Now that I feel like I am coming out of the woods with regards to workload and timelines for the Fall semester startup I am now digging into the ballooning open course Connectivism and Connective Knowledge being facilitated by Stephen Downes and George Siemens. I started with the Moodle forums and simply couldn’t keep drinking from the firehose, but have found following the discourse emerging from the blog via RSS much more manageable.Seeing that I just registered networkeffects.ca with CIRA as the new domain for this blog I thought it only fitting to draw your attention to the lastest presentation in CCK08 – Valdis Krebs on Emerging Networks which addresses some of the topologies of information networks and how the rubber hits the road as human interaction is mediated by these networks.CCK08
Now that I feel like I am coming out of the woods with regards to workload and timelines for the Fall semester startup I am now digging into the ballooning open course Connectivism and Connective Knowledge being facilitated by Stephen Downes and George Siemens. I started with the Moodle forums and simply couldn’t keep drinking from the firehose, but have found following the discourse emerging from the blog via RSS much more manageable.Seeing that I just registered networkeffects.ca with CIRA as the new domain for this blog I thought it only fitting to draw your attention to the lastest presentation in CCK08 – Valdis Krebs on Emerging Networks which addresses some of the topologies of information networks and how the rubber hits the road as human interaction is mediated by these networks.
Took a quick boo at the Krebs site. Didn’t see anything about the emerging role of reputation-flagging as opposed to popularity alone as a sorting and sifting mechanism. Seems to me that’s the next, natural step. Using the flexibility of the web world, of course. Still think we’re seeing the wild, wild west days not the stable, end-point culture on the web.