Posts Tagged as ‘CCK08’

November 1, 2008

CCK08: The Role of the Teacher

Alright, so I’m in my Saturday morning yoga class and, doubtless due to the CCK08 influence, my mind wanders to noticing the structure of the class and the role played by my yoga teacher.  This is a class of, roughly, 25 adults, who come together for a 75-minute class once a week.  This instructor (Cheryl) [...]

October 14, 2008

CCK08: Qualities of Connected People

   

Girl Mailing a Letter
Originally uploaded by Smithsonian Institution
After reading Jenny Mackness’s blog entry about her 82-year old mother (loved it), I started thinking more about what human qualities help to insure our connectedness. And are these qualitie that can be nurtured, developed, enhanced? Surely, indentifying the qualities of well-connected people would be step [...]

September 4, 2008

How Connected Am I?

 
79 emails at 6:00 a.m. this morning.  Another 20 by 7:00 a.m.  And then 100 when I checked again at noon. They’re streaming in – ack!  And all of them sporting the tell-tale “CCKO8″ tag.  These are the participants in George Siemen’s and Stephen Downes‘ Connectivism and Connective Knowledge course (CCK).  
The participants (1,000 + [...]