World Wide Wiser

This week was all about groups and networks. Looking at the readings and other resources, much came back from last year, cck08. I read all the discussions in Moodle, there were many tweets in Twitter, I read a bunch of blogs, but did not participate in discussions. Yesterday-morning at 9 I was waiting for the Elluminate-session of this week. It was a bit dumb because this was in the middle of the night for George and Stephen, and indeed, it was wrong. Nice was to have a little chat in the Elluminate-room with 2 other Dutch-speaking participants (had read my tweet ), Joost Robben and Dieter Blancquaert. In the evening, 21 h our time, I was in a restaurant having a nice dinner. This evening Martin Aasbrenn Bohr @maasbreng on Twitter, started some tweets about the session of last night. He brought me to listen to the session and discus some of what has happened and was said during the session. I had read his weblog. His question was mainly if recording this kind of discussions will make that people stay silent, afraid to make a failure. The language-problem can play a role in this. Last year I once was in a session and felt quit lonely, wrote a post about that feeling, so I can see his point. This year I have not participated very active, but I feel much more comfortably I think because of knowing how this kind of learning works. I smile and enjoy and let go and learn. There is nothing to be ashamed of. I can not tell to any other what Connectivism is, but I have a good image of how I see networked learning, how I can discus groups and networks with my “students” being my colleagues and Master-students. I love it to be learning so much from so many different people. Without cck08 this was never the case I think, so I will encourage everyone to take part in this kind of courses even if it is to difficult to really understand everything said en written. I like the Daily very much, this year again. I should miss it a lot if it was not there every day. And it is a pleasure to read the mails in my iPhone on any time a day when I have some time from-out the Moodle forums. So, it was a good cck09 week for me. I am glad Martin brought me to listen to the session, because that gave me also the courage to write this blog. My Dutch one has to wait till tomorrow. It is 0.30 now and I have to rest a while.