My Journey on the Connectivism Course

Really enjoyed Valdis Krebs’ session on ‘business and social networks’. I think it was all the diagrams

For me, it definitely goes to show that graphics/diagrams can be used to communicate ideas as well as just plain data.

The graph below, adapted from Connecting the Community, shows my relative positions in both the CCK08 on-line community and my own PLN on-line community. Doing a little better on the second

I suspect given the size of the CCK08 community there are probably already several ’sub communities’ developing within the main one, each of them mirroring this graph.

In the CCK08 on-line community, I am sitting somewhere between the lurker and the loosely connected fragments in the second ring, mainly because I feel that I am not engaging with the material in enough depth in order to contribute and thus become a highly connected member.

But, I like Andreas’ recent observation that “The course has assignments but this does not means that all the assignments have to be done. One should write when feeling to have something useful to offer or something to ask for help, not just to have an assignment done”.

This is what I will be attempting to do. Mabye, as the course continues, this will lead to becoming a member of a smaller inner core or mabye not. Either way it will be an interesting journey.

Phew, not the only one! – Discovered I was not the only one wondering if connvectivism was a theory.

Comment1
Connectivism for me is yet another way for us to try to explain something we have all experienced on a regular basis for most of our lives, the amazing yet utterly mundane experience of learning. It’s very name implies movement, continuity, evolution. Much like the intricate patterns of diffusion.
- edna talboy
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca:83/moodle/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=599

Comment2
I appreciate your thoughts, and wonder how the theory of connectivism is different from the theory of social constructivism. – Ken Anderson

Comment3
Constructivism
http://amusingspace.blogspot.com/2008/09/connectivism-and-actor-network-theory.html

Allocating enough time to this course is already proving a problem. Seeing as I am not doing this course for credit, I have decided to work at my own pace and dip into the readings etc as time allows. Will not be attempting the mindmap at this point – maybe when time prevails.