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2013-05-21 17:15:33 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

2013-05-20 21:20:43 (10 comments, 2 reshares, 20 +1s)

I'm offering Think-Know Tools, a six week online course on theory and practice of personal knowledge management, June 19 - July 26. Augmented intellect and extended mind theory. Practices include social bookmarking as collective intelligence, concept-mapping, and Personal Brain. 
http://socialmediaclassroom.com/host/think2

2013-05-12 00:20:31 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

2013-05-07 22:42:14 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

This is connected learning if you consider how much of young people's information and knowledge-seeking involves Wikipedia and how it is so rarely connected to traditional curriculum. How to use Wikipedia as a teaching tool: http://bit.ly/10k1Id2

2013-05-07 20:28:19 (2 comments, 5 reshares, 14 +1s)

How to use Wikipedia as a teaching tool: http://bit.ly/10k1Id2

2013-05-05 03:01:30 (0 comments, 8 reshares, 14 +1s)

most-shared, most popular articles, papers, blogs abt technology & learning, updated automatically several times/day. http://spigot.org

2013-05-02 19:29:35 (4 comments, 11 reshares, 24 +1s)

I spoke at University of Utrecht a month ago about the subject of Net Smart: essential social media literacies of attention, crap detection, participation, collaboration, network know-how. Here is a well-produced video. Lots of introductory stuff -- I get started about 14 minutes in. Howard Rheingold on Net Smart - Keynote for Mediawijzer.net & Utrecht University

2013-04-24 21:55:01 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 14 +1s)

If you haven't checked out Super Awesome Sylvia, you have a treat in store. She combines inquiry-based, project-based, and peer learning with sheer fun. And exuberance. And charisma.

2013-04-23 17:02:17 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

My video interview & blog post about Kio Stark and her new book, Don't Go Back to School, “a handbook based on over 80 interviews with people who have successfully taught themselves a wide variety of skills and subjects outside of school.” 

2013-04-23 17:00:05 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 9 +1s)

12 slots remain: Intro to Mind Amplifiers May 14 June 21 Infotention, Curation, Augmentation, Cooperation

2013-04-14 17:04:10 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 15 +1s)

Intro to Mind Amplifiers: Infotention, Curation, Augmentation, Cooperation now scheduled May 14 - June 21. Contact me via howard at rheingold dot com if interested.

2013-03-29 18:08:00 (6 comments, 5 reshares, 15 +1s)

I plan to run a session of Intro to Mind Amplifiers (augmentation, infotention, curation) in May-June 
http://socialmediaclassroom.com/host/mindamp5 and Think-Know Tools in June-July 
http://socialmediaclassroom.com/host/think 

I will make schedules and revised syllabi available in mid April. Limited to 30 learners each session. $300; $250 if you've taken a Rheingold U course; $500 if your company reimburses. Contact me via howard at rheingold dot com if you want me to put you on a notification list for either or both courses.

2013-03-25 18:35:25 (4 comments, 5 reshares, 10 +1s)

My video interview with @techsoc http://dmlcentral.net/blog/howard-rheingold/praise-peer-peer-connectivity-technosociologist-zeynep-tufekci

2013-03-03 02:47:39 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 20 +1s)

2013-03-01 21:57:34 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Has Evernote already been covered at a Cool Tool? I find it hard to imagine that it hasn't.

2013-02-09 17:11:31 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 9 +1s)

This article, written in 2002, is prescient in regard to what we now call "connected learning" -- and one of the best examinations of the phenomenon of virtual community that I've read.

2013-02-06 21:07:01 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Maybe we need a category for noob questions about sketches? What I am trying to do is to get a diffuse RGB LED to cycle through red, green, blue, yellow, purple more and more quickly and then more and more slowly, then repeat ad infinitum. I also want the cycles to start with each color fading up from off to maximum brightness. Then I want to play with the relationship between the velocity of fading and the speeding up and slowing down of flashing. I hope this makes sense. Ultimately, these are to be the eyes of a sculpture. First, here is a sketch, adapted from Adafruit learning, that I know works for the speeding up and slowing down (although the yellow doesn't seem very yellow and I'm not sure it is flashing purple at all):

//Cycle through red, green, blue, yellow, purple, by varying
//intensity of red, blue, and green.

/*
Adapted from Adafruit Arduino - Lesson 3.... more »

2013-01-31 21:36:05 (21 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Anyone interested in having Hangouts for this community at regular times? The connectedlearning.tv webinars are organized in advance and center around particular subject matter experts. The themes of Hangouts with the connected learning community could be determined by community members. Chime in if you are interested. I can set up a Doodle poll if enough people chime in. Suggestions for themes are also welcome. We can play with chat, whiteboard, Google Docs and other tools available to us in the Hangout environment.

