
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Unit 7 Lessons learned, Part 2

After last year, I'm taking my team one week at a time. A great victory over Stanford and bad breaks with the Tar heels. The game against Pitt game is a must win. Go Irish!!!
Stephen Downes, http://www.downes.ca/ mentions in "Free Learning and Control Learning" that “A lot of learning, even traditional learning in the classroom, contains a large social dimension as you interact with the other people in your class”. My traditional thought of learning was read a book, test out and apply what you know. Well, that still happens but with Web 2.0 we enter a new paradigm of learning. We are interconnected in a way that we've never had before. I can list a dozen social/networking sites I wasn't exposed to before and now have signed up and currently trying to make sense of all that is available. Between Chapter 4 of Horton and the Downes assignment, we've become advanced social animals that brings us all into a pack of learners.
Unit 7 Lessons Learned
I almost forgot about this. Give me a week off and look what happens!! I attended my first webinar(for this course) and was very impressed. The topic was " OVERVIEW OF LEARNING 2.0: WHAT'S HOT, WHAT WORKS AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE" by Lance Dublin. My first impression was how busy and intimidating a webinar can be. Between polling chats, and voice, I tried to focus on the topic. It seems other topics were going on in the chat so I tuned that out. Anyway, great overview of Web 2.0 tools and the genesis of web 1.0 and web 2.0. It's Fascinating to think where we are going and how inter generation this is for all!
I enjoyed features within Elluminate. It gave me a very good idea on the style, content and flow for our Wiki webinar.
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