Thanks, Chih, for your comments to Lesson 1. I am beginning to get connectivism by allowing myself to experience it. My favored learning approach in most situations is to strive to see the big picture first. This approach has facilitated by experience of connectivism. The skills of striving to see the big picture are the same cognitive skills as the skills of seeing patterns in information. Also while I am a trained convergent thinker, I am an divergent or associative thinker by nature. This preference for associative thinking combined with the impetus to see the big picture has allowed me to experience the cognitive processes of connectivism.

Betsy's Reflection 9/27/09

This week I experienced connectivism through searching blogs on Web 2.0 and connectivism and following the interesting discussion and links associated with the blogs. I bookmarked important sites, and followed others bookmarks. I was able to do much more fruitful research, more quickly, and do creative thinking in the process. My PLE helped in this process. PLEs coupled with connectivist thinking is the power tool of critical thinking, learning and productivity

Lesson 2 Reflection

These couple of weeks have been tough due to personal reasons. As a result our team did not have a chance to work meet as often as we would have liked. We met today and felt our meetings are very productive and have a game plan going in to next week. We will be very busy as a group in the month of October, but as of now I think we can make it.

This lesson was interesting. Once again, Chih know how to challenge our thinking. Ou twitter discussions were OK and for the most part I think they do work, but I have to agree with the class that a threaded discussion seems more meaningful. It is hard to keep up with the speed of technology, but this class is helping to digest it in appropriate size chunks so far.

Reflections from Lesson 1

The discussion of connectivism and constructivism have been some of the most rebost and enlightening of any I participated in since become a student in the ETC program. As for my experience of building a PLE I have been challenged to learn by discovery, by being a bricoleur (tinker) and consulting my networks. :) Betsy

Lesson 1 Reflections

Lesson 1 presented some new opportunities and challenges for our group. We had our first meeting today and I we both agree that we have advantages and disadvantages in our group. We are only two people who live very busy lives and coordinating our schedules can be tough, but we are sure that it would be tougher if our group was larger. It is an advantage for us to be a small group. Our disadvantage obviously is the fact that it will increase our workload to accomplish our team tasks.

We had a good meeting and are organizing ourselves as best as we can. We are confident we will succeed.