2013-01-26 02:31:38 (19 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

PUTTING IDEAS INTO PRACTICE: STARTING WITH TEACHERS

On behalf of the Connected Learning team, I want to invite the assistance of all 322 people who have joined the Connected Learning community. We have had a terrific initial response. But now that the introductions have been made, we need to focus on a few conversations that can draw more people into active participation. We do have a steady stream of posts that draw comments from two or three people. Let's see if we can start some threads that can draw in more people -- dozens, hundreds. 

What we propose is this: Let's start threads that are specifically about how different constituencies are using connected learning and making it work. Let's start with teachers. Tell us your success stories! Tell us about your unsuccessful attempts and what you think you learned from them. If we can get some traction on this, then next... more »

2013-01-25 21:40:53 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

PUTTING IDEAS INTO PRACTICE: STARTING WITH TEACHERS

On behalf of the Connected Learning team, I want to invite the assistance of all 322 people who have joined the Connected Learning community. We have had a terrific initial response. But now that the introductions have been made, we need to focus on a few conversations that can draw more people into active participation. We do have a steady stream of posts that draw comments from two or three people. Let's see if we can start some threads that can draw in more people -- dozens, hundreds. 

What we propose is this: Let's start threads that are specifically about how different constituencies are using connected learning and making it work. Let's start with teachers. Tell us your success stories! Tell us about your unsuccessful attempts and what you think you learned from them. If we can get some traction on this, then next... more »

2013-01-23 22:21:18 (16 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

A tool for collaborative decision-making. Anybody want to form a small team and try it out?

"Groups of all sizes make better decisions when all voices are heard, so we’re building a system that makes it easy and efficient for anyone to participate in decisions that affect them."

2013-01-21 21:32:56 (5 comments, 3 reshares, 12 +1s)

2013-01-21 19:49:24 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

Moving this community forward:

We're experiencing the usual pattern -- a flurry of introductions (many people interested in connected learning -- a critical mass if everyone who introduced themselves continues to be engaged!) followed by a hiatus. In my experience, the most lively and sustainable communities balance participant-generated structure and some kind of overarching structure to keep the conversation from being too chaotic. We can use the Categories listed in the left sidebar to further both those goals. 

My suggestion -- let's use the "What We Should Discuss" category to generate sustained conversations. https://plus.google.com/communities/113655426574061601680/stream/79e05733-a00e-4b58-849c-f258c746af1a

2013-01-21 19:34:43 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Dealing with (partially) learner-directed studies in a hybrid university class.

I'm dealing with (somewhat) connectivist learning with my Stanford learners ( http://socialmediaclassroom.com/host/netsmart ) and they are finding it difficult at first to break their usual habit of doing their homework the night before it is due. We have forums, blogs, mindmapping, a wiki lexicon, and wiki inquiry teams, learner lecturers, all going on at the same time. It's not as massive and apparently chaotic as a MOOC, but it's different enough from the routine that I have to continually encourage the learners to devote a little time to it every day instead of a massive session the night before the next class. I give them many opportunities for self-direction. They brainstorm the questions that are most important to them (regarding social media literacies) during the first minutes of the first class... more »

2013-01-21 18:35:41 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I'm a beginner. What inexpensive, easy to connect, small monitor would you recommend?

2013-01-17 22:19:27 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Aloha! Here is my 2 1/2 minute intro. I'll be presenting later in the course, so I want to participate as much as I can before then. However, I'm teaching two courses, so my participation will be sporadic -- one of the things I like about this kind of MOOC is the option to participate sporadically. Some URLs I mention. My current Stanford class on social media literacies: http://socialmediaclassroom.com/host/netsmart my Fall Stanford class on social media issues: http://socialmediaclassroom.com/host/vircom Rheingold U: http://www.rheingold.com/university

2013-01-17 22:11:03 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 14 +1s)

2013-01-17 20:20:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Aloha! (I'm not Hawaiian, but I've adopted the greeting because it's good for both "hello" and "goodbye" and I like the friendly sound of it).

I'm one of the Moderators here. I'm not really fond of the term "moderator" in this context -- it has gatekeeper connotations that are more appropriate, IMO, in other kinds of forums. I prefer "facilitator."

I'm also an educator. I teach courses on Social Media Issues and Social Media Literacies at Stanford, and used to teach them at UC Berkeley, as well. I blog for dmlcentral, which is related to connected learning: http://dmlcentral.net/blog/3663 and I sometimes moderate the connectedlearning.tv webinars. I instigated and participate in the creation and growth of the Peeragogy Handbook, a free resource for self organizing self-learners http://peeragogy.org

When I... more »

