I discovered blogs while a graduate student taking online courses. Most of my courses required reading a couple of articles on the topic at hand, or sometimes a book or journal article or two. The assignment required responding to the readings, and to support your response it was required that you find at least two [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Personal experiences of blogging
Posted in Class Activities on October 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Do you need a reason to blog? or not?
Posted in Class Activities on October 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I don’t usually respond to lists such as this one but after reading a few I realized it may be helpful to new bloggers to see that they are not the only ones with that overwhelmed feeling about blogs. Yuilus Hamlim offers these survey results forTop 10 reasons why people Blog and don’t, for your [...]
Blogging experiences
Posted in Class Activities on October 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In my experience blog authoring has a direct relationship to blog reading. It is really all about finding information that I need or am interested in. There is no other reason for surfing blogs. As I discover new sources of information that interests me, I subscribe to it through an aggregator. I am learning to [...]
Personal Weblog list
Posted in Class Activities on October 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There are only a few new personal weblog sites that have been sent to me so far, please email me with your address if you get this message. Here are the ones I have heard from:
Chris Kee
http://ck069.aisites.com
Jazmin Cordova
http://jc0676.aisites.com
Erinn
http://eb0617.aisites.com
Andrew Callander
http://ac0639.aisites.com
Stacey
http://sn0611.aisites.com/
Marco
http://mr0641.aisites.com/
Daniel Willyam
http://dw0631.aisites.com/
Litecia Sanchez
http://nls061.aisites.com/wp/
Enrique Espinoza
http://ee067.aisites.com/
Fun(damentals) and Games!
Posted in Class Activities on October 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My favorite blogger colleague, Stephen Downes, provided this wonderful link to a “learning game” – awe heck, it just fun and addictive! Give it a try but not when you are about to get your homework and posting done!
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/launchpad/launchball/
Yes, it really is from a science museum – located in the United Kingdom.
Additions to Fall’07 Blogroll
Posted in Class Activities on October 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The weblog address for Andrew Lewis has be corrected and his blog can now be accessed. Also Josh Diaz has been added. Please review these new blogs and help them get started with some comments this week!
Make an effort to comment to someone you haven’t commented to in the past, work on visiting everyone’s blog [...]
Networks and connections
Posted in Learning things, tagged connectivist, networked on October 13, 2007 | 3 Comments »
From the information age to the connected age: “The Information Age is the age of the knowledge worker. The Connected Age is the age of the web worker. Knowledge workers create and manage information, massaging it into intangible knowledge goods. Web workers create and manage relationships across knowledge goods, hardware, and people”.
This is an interesting [...]
Welcome Fall 07 Class!
Posted in Class Activities on October 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Fall 07 class has started and the bloglinks for the sites that are completed are listed to the right under the “Fall 07″ Category section. The Summer 07 group is also listed as these groups could check each other out and add to the communications! If you name is not on the list and [...]
