Bringing it on Home:
eLearning and the Neighborhood
A Collaboration at eLearn 2009 with Barbara Ganley of Digital Explorations
Collaboration:

List conditions and elements important to complex, deep learning
Efficacy
HAPPY CHICKENS LAY BETTER EGGS
LOCALvore
OMNIvore
ECOvore
Front Porch Forum
Stream Team
http://streamteam.wikispaces.com/
http://www.smallfeet.ca/ Carrotmobs
http://medic.frontlinesms.com/
Mobile Health
http://okanaganfood.ca/
Okanagan Food Portal
Everyblock
murmur
School of Everything

Organizational & network mapping:
hubs
gatekeepers
pulsetakers
Ronald Corwin  
(http://ronaldcorwin.com/Ronaldcorwinresume.html)Valdis Krebs 
(http://www.orgnet.com/index.html)Karen Stephenson 
(http://www.drkaren.us/KS_publications01.htm)

Fixit
Mapping Main Street
http://350.org 
350.org
http://www.openplaques.org/plaques
Plaques
I am known
I am understood
I belong
I matter
I care 
I am responsible
I act (I share)
I reach out
(I mentor)
Cubicle
Photo by D'Arcy Norman
http://bit.ly/2xlR1y
Flickr photo by jimg944
Smorgasbord
Virtual Farming in Africa
Storytelling:
Sharing
Connecting
Co-creating
My Learning Story:

Mapping Our Anzacs
http://bit.ly/1O94Ey
Flickr 365 Group
 http://bit.ly/2xlbi9
 Robert Frank Show
http://bit.ly/2xlbi9
Student's Feedback
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bg/3345280416/
Local Expertise &
The Neighborhood


Discoveries
http://smarthistory.org/
But also the reality of the...
http://schoolofeverything.com/
http://bit.ly/1sTDqp
http://www.mappingmainstreet.org/
Weaving the Neighborhood into eLearning 
and eLearning into the Neighborhood
Vermont Barn Census
http://www.uvm.edu/~barn/
Collaboration:
Images, Metaphors
& Stories
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bg/sets/72157622596513576/
From eLearn AFrica 2008
From George Siemens:
Knowing Knowledge
http://bit.ly/ibZN3
Free Learning
OER Commons
RIT's Open Publishing Lab
Unclasses
"We fixate on self-esteem and unthinkingly build narcissism because we believe that the needs of the individual are paramount."  Jean Twnege Generation Me, p. 74
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
Edgard Allen Poe
We are more likely to take responsibility for what we have participated in creating."  David Matthews
"It is membership, the experience of being at home in the broadest sense of that phrase...To belong to a community is to act as a creator and co-owner of that community. What I consider mine I will build and nurture."
Peter Block,  Community: The Structure of Belonging
Stuart Brown's TED Talk on Play:
http://bit.ly/W7yms
"We are recovering from years
of social disintegration." Rob Cottingham
Northern Voice 2009

Through collaboration we transcend the constraints of biology, of time, of habit and achieve a fuller self beyond the limitations and the talents of the isolatted individual."   p.188

"...produtive collaboration requires sustained time and effort. It requires the shaping of a shared language, the pleasures and risks of honest dialogue, and the search for common ground."

    ~Vera John-Steiner  Creative Collaborations
“What I want to leave behind is false romanticism.  What I want to carry into the fight is the original romantic urge for the specific, the local, the real.   What I want to leave behind is quoting Thoreau; what I want instead is to follow more deeply the complex spirit of the man.  What I want to leave behind are pages of facts.  What I want to carry forward are facts marshaled for purpose, facts enlivened because they follow an idea.  What I want to leave behind is the sanctimony of quietude and order and "being in the present."  What I want to embrace is loud and wild disorder, growing this way and that, lush and overdone.  What I want to leave behind is the virtuous and the good, and move toward the inspiring and great.  And while we're at it I want to leave behind anything false, false to me that is, false to what I feel is my experience on this earth.  What I want instead is to wade through the mess of life without ever reaching for a life ring called The Answer."   ~ David Gessner http://www.ecotonejournal.com/mygreenmanifesto.html” 
“To become an expert, one must dare to confront the perils of the new.” Yi-fu Tuan http://www.yifutuan.org/
www.anecdote.com.au/archives/complexity
Additional Food for Thought
Opening Question:
Why consider the role
of the local in eLearning?
Noncredit participants in Alec Couros's 
Grad course: http://eci831.wikispaces.com/
Are you an art collector?
kiwanja: SMS
UNESCO's Open Training Platform
Behance Network
South South
Petrucci Music Library
Polymath
Flat Classroom Project
Image by Nancy White
http://www.flickr.com/photos/choconancy/396841748/
terroir
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryanalexander
Mentoring
Access to content
Negotiation
If you use the #eLearnbg when you tweet, I will weave your contributions into this presentation 
NOTE:
The Sustainable 
Living Arts School
Connexions
http://cnx.org/
Fearless City
http://www.fearlesscity.ca/mobile