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