World Wide Wiser

The second week of the course CCK09 is nearly done. I followed all the discussions in Moodle via mail and Twitter. I did not read much. I did not discus anything myself. Still I was enjoying being a participant very much. I miss the Daily, but the other ways to be connected are OK for me this year. It is much easier to see what is happening then last year in CCK08. Discussing what Connectivism is, is not where I am able to. I don’t know enough to do so. For me it is of very great importance to live connected and to learn from so many sources via the Internet. I made an account in the course of Alec Couros. I listened to the Elluminate Sessions of CCK09 and that course. The last ones not life. I was happy to finally has discovered how to understand a PLE. Eduardo Peirano was of great help in that question. Of course there were others with PLE’s, but I can’t work with too much information, so I worked with his example. I am not ready yet, but I think my Google Profile is a sort of Personal Learning Environment also and I will be working on a better and more helpful PLE next week I hope.

This week I was finally back at work for a few hours after almost 3 month of holiday, hospital, rehabilitation. That feels very good. Working-spirit will be strengthened by working in my case. I have to write a program for my part in the Master Learning and Innovating about connected learning, using web 2.0 tools, why, when, which. The students are working in different kinds of education-institutes from school for little children (is that K12?) till Higher Education. Choosing why you should use the tools of this time is thus very various and also is choosing which tools are useful. I loved the video record in learn 4 life about using iPods with children, http://www.l4l.co.uk/?p=835 I saw many other very interesting sites, ideas, and so on coming by and collected them all in a map master-material. Enough to discuss and train to use many many hours! So, I am a happy person, I am going to the good side with my physical condition, will never be all healthy, but can very good live with that for almost 35 years now, thus no problem.

CCK09, I love it to be a participant, but I shall not ever be wise enough to say, that is Connectivism.  Still going strong and enjoying learning so much every day.