Deze week heb ik me aangemeld voor een cursus van Coursera: E-learning and Digital Cultures. This course will explore how digital cultures and learning cultures connect, and what this means for e-learning theory and practice. Follow this course at #edcmooc. Continue reading →

I’m impressed and somewhat overwhelmed by the amount of social networking going on before #edcmooc has even started. It’s hard to know where the activity is going to happen most but I guess I’ll just join the lot and all will settle down or ramp up as the weeks unfold. I’ve yet to discover a thread of activity that’s sparking my interest as most posts are much like this first one of mine – administrative reflection and questions about where and what and how. Continue reading →

Here, there is a list of the blogs from the rest of students of this course. You can look through them!

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I have been watching the  video Bendito Machine III on YouTube  about a man who received a machine as gift on the top of a mountain. The gift shows to be a TV and the population in the film admires the machine as some kind of God, a religion. They immediately get rid of the old Golden Bull that was seen as their God. Continue reading →

I listened to an interview with Greg Whitby (author of Educating Gen Wi-Fi) this morning on Australian ABC Radio speak about the need for educators to “rethink everything they have been taught, including their own role as the sole authority…….no longer a wrong or right way to learn, no longer a single model of teaching, not even a familiar classroom environment“

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Here are some notes, links, conversations, thoughts, and reflections on the first week of the University of Edinburgh / Cousera ‘eLearning and Digital Cultures’ MOOC. This reflection will form part of the work required by the MOOC as well as reflections on the processes and Coursera system itself.

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Inbox is the third film I have watched for the E-Learning and Digital Cultures MOOC #edcmooc

This week has been quite interesting. Lots of amazing topics brought back to me that I have been thinking or discussing with my friends or colleagues in past months – or maybe years.

And of course, the #edcmooc has started and it is the week1 first post. Continue reading →

The final film I have viewed for Week 1 of #edcmooc is Thursday.

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I really like this film, not sure why since at first it seemd so bleak and definitely “end of the world-ish”.  Reminiscent of H G Wells’ War of the Worlds “walkers”, that lumber ominously across desolate landscape, these giant metal structures/creatures float in the sky like giant jellyfish. Continue reading →

On a re-read just seems to underline my decidedly scatty attention span…

Just trying out an application suggested in a tweet – still needs a lot of work but looks like it could be an interesting tool to use….

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It is day one of EDCMOOC and there is so much to see and do. With more than 260,000 participants it is hard to comprehend how such a large course could function. Continue reading →

Our first film to watch is Bendito Machine III. Now those of you who know me will know that this type of animation doesn’t really appeal to me. Continue reading →

I just watched the short film Bendito Machine III as part of #edcmooc .

I am not going to write an essay, but I will address the questions that have been put to us to consider.
I purposefully have not researched the background of the film, so as to not sway my thinking. Continue reading →

Just watched this quirky film as part of #EDCMOOC. It starts off slow but hang in there it gets better and the message will soon become clear. Continue reading →

I decided to watch New Media second in the film festival for Week 1 of #edcmooc.

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” —Mahatma Gandhi

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There is a lot of talk in the #edcmooc of us being addicted to technology.

So begins week one of the EDC course. I’m in the middle of designing a short presentation to other Digital Immigrants about Integrating digital and web technology into their traditional classrooms. I need to read the Week 1 course notes on Utopia and Dystopia and start reflecting… Continue reading →

#edcmooc Inbox – Short Film

Can you really get to know someone online? This is a question that arises often. Continue reading →

After watching the previous video I was wondering what the research said about the use of emoticons, which are clearly the secondary language of chat. We use them to infuse some tone and personality into our messages since those aspects are lacking from purely written communications that are intended to replicate dialog. But do they really influence the reader? Continue reading →

Spoiler Alert – #EDCMOOC people if you havent seen this weeks films you should probably not read this yet – go watch the films, they are fun, will take you 20 minutes, then come back here

The film Bendito Machine III has a strong sense of technological determinism about it, the technology is clearly seen as the dominant or defining force in the lives of the characters. Continue reading →

There’s currently a lot of “strong” technological determinism in education – telling us that facebook and ‘academic twitter’, google docs, tumblr, flikr, mahara or ‘the latest thing’ are the way we ‘must’ Teach and Learn, telling us that technology is “The Way”, rather than “a way”. Many academics are bemoaning poor technological uptake amongst their peers, resistance to change, or give out about ‘people not using the software to its full potential’. In reality, most humans are already conducting what MIT’s Peter Lunenfeld calls ‘Info Triage’ – in an attempt to manage precious time, live human lives and protect their fragile brains against infodump overload. Continue reading →

The learner experience within the MOOC is rather like waking up in a learning storm. It’s a threatening, cacophonous, attention-grabbing, clattering synchronous space, very different to our notions of a ‘conventional’ learning space, even a ‘conventional e-learning space’. This is more like ‘academic facebook/discussion boards/twitter’ – all at the same time. Continue reading →

I’ve been reading the core assigned article for this week’s #edcmooc,Technological or Media Determinism by Daniel Chandler and, buzzword bingo aside, found it quite interesting.

