Multilitteratus Incognitus
Pondering what to learn next 🤔
Sticking with the fail whale... for now
31-10-2022, 16:24 connected, migration, network, social networks, SocialMedia, twitter A lot of digital ink has been used up in the past few days with Elon's purchase of the big blue bird, both in blogs and Twitter itself, and news outlets (not that I think of it) To be fair, it is a little concerning when your social network changes hands, but then again other things are concerning in the land of social media (where "you're the product"), like most social media ownership,
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Networked Learning you say?
15-05-2017, 03:00 dissertation, education, network, Networked learning, PhD, procrastination, research
Last year, around this time of year, I went on a fun little academic detour. A colleague from overseas (Suzan) invited me to work with her on a conference paper for last year's Networked Learning conference. While we worked on it we came up with the concept of Hybrid Presence which Suzan presented for us (since I could not attend in person) and we worked on an expanded version of the paper
Getting my CALL on!
30-07-2016, 01:30 cMOOC, dissertation, EDDE804, IALLT, MOOC, NERCOMP, network, open learning, Presentation
Εύρηκα! (eureka)
There is nothing like a deadline to get you going - that's all I have to say! A while back, like last January or something, a colleague asked me if I would be interested in presenting at an IALLT webinar on a topic of my choosing - it just had to do with technology and education. I generally don't have a problem with coming up with topic to talk about, but this
So long, farewell, auf viedersehen, adieu! ;-)
16-10-2015, 05:00 communities, CoP, EDDE802, EDDE806, INSDSG, NERCOMP, network, Ning, PhD, research, social, UMass
Well, after a couple of month of not paying the Ning bill UMassID.com is dead! Well, the domain is still fine, @cdetorres got that one for 10 years, but the Ning community that it pointed to is pretty much dead.
So what is was UMassID.com? Well, back in 2008, when I started my MEd in instructional design, the outgoing class was looking for a new president for the student association (GIDA
Why Open?
28-09-2015, 04:00 #vconnecting, #whyopen, blogs, education, network, open, social
The other day I was reading a recent post by Jenny Mackness on questions about being open. Jenny had attended the recent ALT-C conference and was responding to a fellow ALT-C participant's questions on openness. Specifically Viv Rofle ponders:
I’m questioning not just openness by my motives behind wanting to contribute to it.
What motivates academics and teachers to get involved in
Latour: First Source Uncertainty - there are no groups!
12-05-2015, 16:00 #change11, #rhizo14, ANT, book, EDDE802, network, PhD, research, social, theory
Look for traces of the "social"
One of the things I like about Rhizo14, and our collaboration, is that we keep going, exploring our participation, and collaboration post Rhizo14 through a variety of lenses. This keeps the mind active and exploring new areas. I've been meaning to get acquainted with Actor Network Theory (ANT), but the time is rarely right. Classes, work, other projects
How to measure connected success (for academics)
11-02-2015, 04:30 academia, academic, career, connected, network, online, PhD, reputation, twitter
A week or so ago I had read Terry Anderson's blog post asking the question on whether it is worth it for aspiring academics to blog (and tweet, and generally be visible on the interwebs). It's an interesting post and I encourage everyone to read it and post their opinions on twitter, here, on Terry's post. I'd love to know what other newer academics think about this.
I am new, but not new, to academia.
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Apostolos K. ("AK") wrote ...
Brian I agree - the "likes" or even retweets don't necessarily mean that you get any sort of conversion. For this reason I think that there should be a lower weight associated with them - so they are work something (assuming that you don't pay to have the numbers pumped) but you not all likes are the same. I guess the way that I was thinking about it was more about how much your work is echoed out there, and in some way in the consciousness of others (in some way, shape, or form) and less about the actual impact.
2/18/2015, 3:01:00 PMApostolos K. ("AK") wrote ...
I like the idea of evaluating an academic's "influence" (for lack of a more concrete concept) online. That said, these online metrics are fleeting. One thing we find in our business is that using these metrics don't correlate strongly with increased sales. I wouldn't be too fearful of applying that same logic to academia. "Likes" and "faves" don't hold a lot of weight—and mean different things to different people.
Some level of value assigned to posts, relative to published papers, I think there could be something there. And keeping alumni connected is another really interesting idea, and perhaps challenging to measure, as well.
