Gardening and teaching.. for a better community

“Kids should not have to leave their community to live, learn and earn in a better one.”

The Peeragogy Project – Self- Learning

“Learning is a social, active, and ongoing process.” Howard Rheingold

For more infomration The Peeragogy Handbook

Visual Notetaking on the iPad

Great tips on how to use various drawing programs to sketch on your iPads. This tutorial also includes how to record and add audio.

Motherboard TV: Douglas Rushkoff in Real Life | Motherboard

“For someone who likes to talk about the virtues of disconnecting, the media critic Douglas Rushkoff seems surprisingly always on.”

Alex Pasternack has written a great article about Douglas Rushkoff. He talked to our Howard Rhiengold alumni group a few months ago and he is well worth listening to.

Motherboard TV: Douglas Rushkoff in Real Life | Motherboard.

Jeff Pulver – Being Vulnerable In the Era of the Real-Time Web

Why I Flipped My Classroom

http://www.fi.ncsu.edu/project/fizz/

From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aGuLuipTwg&feature=related

University 2.0 – Sebastian Thrun

http://new.livestream.com/channels/556/videos/112950

He quit Stanford to be able to reach many students instead just a few.

Howard Rheingold at UC Berkeley Regent’s Lecture

http://vimeo.com/35685124

Howard Rheingold offers a glimpse of the future of high-end online learning in which motivated self-learners collaborate via a variety of social media to create, deliver, and learn an agreed curriculum: a mutant variety of pedagogy that more closely resembles a peer-agogy. This lecture was presented at UC Berkeley on January 23, 2012.

Alexandra Samuel: Ten Reasons to Stop Apologizing for your Online Life

Alexandra Samuel argues that once we embrace our online lives as part of our real lives we will unlock the potential of the internet.
Alexandra Samuel is the Director of the Social + Interactive Media Centre at Emily Carr University, and the co-founder and principal of Social Signal, one of the world’s most experienced social media agencies.

http://tedxvictoria.com

http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/

TEDxValletta – Alex Grech – We Are Everywhere

Here is one of my co-learners from Howard Rheingold’s “Mindamp” course. Our group was the lucky first ones to take these classes for a low rate — thanks twitter. Now we have started an alumni group and continue to learn from one another.