The article is looking into the theory set of ‘determinism’ – technological, media, linguistic, and a couple of others thrown in for good luck and a bit of illustration. Continue reading →

I am really looking forward to E-learning and Digital Cultures, my first Coursera course from the University of Edinburgh!

I know I will learn a lot from others around the world, and I will be blogging here about my experiences in this new MOOC cyberworld. Continue reading →

I love new things and I am characteristically looking toward the future (as my last post would indicate),  so my journey this week through old websites of mine through the Wayback Machine was very unusual.  This all began when I started thinking about “my place in cyberspace” while preparing for blogging about my experiences in E-learning and Digital Cultures.

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What better way to spend a Saturday night? 

Between 9:30 and 10:30, the first twitter chat took place for #edcmooc participants. Continue reading →

This month has been extremly busy for me. I am very conscious that the #edcmooc starts on Monday (28th) and of the need to keep up to date with what is happening.

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Digital Culture is like one of those Wheres Wally? drawings. There is so much going on. Continue reading →

Finally… oh wait, no, it has not started officially yet. But it is officially announced that #edcmooc will start later tonight. Continue reading →

Nitty gritty time!  I started this morning at 7.30am with a list of SIX things I needed to do before school starts tomorrow. Continue reading →

Well, after watching all four videos, it got me thinking about other ways that technology is portrayed in films, television, and books.  I can think of two dystopian titles right now, but I might add more as they come to me.

The Matrix Films

 Dystopian

Now this one is kind of a gimme. Continue reading →

Shiny things

So, I have finally started! Just read through all the course information and had a moment of rising panic as the Tweets rolled round to the left of the page as I tried to concentrate! Continue reading →

So, I just looked at my Coursera site for E-Learning and Digital Technology #Edcmooc and I am feeling totally overwhelmed but really impressed. I wanted to get a few initial thoughts and impressions down before I start the readings and videos.

First, I can’t help compare this to our Blackboard courses at my institution and it makes the Blackboard experience look so sad. Continue reading →

My two Coursera MOOCs from the University of Edinburgh, Introduction to Philosophy and E-Learning and Digital Cultures, are now open, and they are BOTH fascinating.

I never intended to sign up for two courses at the same time, but I was simply unable to choose once I had read the course descriptions. Continue reading →

What people often learn about me is that in person and online, I tend to be a very shy person, despite the fact that a lot of my interests kind of put me “out there” such as blog writing and teaching.  For some reason I feel comfortable addressing a large audience, but when it comes to one on one interaction I sometimes have problems making connections because I want to shrink into myself and just hide.

The chat was not much different, except that I was probably a little more active than I usually am in these things. Continue reading →

Back in summer I signed up to participate in a MOOC – Massive Open Online Course via Coursera (www.coursera.org) in “E-Learning and Digital Culture” (https://www. Continue reading →

Global warming candle for Earth Hour

Very clever, the course is meant to start at the end of January, and here we all are, engaged and establishing our online community more than two months before we “start”! I’m going to use this blog to keep a record of my personal notes and lessons and perhaps there is something useful here for others as well. New learning means joining the dots yourself, working out how to use tools and information others (both teachers and students) make available through all these different platforms we are exploring. Continue reading →

I have spent the past week trawling through the EDCMOOC Google site and checking out the comments, places and blogs of other participants.  The number of participants is already a little overwhelming and I am sure it will continue to grow as there is still more than 2 months before the course actually begins.  I am, however, grateful for this lead in time as I feel I will need it to become familiar and comfortable with the social media services we are being encouraged to use. Continue reading →

I discovered the edcmooc facebook group today and am now waiting to be added, hope I clicked the right button!  I have subscribed to the twitter group but have not yet been added as a member so I am hoping for more success on Facebook.  My preference is for Facebook over Twitter but maybe that is just because I am more familiar with it. Continue reading →

Salam Alykum everyone,
Peace be upon you

I was thinking of something crazy, and I decided to share it with you. For how long many teachers will have to keep their desire to teach digitally deep inside themselves without being given the chance to utilize it?!! 

