Director of Training & Knowledge Management + Educational Researcher + Professor + Poet + Wikipedian = Liminality + Actor-Network Theory + Open Education
. . . and here I am, only my second day in the Connected Courses experience, and already I am given homework!
via http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qEy4p86pWdo/Tj3m0w-XqFI/AAAAAAAAnPA/E2SfRrgBg0g/s1600/what%2Bdo%2Byou%2Blike.jpg
I thought that @cogdog@hrheingold@jimgroom would have been able to read my mind and come to my rescue, or at least assistance, but no . . . they asked me to work for it.
After all, if I cannot say what I like, then how can I give them what they need to help me get there?
OK, time to roll up my sleeves and try to identify what I like. Here goes.
To my method, I reviewed the 141 blogs (at the time) that are registered in Connected Courses, and noted the ones I was drawn to. This is not content or quality based, but rather the ones that somehow visually drew me in.
I responded to the ones with clear images that are inviting, that capture some thought or mood or interest, and whose layout is clear and easy to follow with clear and uncluttered fonts.
Visually stimulating, not an overwhelming amount of text, with clear purpose and navigation.
These are the ones that I found engaging in a way that I wanted to revisit, to try to understand what they were about, and what I could learn from them through some form of interaction.
So, @cogdog@hrheingold@jimgroom, with these as examples, what can I do to try to make my own blog here easier to follow, and ultimately, to use?ultimately, to use?
It has been a long time since I posted here. A really long time.
Ok, to be fair, most of the Tweets I do every day (yes, every day) are archived here; they just do not appear on the home page. Nevertheless, I have not developed or shared or expressed any of my thinking here in some time, oddly enough since I completed my doctoral work.
Yes, I am busy. Who is not? I feel pulled in more directions than I can count due to my full-time work as a project manager in healthcare, an adjunct professor teaching graduate research, and hobby engaging in research on how people develop their identity and self-expression through troublesome thresholds concept experiences, especially related to social media and online networks.
Do I have time to blog? Enough to say that could not be better stated in 140 characters? Only time will tell, but with so many interesting people here who are already sharing, supporting, and engaging in research in this area, it is time for me to more explicitly engage in this community and see what I can learn along the way that will improve my teaching, research, work, and overall satisfaction thinking about and implementing stronger connections and networks.
Why not explore all of this with others who are looking at ways of connecting open resources through the Connected Courses community and Fall 2014 experience? This experience has been described as:
Connected Courses is a collaborative community of faculty in higher education developing networked, open courses that embody the principles of connected learning and the values of the open web.
It has been a long time since I posted here. A really long time.