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Category Archives: #rhizo14
Making conversation
While I love participating in events such as the rhizothings and other connectivist happenings, they can be both overwhelming and isolating at times. Overwhelming because of the sheer volume of content that is being disseminated; isolating because while everybody is sharing with … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, #DigiWriMo, #rhizo14, #rhizo15, Learning, MOOC, Online learning, Peer interaction, Rhizomes
Tagged #clmooc, #DigiWriMo, #rhizo14, #rhizo15, community formation, Connectivism, peer interaction
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The Creative Art of Wittering
witter verb (wittered, wittering) intrans (usually witter on) to talk or mutter ceaselessly and ineffectually. ETYMOLOGY: 19c: probably a variant of whitter to chatter. Chambers Online Dictionary It’s hard to know when rhizomatic learning is appropriate. On the one hand, … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, #rhizo15, Learning, Peer interaction, Rhizomes
Tagged peer interaction, rhizomatic learning
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Penfriends
When I was a teenager I had two pen friends – one in Paris and one in Berlin. I wrote them painfully dull letters in excruciating French and German and received equally dull letters back from them. My heart sank … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, #rhizo14, #rhizo15, MOOC
Tagged #clmooc, #rhizo14, #rhizo15, friendship. penfriends, penpals
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Being vulnerable
I’ve had so much fun over the last 18 or so months. Ever since I happened upon rhizo14 and then discovered other such events I have been making the most wonderful friends. I’m not going to list you all – … Continue reading
Squinting sideways
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:– We murder to dissect. (Wordsworth, The Tables Turned) I often used to feel that doing analytic philosophy was like pulling the legs of a spider … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, #rhizo15, Learning, Rhizomes, Wittgenstein
Tagged #rhizo14, analysis, family resemblance, Wittgenstein, Wordsworth
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Rhizocats
This week we presented at ALT-C, a fairly large (about 500 delegates) annual conference which was held in Manchester this year. Maha has already blogged about us all meeting there, so I won’t repeat that – but I do have … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, Conferences, Learning, MOOC, Online learning, Rhizomes, Social Media, Technology
Tagged #ALTC, #rhizo14, ALT, cMOOC, learning community, rhizomatic learning
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Email for rhizoANT projects
As we’re looking at collaborative tools for an upcoming presentation about rhizo14, Rebecca and AK have both written about their feelings of their experiences with using email. In particular, AK talks about the challenges posed by having multiple email addresses – … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, #rhizo15, ANT, Editing, MOOC, Rhizomes, Technology, Writing
Tagged #rhizo14, ANT, collaborative writing, email, Slack
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Google Docs and ANT
I use Google Docs a lot. It makes it easy for me to find and edit things I am writing no matter which computer I find myself using, and it is also easy to share documents with others and collaborate … Continue reading
