meme. He copied “The Dude’s” selfie, but then almost like the “Crasher Squirrel” pasted himself into a beautiful sun set at the lake scene. This and his reference to #MeMeme inspired me to modify my original meme by putting myself into the Lebowski selfie as if I were the bartender.

Me bartending on The Big Lebowski set

Me bartending on The Big Lebowski set

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CLMOOC Making Learning Connected

By on June 17, 2014

How to be a participant in CLMOOC

5 Steps to Succeed in a MOOC

5 Steps to Succeed in a MOOC

To learn how to be participate in Making Learning Connected, otherwise known as CLMOOC, I recommend this Dave Cormier video, “Success in a MOOC“.

CLMOOC is a community where people can learn how to do or be anything they want to.

One of the goals for CLMOOC is to engage participants in interest-driven, making-centered experiences that embody Connected Learning Principles  and to adopt a collaborative approach and a reflective stance toward the processes of making and learning.

Orient

Learning together implies communicating and in this MOOC involves using social media like Twitter, Google +, blogs, Google Hangouts, and/or Facebook. Check out this link for Guides to Social Tools.

Declare

For Make Cycle #1, we are asked to Make a How to Be, something that introduces who we are. I will do a Make titled “How to Change the World”

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Technology Literacy Collaborative

By on May 9, 2014

Teach the Web

A worldwide collaboration to Teach the Web is happening this summer. Do not worry about joining late. These activities are designed for anyone, anywhere, and at any time, and in any order.

Sign up to enroll and learn creative ways to teach web literacy, digital skills and open practices with fellow educators, technologists and mentors around the world.

 

How to participate join

How to participate

 

Technology Literacy Collaborative

The Technology Literacy Collaborative (TLC) is a community of organizations that care about youth and learning, in particular, learning technology and digital literacy. Digital literacy includes making, sharing, connecting, and collaborating. Perhaps the best way for TLC to better realize their mission is to join with thousands of individuals and hundreds of organizations world wide that are are joining together this summer to learn by making.

Connected Learning

Making Learning Connected (#CLMOOC) is a collaborative, knowledge-building and sharing experience open to anyone interested in making, playing, and learning together about the educational framework known as Connected Learning.

As part of The Summer to Make, Play & Connect, CLMOOC provides educators of all types with an opportunity to play with new tools, make projects and friends, and share projects and reflections with colleagues across the country and around the world.

Maker Party

Maker Party is Mozilla’s global campaign to teach the web. Through thousands of community-run events around the world, Maker Party unites educators, organizations and enthusiastic web users with hands-on learning and making. The Twin Cities communities in Minnesota can enable learning digital literacies by participating.

Mozilla’s Web Literacy white paper

Mozilla understands web literacy to be the skills and competencies required to read, write and participate effectively on the web. Mozilla’s work is underpinned by a philosophy that we learn best through doing and making. Taking a look at this document is well worth the time.  https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/Whitepaper

What is a MOOC?

The topics for TLC’s fall meet up are about using MOOCs, Open Educational Resources, and Digital Badges to better enable practicing digital literacy.

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Learning Design

By on January 28, 2014

Design for Learning

How can I design a learning environment that will best enable learning?

  • Make it real. Choose to do a project that you are personally passionate about, something that will make a difference(change the world).
  • Make or do something. Create artifacts.
  • Self-reflection. Record what your thought, did, would do differently, etc.
  • Network. give/get feedback (buddy up, partner, teamwork)
  • Peer review. Solicit feedback from your peers.
  • Small steps. Break project into small, doable tasks
  • Measure and make visible what you do
  • Make a Map to enable learners to better chart their course
  • Support network. Find mentors, teachers, experienced peers, or role models to give support when you need help.
  • Find Social Networks and a space of your own. Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, Google Plus, WordPress, Blogger, or a personal domain.

 

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Bottlenose new tool for learning

By on January 15, 2014

One trait distinguishing us from most animals is our use of tools. Nova Spivack‘s new tool for visualizing social media trends live (Bottlenose) enables finding and visualizing connection around a topic easier. Check out some of these screen shots I snapped  this morning. I am using the free version found at http://lite.bottlenose.com/.

bottlenose-rhizo14-1

rhizo14-posts rhizo14-tweeters rhizomatic-sonar

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