2013-01-11 19:55:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Aha! Since I checked in yesterday, there are dozens of pretty interesting intros. (Wouldn't it make more sense to have ONE comment thread for intros?) So here I am. I'm a BB fan from the paper zine days. I write, talk, teach, and got drawn into making things when the group of folks I used to make big floats with for Grateful Dead shows started making even larger things for Burning Man. In the process, I stopped painting on canvas and started painting on jigsaw-shaped wood. It's weird, when you think about it: almost all paintings are square or rectangular, no matter how imaginative they painting might be. Then as part of http://pataphysics.us I started adding lights to my paintings. That led to Arduino. Now I've set myself goals of learning electronics and programming. I want my art pieces to respond with sound as well as light. I continue to be interested in many of the other categories of... more »

2013-01-10 18:02:11 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 12 +1s)

10 of 35 slots left for Literacy of Cooperation online course. Registration closes Jan 18 

2013-01-09 23:23:56 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

EPUB and Kindle editions on the way! I tweeted about the handbook a few times and Doug Belshaw, who does good stuff with digital literacy for Mozilla, turned me on to his colleague, Zak, who will create EPUB and Kindle editions (Doug and Zak are both in the UK)

2013-01-08 20:02:43 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

21 of 35 slots filled for Literacy of Cooperation online course, starts Jan 24

2013-01-04 18:49:02 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 11 +1s)

We have the beginnings of a cohort, but there's still plenty of room in "Literacy of Cooperation," an online introduction to cooperation studies. This is NOT a MOOC -- quite the opposite. It's limited to 35 co-learners, and is highly participative, including live audio-video sessions, forums, blogs, mindmaps, and a wiki. It lasts six weeks, starting January 24. The syllabus, with links to all texts, is public. What you pay for ($300 via PayPal) is the opportunity to participate with me and other co-learners in an intensive learning community. Details at http://socialmediaclassroom.com/host/cooperation4

2013-01-02 03:39:29 (2 comments, 18 reshares, 32 +1s)

Happy Public Domain Day! http://peeragogy.org  Handbook published! Download http://is.gd/v1peeragogy  Print http://is.gd/3cidDt 

2013-01-02 01:55:57 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 11 +1s)

Offering "Toward a Literacy of Cooperation" Jan 24-Mar 1 Limit 35 learners. $300 
http://socialmediaclassroom.com/host/cooperation4

2012-12-26 01:11:34 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

2012-12-13 21:44:06 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

Looks like I'll be speaking in Switzerland on April 5. Anyone on the Continent who wants me to speak, contact me.

2012-12-10 22:13:55 (18 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Maybe we should radically revamp the forums? A lot of the conversation threads in the forums from the very beginning are no longer useful. Perhaps they could be archived in some way and then deleted, so that the forums are simpler and easier for newcomers to use?

2012-12-06 01:37:35 (6 comments, 10 reshares, 29 +1s)

Finally getting into Evernote.

2012-12-03 01:56:45 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 20 +1s)

Dog parks, humans, and the commons - nice empirical test of Ostrom's design principles in everyday life: 

2012-11-26 16:58:31 (0 comments, 5 reshares, 14 +1s)

My interview with Dean Shareski and article on turning assessment into a learning tool: http://dmlcentral.net/blog/howard-rheingold/assessment-turning-blunt-instrument-powerful-learning-tool

2012-11-16 23:00:36 (1 comments, 10 reshares, 20 +1s)

We continue to develop our volunteer-created handbook for peer learning. http://peeragogy.org/ -- volunteers welcome

2012-11-06 19:50:15 (5 comments, 4 reshares, 23 +1s)

My concept map (in progress) of metacognition: http://bit.ly/metacognitionmap

2012-11-04 01:32:37 (6 comments, 4 reshares, 15 +1s)

It's not like there are so many laudatory reviews of Net Smart that I am in danger of tooting that horn too much. I can't resist linking to this appreciation: http://21k12blog.net/2012/07/26/rheingolds-excellent-net-smart-how-to-thrive-online-an-appreciation/

2012-10-16 19:06:16 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 11 +1s)

Mind Amplifier e-book $.99 on Amazon today: http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Amplifier-Digital-Smarter-ebook/dp/B009GQXRQ8

2012-10-16 17:20:31 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 10 +1s)

It's Ada Lovelace Day! Here is a chapter I wrote about her for my 1985 book, Tools for Thought: http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/2.html

2012-10-09 19:48:58 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

Last chance to register for Think-Know tools. Registration closes tomorrow. Contact me ASAP if interested http://bit.ly/think-know

2012-10-04 23:39:38 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

I have four slots open in Think-Know Tools online course, starts October 17. Limited to 30 learners. Registration closes next week because I want all learners to have at least a week in advance to get ahead of the readings. http://bit.ly/think-know

2012-09-29 00:03:14 (1 comments, 8 reshares, 10 +1s)

Making (with a group) as a form of collective intelligence. Virtual Guilds: Collective Intelligence and the Future of Craft

2012-09-28 19:22:39 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 17 +1s)

"Mind Amplifier" now available for TED ebooks app, Kindle, Nook, iBooks  $2.99!