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Does Blogging Improve Learning Through Reflection?

Blogging is Easy, A Piece of Cake, Right? Blogging is EASY… so I thought. Every single time I have sat down to write a blog post it has taken me much longer than anticipated. It should only take 30 minutes I say… then, 1-3 hours later, I may finally be feeling like I can wrap

Networked Knowledge: 6 Types of Networked Knowledge Activities

Vanessa Dennen (2019), shares six types of activities which we fall into or sometimes we progress across. In this post, I list an example of how I have accomplished each of the six networked knowledge activities. 1. Collect Example I have been “favoriting” and “bookmarking” articles, websites, and blogs using Diigo and my bookmarks bar
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Shiny Pennies and External Pressures Here, There, and Everywhere Driving Instructional Decisions

Shiny pennies… Everywhere we look, there are new shiny pennies. Some good, some bad, some we don’t know until some experimentation, but we usually start to rush to them and instantly apply and use them. Should we use every shiny penny just because it is a new shiny penny or should we be letting our

Knowledge, Knowledge, Knowledge… What does it all mean?

This week, we are focusing on networked knowledge so the purpose of this post is to help me organize many different terms related to knowledge that keeps bouncing around in my head as we discuss networked knowledge. What is Knowledge? When someone experiences education, instruction, or training, we hope that they have learned something. They

How Do I Create A Creative Commons License for My Website?

Tutorial Video Of Embedding a CC License Onto a Website Thanks to CreativeCommons.org , making your own Creative Commons (CC) License for a PDF, website, etc. is pretty easy and straightforward. This is a YouTube video that I created walking you through how I created mine for my website. 8 Steps To Embedding a CC

When Was The Last Time You Read Terms & Conditions?

Terms & Condition Agreements & Contracts Have you ever read entire terms and condition for a house you bought, the apartment you rented, cell phone service you started, etc.? Chances are it is rare anyone has (besides maybe for the house), especially for social media and online services. Consider how many apps you use and

Open Education Resources (OER): Knowledge Hoarding vs. Knowledge Sharing

Knowledge Hoarding As I started to read the Caswell et al. (2008) article, Open Educational Resources: Enabling universal education, the playground childlike phrase kept playing over in my head: (FYI.. the URL above takes you to the PDF of this article as it is an OER PDF.. free for all) Na-na na-na boo-boo… Guess what
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Folksonomy… Ontology… Say What?????

Is it just me or does or did anyone else feel thoroughly confused trying to understand how and when to use the terms folksonomies and ontologies and what they mean? Start of Week 4 At the start of week 4, we were presented with a list of articles and a few topics and were told

Candida Cleanse/Diet & Online Credibility

Functional Health So, I have been working with a functional health coach. While most doctor’s look to and are trained to cure symptoms of medical problems, a functional health doctor will look for patterns in history and blood work to try to look for the possible root cause and address it. A functional health doctor,
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Is EVERYthing Crowdsourced Now?

What is Crowdsourcing? Jeff Howe first coined the word “crowdsourcing” in 2006 in a Wired Magazine article (Zhao & Zhu, 2014). While reading about and thinking about crowdsourcing, I knew I had experienced it, but it wasn’t really clicking right away until I started to identify examples and then the list just kept going. The

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