This blog post is my keynote address to IACSS09.
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If a new technology extends one or more of our senses outside us into the social world, then new ratios among all of our senses will occur in that particular culture.
When the sense ratios alter in any culture then what had appeared lucid before may suddenly [...]
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#IACSS09
Posted in Australia, CCK08, CCK09, Communication, Community, Digital media, Ethnography, IACSS09, Networks, Open Access, Writing, tagged CCK08, CCK09, Dan Rubinstein, global village, Grevy's zebra, IACSS09, Infoharmoni, Marshall McLuhan, Michael Wesch on 24 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
CCK09: Spring in the Air … and air in my tyres
Posted in CCK08, CCK09, Communication, George Siemens, Networks, Stephen Downes, Teaching and Learning, tagged CCK08, CCK09, Connectivism, George Siemens, Stephen Downes on 15 September, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Last year I was delighted to be involved in CCK08. Without being too dramatic the course transformed my life!
At the time I was working from home thinking about how someone with a fascination for learning might develop in rural Australia. Bandwidth at Mongarlowe is not great but at least I have access to satellite connectivity. [...]
Global Villages, Connection Generation, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Posted in CCK08, Communication, Digital media, Networks, Public Sphere, Twitter, tagged ABC, biocomplexity, CCK08, Classic FM, Connection Generation, Dan Rubinstein, ecology, evolutionary biology, GetaLife, global village, Grevy's zebra, Iggy Pintado, Jelle Marechal, Kate Lundy, Lark Hill Winery, Margaret Throsby, plains zebra, Public Sphere, Radio National, Richard Aedy, super-connected networker, Twitter, University of Canberra on 9 May, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The drive from my home to the University of Canberra gives me the luxury of listening to some great radio programs on Radio National and Classic FM. The journey takes eighty minutes and so by the time I arrive at the University or home on the return journey I have had the opportunity to listen [...]
A Collaborative Paper Idea
Posted in CCK08, Communication, Digital media, Networks, Teaching and Learning, Writing, tagged #L&C09, CCK08, IACSS09, IJCSS on 3 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have posted an idea for a collaborative paper at a conference Ning site
I have six weeks to develop the paper. My aim is to have the paper exemplify the issues raised by the call in special-issue-ijcss-revised.
I thought I would add a Twitter tag #L&C09 to add another dimension to the discussion.
Sitting by the computer [...]
Personal Learning
Posted in CCK08, Digital media, Teaching and Learning, tagged Bob Stein, CCK08, CommentPress, Editis, Gaggle, Gamer Theory, George Siemens, Graham Attwell, Horizon Report 2009, Howard Rheingold, Justin Kistner, Lisa M Lane, Melbourne Writers' Festival, Michele Martin, mindful infotention, Nancy White, Personal Learning, Personal Learning Environment, Personal Web, Public Sphere #3, Ramona Koval, Seth Simonds, Snopes, social media, Steve Wheeler, Tim McCormick, University of Canberra on 29 August, 2009 | 4 Comments »
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I have had a wonderful opportunity to explore personal learning in my new role at the University of Canberra. There are so many colleagues at the University keen to discuss and explore learning and there is a vast array of forums in which to engage. Last week I attended a Gaggle (“an orderly and [...]
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