CCK08: Asking for help on network analysis of a blogroom

Oh, I enjoyed Valdis Kreb`s presentation Emerging networks (there are .pdf slides) very much. Pretty new stuff for me. I would like very much to try this kind of analysis in my blogrooms. Let’s make an example to look for useful hints.
With blogroom I mean the subset of the blogosphere constituted by the blog [...]

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CCK08: We are not at school

If we stay in this course as we stayed at school  we will probably find ourselves out of the course. The same word course should be forgotten.
Assignments
The course has assignments but this does not means that all the assignments have to be done. One should write when feeling to have something useful to offer or [...]

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Let’s be aware of dichotomization (CCK08)

The tendency to dichotomize issues is always strong, mostly when the new is at stake.
The discussion in this (outstanding) course makes no exception, ranging from the thoughtful reflections of Lisa Lane to the maximalist tirades of Catherine Fitzpatrick.
However, dichotomizations are dangerous because one may easily miss the whole picture and its complexity.
A couple of [...]

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Let’s try to grow the AIMN09 blogroom (CCK08)

I’m familiar with very large and reach blogrooms were I teach computer literacy in an almost asinchronous way but these blogrooms were all started with a couple of conventional lectures. That is, I enter in a classroom and transform it in a blogroom, sometimes a set of classrooms in a blogroom.
In the AIMN09, an experimental [...]

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CCK08: let’so go for a walk in a wood and relax …

It seems, perhaps not surprisingly, that many appear to be puzzled and sometimes annoyed by the chaotic structure of the course, even some of my italian classmates of the LTEver community.
Well, let’so go for a walk in a wood and relax …
What does it mean to know a wood?

to know its name?
to know the region [...]

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CCK08: Does Learning Grow or Is it Built?

The vision proposed by Stephen Downes …
Hence, in connectivism, there is no real concept of transferring knowledge, making knowledge, or building knowledge. Rather, the activities we undertake when we conduct practices in order to learn are more like growing or developing ourselves and our society in certain (connected) ways.
In What Connectivism Is
and by George Siemens
Connections [...]

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CCK08: trying to understand what I’m doing

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CCK08: The Connectivism & Connective Knowledge course

With this post I introduce myself in the Connectivism & Connective Knowledge course.
I live in Firenze, Italy, where I teach mainly computer literacy in various curricula of the Medical School in the University of Florence.
Very interested in this course because I realized a posteriori that what I was trying to do with my students [...]

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Web 2.0 for the congress of Nuclear Medicine

Dear reader, this is a welcome post for potential students of the WEB 2.0 refresher course related to the Italian National Congress of Nuclear Medicine that will be held in Firenze in March 2009.
You are probably wondering why it is written in english. The reason is that I’ll try to participate to the Connectivism [...]

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Presenza in aula informatica in settembre

Purtroppo sono costretto a cambiare all’ultimo momento gli orari di presenza nell’aula informatica al CEP per fare esami e verbali. Come avevo scritto nel calendario dei miei impegni, disponibile nella pagina wiki, e come avevo risposto a tutti coloro che mi avevano chiesto qualcosa in proposito, mi ero impegnato ad essere presente in aula fra [...]

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