George Siemens and Dave Cormier Free-for-all

Thanks Jenn for posting the address for this Social media seminar tonight. George and Dave were so engaging and passionate about their subject matter. It was similar to our Eluminate session with Mack Male last week. However, in that session there were only 18 participants. This session had 200 participants (most from North America since the time seemed to work best for them). I quickly ran through the name of the participants but did not see anyone else from our class. I was brave enough to type in some comments and ques

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tions.

I think you can get to a recording of the session at: http://www.editlib.org/globalu/ It's not there yet but should be there soon. The July session is posted there. Unlike our session with Mack Male, there was no whiteboard available for George and Dave to post on. Any links they wished to share were typed into the lobby chat box. The next online session like this will be held on September 8 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Standard time. The topic for that session will be Accessibility in Open Educational Resources.

Here are some links to resources some of you may be interested in: (as they came up, I clicked on the links and they are in my tabs right now).

• The Role of Status-Seeking in Online Communities: Giving the Gift of Experience by Joseph Lampel and A. Bhalla (City University London - Sir John Cass Business School)
  Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2007 http://papers.ssr

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  n.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=950704
• Web 2.0: Inherent tensions and evident challenges for education by Nina Bonderup Dohn International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, Vol. 4, No. 3, September 2009 http://www.springerlink.com/content/cg77200048h24654/
  
• Educating Researchers by Arthur Levine http://www.edschools.org/EducatingResearchers/educating_researchers.pdf
• From one of the participants, Harold Jarche, I will be getting some information about how to cite online resources in research papers. When I checked his blog, I came across his blog post for today which is about safeguarding your data. Here is the address: http://www.jarche.com/2009/08/wheres-your-data/. I like his suggestions for how to ensure you don't lose valuable information if some of these online tools are discontinued.
• U-stream: This is a live streaming service. It allows you to take your class public very quickly. http://www.ustream

After writing my post earlier today about participating fully in the blogosphere, I realize that part of that participation is sharing resources as I come across them. I hope that some of these links will be helpful for you.

By the way, George and Dave are hilarious. It really was a free-for-all of ideas and engagement. They are both Canadians. I loved it. One of my favourite lines was when George said to Dave, "Dave, you are too close to embracing chaos." Since I am a chaotic type of personality myself, I appreciate encountering others who like to live teetering on the edge.