During the eighthies, when I was a social work student, I found great inspiration in the life and work of Orlando Fals Borda, he is the father of Colombian sociology and also the creator of Participatory Action research. His huge contribution to the Latin American progressive thinking is invaluable. Fals Borda was a social scientist invoved in Popular Education programs, and his legacy is a permanent inspiration to
building a better society.
Since writing my last post I have been doing many things. I took a Spring course at U of R, participated in the Chilean Pavilion at Mosaic 2008 , and finallyI finished the last version for my Spanish thesis in Educational Informatics. At the same tame I continued working on my Spanish blog and my Facebook’s network. During my last Spring course I met two of my former online’s classmates. Then, I have come to realize how our Alec Couros’s course experience impacted our way of experience the teaching and learning experience.
The power of networking is real, even though I am not in touch with our EC&I 831 network, thanks of my experience in that course I knew George Siemens’ learning theory. The Connectivism’s father is preparing a Fall open on line course about Connectivism at the University of Manitoba. I am not really sure if I can fallow this course, because my regular courses at U of R will keep me busy. However, I believe in the power of Networking and you can always learn something new, even in an informal way. I am especially interested in this experience because a group of Spanish learners are building a community about Connectivism. This can be a great experience to learn more about active networks in my first language.
I was thinking about this post for the last few weeks since I finished our online course. We built a dynamic and heterogeneous network, but “What has happen with our network after our course ended?” If we assume that each student was working as a unique node, consequently when each node stopped working the network will disappear. However, this idea is too simplistic.In my opinion, the network is changing, as each student is working and building different networks today. Then, our network is not finished, it is just changing.
I think that is impossible to define how this change will occur; this is a fascinating idea about networking online.
