Week 1, CCK09
George Siemens on Sep 13th 2009
Here we are, a year later. Round two. Welcome!
This introductory week focuses on getting some ground work established. Then we’ll dive right in to discussing Connectivism.
I’ve posted a short introductory video: CCK09, Week 1.
Tag for this course – on Twitter, Delicious, Diigo, your blog, or anywhere else: CCK09. If the concept of tagging is new for you, here’s how it works:
In a traditional course, instructional design is utilized to provide structure and coherence to a course. In a distributed course, such as you’ll encounter in CCK09, conversations and content are not centralized. To bring these voices together, we rely on aggregation methods and software. When you post on your blog or on Delicious, if you tag your contribution with CCK09, others in the course will discover it through Google Alerts (or similar aggregation method).
Readings and resources for week 1:
Video Recap of Connectivism and Connective Knowledge 2008
Richard Schwier interviews George on Connectivism
Stephen Downes presentation: A quick introduction to connectivism (ustream)
George Siemens presentation on Defining Connectivism and Comparing connectivism with other learning theories
Readings
What is the Unique Idea in Connectivism?
Optional Readings/References:
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/connectivism/?p=101
Little Boxes, Glocalization and Networked Individualism (.pdf)
Synchronous Sessions:
All sessions will be held here in Elluminate:
Monday, September 14, 7:00 pm CST (Time zone conversions): Focus: introduction to the structure and focus of the course
Thursday, September 17, 4:00 pm CST (Time zone conversions): Focus: What is Connectivism
Next Steps:
- Subscribe to The Daily (you will receive daily (Mon-Fri) updates about course activity): http://connect.downes.ca/cgi-bin/login.cgi
- Post an introduction to the CCK09 moodle site (you will need to create an account if you have not used the moodle site before). Welcome a few others…engage in a few random conversations…
- Setup a blog…tag your posts with CCK09
- Post – in Moodle or your blog – on your reactions to presentations/papers on connectivism. Does the concept resonate with you? Why or why not? Are you learning through different methods than you did 5 or 10 years ago?
Filed in Uncategorized | 12 responses so far
Jarmo Talvivaara Sep 14th 2009 at 10:44 am 1
Hi,
(I already posted a comment, but wasn’t sure if it was submitted properly).
Is there something wrong in the (Week 1 Readings-section) article URL “What is the Unique Idea in Connectivism?”. I tried several times to browse it, but it only gave a blank page?
Best regards, Jarmo
Dennis Richards Sep 14th 2009 at 11:29 am 2
What is the Unique Idea in Connectivism? link is not working for me.
George Siemens Sep 14th 2009 at 11:52 am 3
Hi – I’ve updated the post now to correct the broken link…
Leon Cych Sep 14th 2009 at 09:38 pm 4
Is there an archive of the Elluminate session please?
George Siemens Sep 14th 2009 at 09:57 pm 5
Hi Leon – yes, recordings are here
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Ted Major Sep 16th 2009 at 01:55 pm 7
The link to recordings on the main wiki page points to a different location (sans recordings) than the link posted above.
Jeff Sep 17th 2009 at 04:07 pm 8
The “Defining Connectivism” link (in the readings and resources for week 1) does not link to a presentation. It links to a “Learning Technologies Centre Development Server.”
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silvana Sep 20th 2009 at 11:34 am 11
I’m using the same blog as CCK08 course.
I hope to be more active this time
Silvana
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