By Barbara Ganley
To the Edges: eLearning, Innovation & Better Worlds A Collaboration with Barbara Ganley at The Canadian eLearning Conference June 17, 2009 REACH SCALE Creativity Trust Collaboration Communication Reflection Context Content LOCAL COMMUNITY Global Networks Practice Passion abundance bricolage simulation games monotony drill contemplation solitude privacy whirlpool willful ignorance Where are we from What are our cliches Ethics Empathy Participation Formal Learning Experience Depth eLearning: the promise of transcending limits of geography, time, circumstance & biology How are we doing? shared language common ground knowledge making multivocality reciprocal apprenticeships echo chamber willful ignorance intimacy letter writing dialogue contact zones adjacent monologue Ethics Empathy Belonging Participation Dependence http://www.slideshare.net/bgblogging/a-question-fro-wordcamped-vancouver http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdH70_nuVQ Fear Play Risk Failure Improv Speed "Networked Protests" Village Online Networks: Brazil & Environmental Efforts Kiva Children's Radio Foundation Young Writers' Project 826 Valencia Cellphones: microlending Moldova & Iran Front Porch Forum Exercise One: On Twitter-- a. What innovations would you like to see in eLearning? Use hashtag #celcinnovations The Modern Story b. What obstacles must be overcome to make a. a reality? Use hashtag #celcobstacles The Dalai Lama: "It is a time when there is much in the window but nothing in the room." Do we have the hunger to innovate to bring about better worlds? Old Russian Custom "a quantity of lightweight engagements" ~Chris Lott TTiX Keynote In-depth engagement with high-quality content For Tuesday Galbraith Dede hooks Local communities In groups of four: The Old Russian Custom: What is your story? What do you bring? What do you want to learn? Exercise Three: Image-to-metaphor-to-connections Exercise Four: Moving from Known to Unknown Twitter hashtag #celcproject Twitter hastag #celcproject2 Twitter hashtag #celcwildidea Find someone's project you'd like to discuss & make contact Connection Exercise Two Carrotmobs Dispatx Zeum Brooklyn Art Museum Inside School Digital history at UVA UMW blogs UIUC Ethnography of the University UBC Murder, Madness & Mayhem Artmobs SmArthistory School for Everything whyherewhynow
A Keynote for the Canadian eLearning Conference 2009 at UBC, June 18, 2009