CCK08: Week 8 The Alchemy of Give and Take

I finished Week 8’s reading with Manuel Castells‘ Afterword in the Demos publication Network Logic (2004). I was trying not to start with the Afterword. I hold Manuel, Stephen and George responsible for my involvement in CCK08. Saving up the Afterword made this week’s readings delightful.
I enjoyed William Dutton’s (2007) paper on the Fifth Estate. [...]

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CCK08: A Moodle Kind of Day!

One of my aims this week was to become involved in the CCK08 Moodle Forums. Stephen’s email alert (04:04:01 PM PDT) enabled me to do that today. I thought I was quick in as the 7th response (05:13 PM) to Stephen’s post.
I have been working at my computer for most of the day and so [...]

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CCK08: Coming to Know

George Siemens has produced this summary of the first six weeks of CCK08 online course (I was alerted to this by OLDaily). I have been sharing the course with many of my colleagues and I am posting George’s video here as an important marker for me in the course.

I have found this course an enormously [...]

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Unpopular Culture

Program 2 of the ABC’s Not Quite Art program was broadcast on Tuesday 21 October.
This is a link to a Creative Commons Australia post about the program.
“This included footage from CCau’s conference and ccSalon in June, interviews with two of our featured commoners, Yunyu and Chris Denaro (don’t miss his exhibition at Metro Arts!), and [...]

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CCK08: Week 7 Affordance, Trialing, Improving…Mashing?

With all our wedding guests departed I have left the garden for a few days!

I have been looking forward to thinking about design and pedagogy.
I started Week 7 CCK08 readings and listenings with Gráinne Conole’s

Social Networks and Learning Design and followed up with her New Schemas for Mapping Pedagogies and Technologies. The key messages for [...]

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