 As for me (I have worked in Egypt and UAE,and now I’m working in KSA) whenever I try to mention using social networking sites,Youtube,virtual teaching,.. Continue reading →

Take 2:

Have you ever been pregnant? Didn’t it seem as though nearly every other woman of childbearing age was pregnant too? Amazing. Continue reading →

I was just reviewing the two articles (Welcome to Cyberia: Notes on the Anthropology of Cyberculture and Cyborg literacies and the posthuman text) currently in the suggested reading section of #EDCMOOC which already has a good deal of activity ramping up. I’m looking forward to seeing where this band of intrepid explorers goes.

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You’re never too old to learn!

The start of a new year and time to learn something new! Two months ago I’d never even heard of a MOOC or quadblogging, now here I am about to start my first blog in anticipation of the University of Edinburgh’s Massive Online Open Course on E-learning and Digital Cultures. Continue reading →

I have been inspired by Angela Towndrow’s blog post http://angelatowndrow.blogspot.com. Continue reading →

Just a brief introduction… My name is Daniëlle Verstegen and I am an assistant professor at at the department of educational development and research of the faculty of health, medicine and life sciences of Maastricht University in the Netherlands.

I have a background in learning psychology and cognitive scienc. Continue reading →

Whew! I’m not sure what I’ve let myself in for with this Edcmooc for E-Learning and Digital Cultures. I’ve been wriggling around for years trying to get involved in using online and digital media tools for learning and now I’m totally immersed, or will be very soon. Continue reading →

So this used to be my personal blog.  I figured it was better to try and start this one back up, rather than post Coursera work to my classroom home page.  Curious to find out if this worked! Continue reading →

OK, hardly a major task at the moment, which is just as well because I’m quite busy, but I’m just orienting myself with the online channels I’ll be using as a participant in E-Learning and Digital Cultures, a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) run by Coursera in conjunction with Edinburgh University. I’ve fixed up my profile and done the necessary adding on Google+, Facebook and Twitter. I’ve even added myself to the Google Map of the participants. Continue reading →

Waiting for the Coursera course to start …
Preparing as well …

Session starts at Jan 28th 2013 and lasts 5 weeks. Continue reading →

Ok so I have signed up for the #edcmooc which is probably both a good and a bad thing.

Good because

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QUADBLOGGING

The idea of a quadblog is for a group of people to write and comment on each other’s blogs. As the name suggests it’s usually 4 people blogging and in our case, it’s 4 classmates from the elearning and digital cultures MOOC . My fellow quadbloggers are: Dan Lemay, Sarah Prentice and Brooke Hessler

Our facebook group for the course is where I first heard of the concept and there I found a useful link that explains the origins and more about quadblogging. Continue reading →

Cos’è #edcmooc? Un hashtag, viene in mente subito agli utenti twitter. Ma che significa? Continue reading →

This blog is primarily a reflection space for me to discuss and review the materials that I will be learning in a MOOC I am taking through Coursera entitled “E-Learning and Digital Cultures”. 

Last September I was hired as the Learning Technologies Librarian at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary (APTS).  Part of my position is to assist faculty in developing and implementing an online learning program. Continue reading →

Well, I have taken the plunge and signed up to a Coursera online course called Elearning and Digital Cultures.  I actually signed up back in November but the reality of it has only set in now that I have had a welcoming email, joined the edcmooc FB page, Google+ page and started tweeting with the edcmooc hashtag. Continue reading →

We’ve received a couple of emails reminding and preparing us for the EDCMOOC Coursera course to date, it looks like there are many places we’ll be working, Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, YouTube and Google+ – I hope I can keep up!

OK. Hello again everyone. Long time with no updates or entries here. Continue reading →

Since I signed up for the #Edcmooc the hype and rhetoric around MOOCs has increased somewhat with cries that ‘HE is failing’ drawing in the venture capitalist and provoking the educators to defend the institution of learning (there are too many sources to name – just Google it). Surely soon the dust will settle; hype will peak and trough; some change will occur – but what this will look like in the next few years is still uncertain.

