World Wide Wiser

This was my 33th Christmas holiday while being an educator. The first 20 years I worked 50 a 60 hours per week (with great pleasure!), then gradually reduced to 45, so you don’t have to work in holidays (:-)). Meanwhile, to stand and to carry bags was almost impossible, so I did go on with a special chair [...]

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My house smells good, I am baking a cake for after dinner tomorrow when the Christmas Eve dinner with the children is nearly done. I have to go shopping for a few things I need. I am working at a school, so the holidays has began yesterday.
On this moment I don’t have enough courage to [...]

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In this paper I will answer a few questions as they are asked in the wiki cck08 for the final project.
What is the quality of my learning network? Diversity, depth, how connected am I?
I think that I have given a part of an answer in earlier blog posts. I am a member of a [...]

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In The Netherlands, a small country, happens quiet a lot about e-learning I think. There are special organizations like SURF, see my last post, and Kennisbank http://www.hbo-kennisbank.nl/nl/page/page.view/hbo_about.page (Knowledge-bank), there are many edubloggers. On the other hand there are very much lecturers, teachers, educators who have never heart of the concept Web 2.0 or never thought about using [...]

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Two weeks ago I wrote my last post on this weblog. In the meantime I did not do very much work for cck08. I read the posts in Moodle in my mailbox, I did some posting in Facebook and on Twitter, but I lost my being connected a bit. Last Friday I was in the [...]

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There where a few reactions on my last blog-post. I liked that very much and it seems a sign that feeling a bit lonely was not only my problem. Because of the subject, loneliness at a life session, it seems a bit odd that I was not in the Elluminate Session on Wednesday and not in [...]

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In a painful (physically, not mentally) and troubled night I have lots of time to think. I several times composed  this blogpost. And I also several times thought why should I. Till yesterday I was happy with the course and all I read and heard from other participants and our two teachers. I wrote a blog [...]

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How chaotic and unpredictable learning can be! I wrote my first paper and this is what happened. I received a formal and clear comment from George. I was very, but surely positive, amazed. A bit ashamed also, but just a bit. I told my partner and meanly there was a lot of pleasure about such misunderstanding [...]

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Since last week it seems a different world for me. I never really thought about if there was, is, a difference between groups, networks, collectives and so on. Now I had to. I was very impressed by the story of Stephen, That Group Feeling. I agree with the tendency about how groups can be of [...]

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Yes, to late! Today it is 7 Oct. and the instruction said 6 Oct. (ha, ha). But I am very glad that this post is here today. My life is bounded by illness. I work 12 hours a week for the boss and the rest of the time if it is possible. Not all weeks it [...]

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