I had a crazy thought on my commute this morning. Well, I had many, but this is the first one I’m applying. I am going to try to rebuild my Twitter network and see if the dynamic changes. My hypothesis is that it won’t. I’m going to use Twitter Karma to stop following everyone. Then [...]
I think this social networking thing we have going on is more about brain chemistry and less about technology. We are making social connections, but I feel we are also making new internal brain connections, stimulating endocrine production and by nature, changing our personalities. The visual and audio cues we feed off create [...]
When I began researching virtual worlds a year ago, I had difficulty finding the value for educators. In all my research, the best examples I could find, were those involving social activities and communications studies, such as Sarah Robbins’ rhetoric classes. While there were stellar examples of scientific simulations, I couldn’t see the [...]
I participate in a vibrant, flowing, organic and energetic online community of learning practice. For close to a year, we’ve convened night and day, despite differences in time zones. Some of us are available to share, learn and discuss our work up to fourteen hours a day. I am beginning to question whether or not [...]
I have reached the mythical 500.
Following 312
Followers 504
This weekend I attended a session at Northern Voice hosted by Chris Lott, during which many participants expressed distaste at the desire some Twitter folks have to grow their Follower base. The mythical number “500″ was batted around as if people who attain it were guilty of some [...]
I have not yet wrapped my mind fully around the experiences of this past week. There are moments that touched on thoughts from multiple blog posts I’ve had in the past about social networking and Twitter. I would love to take time to go back through my posts and see if I still feel the [...]
As someone who does not usually enjoy face to face social events, I have discovered a new side of me at Northern Voice. Can a person fall in love with a conference? Obviously, it isn’t just the event, but the people who make it so amazing. From the moment I began meeting [...]
I have a confession to make. I am guilty of encouraging instructors to avoid synchronous communications in online courses and focus on asynchronous discussion boards and other means of communication. I think this started when I was a WebCT administrator and the synchronous tools never worked. It continued as I moved to another institution and [...]
There’s something a little different about the network on the weekends and I can’t quite put my finger on it. What I do know, is that by Saturday afternoon, I’m usually ready to go into hiding until I’m back to work on Monday. I think some of it has to do with the [...]
My network is growing every day. I enjoy meeting new people and learning so much I don’t even want to sleep! However, I am having a hard time with the fact that we have access to all these amazing new tools, yet I still click through dozens of sites to connect with people. [...]