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I’m slowly sorting through what I want to use for the E-Learning and Digital Cultures course. There has been massive activity on the various social sites, Facebook and Google+ particularly. I’ve managed to RSS feed this blog to the Edcmooc news site and it’s now been converted to Google+ and is auto-uploading to my Google+ page. Continue reading →

That too before the official start of the course! Being a part of this mooc has opened up a whole new world of networking and socializing. Perspectives – connections – experience is so exciting. Continue reading →

Well, I’m exhausted. I’ve been mooc-hing about the various online and social media manifestations of edcmooc - the E-Learning and Digital Cultures Massive Open Online Course – and I’m beginning to get the idea that this is certainly a massive community. There’s no point in blogging how many people are in on it because by the time I get to the end of the sentence it will have changed again. Continue reading →

I’ve opened up my blog for the first time in nearly 14 months and the moths are bludgeoning madly towards the nearest source of light, so such an extent that they are blocking the very source of light that I need to write this blog. So, why have I turned to my blog after leaving it in post MSc in e-Learning wilderness?

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10 days to the #edcmooc official start, and it is already a lot of activity going on; specially on the facebook group page and G+ page.

It really needs coordination, or maybe the members shall be more patient.

I have registered my tweeter and blogger accounts twice, but there is no sign of them still in the lists. Continue reading →

One of the things that I have found to be quite remarkable since signing up for “E-learning and Digital Cultures” Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with the University of Edinburgh and Coursera is the sheer volume of online pre-course activity that has been generated by the EDC MOOC students – a kind of “limbering up” before the big event if you will. Not only that, there is huge potential and opportunity for what could be described as “Massive Open Online Socialisation (MOOS)”, generating newer and bigger social networks of people that are converging around a course / subject / discipline / interest, etc.

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As things are gearing up for the Coursera MOOC “E-learning and Digital Cultures”, I was reading Chris Swift’s post about what a MOOC looks like and really liked the visual idea of a digital footprint. So I too headed over to tagxedo and ran a wordle of this blog. 

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10 Tools Challenge – #0.5 – P2PU:

Isn’t the Internet fun with all the connections and ideas that bump into one another? I was eager to try Jane Hart’s 10 Tools Challenge and I am also trying out my first online book club, the User Generated Learning Book Club, in which I read about P2PU which stands for Peer 2 Peer University, “a grassroots open education project. Continue reading →

Well, the course hasn’t even started and I’m overwhelmed.  I hope everyone calms down when we have formative activities to complete as I’m having a hard time keeping up  It seems to be a theme others are feeling too however so I’m not alone.

I have found a great Google Presentation that I’ll be using as a homepage when I start going mad about where things are. Continue reading →

Anticipation for the upcoming MOOC “eLearning and Digital Cultures” is almost palpable, and it’s not just down to the massiveness of the course, which has enrolled a staggering 36,000+ up to press. It’s down to all the network-focused pre course activity that’s built up around it.

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Hi , I’m Angela and I’m  a MOOCaholic.

That’s the first time I’ve said those words. They don’t sound as bad as I thought they would. Continue reading →

We’re off … not quite! The Coursera and University of Edinburgh MOOC on “E-learning and Digital Cultures” starts next week, although with all the chatter surrounding it you’d think it’s well under way already (good publicity?). Continue reading →

Here we go round and round and round….

Oh dear, a couple of days of not reading blogs and tweets and Facebook and I am lost again! Continue reading →

Woah, this was scary but I survived.
Skip to the end if you just want the bottom line:

Scenario 1 edcmooc: 

Intro letter in November, course starts January 28, nearly 3 months of student led networking community building, all 150 of us, slowly coevolving together.

Then the next course email and within a week there were 2000 on fb. Continue reading →

The very First waves of joy and delight is now settled in the FB, especially for those who has never participated in an on-line course or a MOOC. But the heat is still on over the Google+ pages and Twitter accounts.

I, personally, am not a G+ fan at all, partly because of my first impression, thanks to my friend comments or whatever. Continue reading →

Sorry for the geeky reference but thinking of #edcmooc starting so soon (D-4, time flies!), I realise I feel a bit like Bilbo hitting the road for a brand new adventure: like him I have no idea what’s really in store for me but am I ever excited about it! (Let’s just hope my own adventure will be less dangerous and tragic )

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How do we know when something using Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) is actually going to work?  With experience I would say most of us develop a “Gut instinct” about this but I thought I would try to do something a bit more structured.

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The University of Edinburgh have dipped their innovative toe into the online learning waters once more by the “MOOCification” (does this word exist? it should you know) of one of their MSc in e-Learning (as of September 2013, this …
the accidental technologist

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