I think the most interesting idea here, though, is I think maintaining an online presence is the new normal for academics. People research online, find colleagues, students search for academic programs online, and base enrollment choices partially upon the academic's they'd be working with. The value of this online presence for the academic and for the institution is only growing.
2/15/2015, 10:04:00 PMSome level of value assigned to posts, relative to published papers, I think there could be something there. And keeping alumni connected is another really interesting idea, and perhaps challenging to measure, as well.
I think the most interesting idea here, though, is I think maintaining an online presence is the new normal for academics. People research online, find colleagues, students search for academic programs online, and base enrollment choices partially upon the academic's they'd be working with. The value of this online presence for the academic and for the institution is only growing.
On Trust
30-09-2014, 17:30 #ccourses, cMOOC, literacy, MOOC, network, trust
Here we are, module 2 of Connected Courses, and the focal topics for these next two weeks are Trust and Network Fluency. This module we have a few webinars to watch, and there are a number of book recommendations. Truthfully I cannot make it through these books, as much as I would love to read some of them at the moment. Too many other things happening to focus meaningfully on them. I guess
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Apostolos K. ("AK") wrote ...
I think you can't dismiss the channel. This will _always_ be eventually compromised. You can trust the people you connect with on Twitter, but only slight changes are needed in the way the service works to start to create friction between people.
Agreed, in "Massive Teaching", this is parts of what I was aiming to explain (introducing the Coursera contracts in the third week), but you can see how channel control was essential to affect where the trust was placed.
In fact, if you look back at your posts, you can see strange variations in your thoughts, depending on whether you rely on your own recollection, PR statements, what you assumed were my own actions, and finally the peer feedback tool that I had set up way before as a draft. This meant you got to see how others experienced the course pretty directly, without relying on other channels, and challenged your own view of the course.
You were after all just one out of thousands of students who watched videos or received announcement emails, and one out of "only" hundreds of students who participated in the forums.
At the moment your posts on "Massive Teaching" show all those different ideas and are full of internal contradictions. Somewhere else you posted that the course was made of RSA videos (which is false, it included one RSA video to show what an RSA video is, something one would miss if they were to solely skim the material).
The irony is that this comment itself could be seen as trolling, now that people have very little trust in me. I hope that what we rebuilt through "Why Open?" can help here. Happy to chat some way or another.
10/1/2014, 4:15:00 AMAgreed, in "Massive Teaching", this is parts of what I was aiming to explain (introducing the Coursera contracts in the third week), but you can see how channel control was essential to affect where the trust was placed.
In fact, if you look back at your posts, you can see strange variations in your thoughts, depending on whether you rely on your own recollection, PR statements, what you assumed were my own actions, and finally the peer feedback tool that I had set up way before as a draft. This meant you got to see how others experienced the course pretty directly, without relying on other channels, and challenged your own view of the course.
You were after all just one out of thousands of students who watched videos or received announcement emails, and one out of "only" hundreds of students who participated in the forums.
At the moment your posts on "Massive Teaching" show all those different ideas and are full of internal contradictions. Somewhere else you posted that the course was made of RSA videos (which is false, it included one RSA video to show what an RSA video is, something one would miss if they were to solely skim the material).
The irony is that this comment itself could be seen as trolling, now that people have very little trust in me. I hope that what we rebuilt through "Why Open?" can help here. Happy to chat some way or another.
Cool tools: Network visualization
27-01-2011, 05:21 CCK11, LAK11, network, social, visualizationThe other day I was reading a CCK11 blog on a way to visualize the connections on your LinkedIn network. Since this week's topic is "the network" on CCK11, I thought it would be cool to see how my network looks. You always get a notification on your social networks indicating who a particular contact has in common with you, but you don't generally get the full picture.
With a few hundred contacts
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Apostolos K. ("AK") wrote ...
I only (really) tend to 2 networks: LinkedIn (for professional purposes) and Facebook (for friends and family). I do have accounts on countless other networks which I update every now and again, but I use those for educational purposes mostly - if I am showing off social networks to a class of undergrads...or faculty for that matter, and their uses of social networks it helps to have more than 2 examples :-)
1/28/2011, 9:23:00 AMApostolos K. ("AK") wrote ...
neat ~ this makes me regret being so lame keeping up with LinkedIn (the least tended of my networks)
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