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GettingStarted2011pp107

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Welcome to  

 

 

What's this going to be about?

"It is only by abandonning all notion of 'getting things clear' that it is possible to progress in this strange eworld :-)"

 - Elizabeth Ann in her profile at http://tinyurl.com/mlit2011edit, January, 2011. 

 

This course is being taught in September 2011 as a TESOL PPOT course, and yet again in January 2012 for EVO.  The course is based more overtly than previously on MOOC precepts, where the M stands not for massive but for miniscule, in an attempt to show that the concept can be adapted successfully on a smaller scale. 

 

In this video where  Howard Reingold interviews George Siemens: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMfipxhT_Co&feature=related., George articulates as no one else can the rationale that I've been trying to communicate to previous participants in this course; e.g. "I’m not aware of any research actually that says linear structure produces better outcomes than more chaotic meandering structure. Our intent, based on our theories of learning is to argue that the experience of learning, making sense of that chaos, is actually the heart of the learning experience, but if an instructor makes sense of that chaos for you and gives you all the readings and sets the full path in place for you then to a degree you are eviscerating the learner’s experience because now you’ve made sense of them and all you’ve told them is walk the path that I’ve formed. When it comes to complexity I’m a great fan of letting learner’s hack their way through that path and getting the value of that learning experience and that sense-making process.”

 

For more on how this relates to this course specifically,
see http://learning2gether.posterous.com/me-portfolios-putting-the-me-in-me-learning-v

 

Why not read a book or two while participating in this session?

 

If you'd like to enjoy a good book we have some suggestions at our Berry Bush Bookstore.

It's not a bookstore really, just a page at this wiki.  But you'll find there some of our suggestions for good ebook reading.  (Tip: Download a pdf and email it to yourself and you can read it on your iPhone.)

 

Here's the recommended list so far.

  • Blogs and Bombs by Mark Pegrum (first chapter available in pdf format)
  • Mediactive by Dan Gillmore
  • The Future of the Internet and How to Stop it by Jonathan Zittrain
  • Knowing Knowledge by George Siemens

 

If you have more suggestions, please leave a comment on the BerryBush Books page.

  

Let's start the session 

 

Please join 

 

 

Our  interaction will take place through Yahoo Group email, twitter, Google+ and Facebook, and comments to each other's blogs and wikis. We can also interact (with almost 700 others) in the EpCoP MOOC.

 

If you don't have Yahoo and Google IDs, get them pleasae: both are free and easy to obtain following the instructions at the respective sites. Please check our tutorials on the sidebar for more information on how to create your Yahoo and Google IDs (You might not be able to collaborate with participants here using Google Docs if you don't have at least a Google ID).

 

How will we communicate?

There are two main communication modes throughout this workshop: asynchronous and synchronous.

 

Synchronous (live, in-real-time sessions)

 

Our regular weekly live online meetings take place Sundays from noon to 14:00 GMT and are announced and archived at http://learning2gether.pbworks.com

 

We have live sessions, with guest speakers or in tandem with other online events, which take place as shown here:

 

Asynchronous (not live or in real time)

 

Here's a summary of online spaces we'll use in this course

 

IMPORTANT:

The time for the sessions will be given in GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). There is a clock with GMT time in the sidebar in the right frame of this wiki for you to check the time now where you are located.  Please learn your time in GMT :-)

 

 

Methodology

 
YOU ARE NOT MEANT TO DO EVERYTHING suggested here.  There are more readings and activities listed than anyone can be expected do and still hold down a job, raise a family, etc. Just do what you can, keep a blog or journal as portal for a Me-Portfolio, TAG your posts evomlit, and let us know where you are writing so that we can add your feed to our readers.  Interact with us in our forums, let us know what you are reading, especially if you find it particularly useful.

If you have questions about the tasks, you are encouraged to post your queries to the YahooGroup, from your own e-mail, or through the POST function of the YahooGroup.  
This course is not a "massively" open online course, but it is run on the MOOC philosophy.  That is, it caters not only to present EVO participants, but also a (somewhat less than) 'massive' cohort who have either taken the course before or are just interested in the topic.  This allows the participants to benefit from a wider network of participants than the relatively smaller group of registrants for the EVO sessions.  This method has worked well in the past.  Normally we achieve a handful of interactants to work with the registered participants in the course.  For more on this philosophy:

 

You can experience a real MOOC  by joining and exploring the EpCoP MOOC which goes through Sept 2011.  This MOOC has a wealth of materials and tips on creating and work with e-portfolios.

 

IMPORTANT URLS for this session:

Check the sidebar

 

Links to tools and activities for the session can be found in our Syllabus

 

IMPORTANT note on TAGGING !!

 

Please tag all artifacts created for this course evomlit  to flag it as 'of general interest'

and evomlit11 to make it pertain to just the Jan-Feb 2011

(using both these tags is best :-)

 

You can tag:

  • Blog and wiki posts
  • Photos posted to Flickr and similar sites
  • Tweets using hash tags i.e. #evomlit and #evomlit11
  • Delicious and Diigo links

 

p.s. a tag is the same as a 'label' or 'category' in some tag systems

 

Here is one place where I articulated the relationships between Massive Open Online Courses and this multiliteracies course, in August 2011: 

 

 

The  video that used to be here can be found via the links below:

 

 

And on this final note:


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This page revised Sept 6, 2011

 

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