tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post4296754298103829463..comments2024-03-27T21:43:02.451-04:00Comments on NEW SAVANNA: Learning/Teaching Styles: Connected Courses ExemplarsBill Benzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-74844094450673691772014-10-25T18:28:29.298-04:002014-10-25T18:28:29.298-04:00Hi Bill! I just now finished writing up some thoug...Hi Bill! I just now finished writing up some thoughts in response to the great conversation you have helped spark here:<br /><a href="http://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2014/10/connected-content-ment-following-up-on.html" rel="nofollow">Connected Content-ment: Following up on last week's conversation</a><br />As you'll see there, my summer plan is to tackle my Ramayana and Mahabharata courseLaura Gibbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-50986717228808221082014-10-25T16:52:30.884-04:002014-10-25T16:52:30.884-04:00Good to meet you, Mariana.
And, if I understand y...Good to meet you, Mariana.<br /><br /><i>And, if I understand you correctly, that the skill of analysis and description need to be learnt to go beyond instinctive 'like' or 'dislike'.</i> <br /><br />That's certainly important, and a tough one. I remember when I took a course on Milton as an undergraduate. I didn't figure I'd much like his work. But the course was Bill Benzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-17643620164396815292014-10-24T11:38:09.879-04:002014-10-24T11:38:09.879-04:00How interesting! Your jazz comparison. In DS106 th...How interesting! Your jazz comparison. In DS106 there is an encouragement to do stuff in the 'style of' to learn and then adapt. Or read stories and work with the structure to learn about the shape of stories. The more general point is, of course, that theory informs practice and vice versa. And, if I understand you correctly, that the skill of analysis and description need to be learnt Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09719799930350273589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-55613048737812470972014-10-23T19:56:17.982-04:002014-10-23T19:56:17.982-04:00...those 3 examples are not representative of cMOO...<i>...those 3 examples are not representative of cMOOCs at all. Many cMOOCs have a lower "make"/design focus and more of a dialogue focus (tho u could always argue that blogposts are creations, too)</i><br /><br />Right, and I'll bet that MOOCs teaching physics, math, and chemistry are different still. <br /><br />I took me awhile to realize that there's a tension between Bill Benzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-36416904937346576182014-10-23T17:58:55.589-04:002014-10-23T17:58:55.589-04:00Hi Bill,
I love what you've done with this po...Hi Bill,<br /><br />I love what you've done with this post and it made me realize something interesting: those 3 examples are not representative of cMOOCs at all. Many cMOOCs have a lower "make"/design focus and more of a dialogue focus (tho u could always argue that blogposts are creations, too). But in any case, i see ccourses as less design-y than ds106 or phonar, really. Don'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-45643612534679434682014-10-23T15:45:37.735-04:002014-10-23T15:45:37.735-04:00Laura, about Sita Sings the Blues, doing online an...Laura, about <i>Sita Sings the Blues</i>, doing online annotation of <i>SSTB</i> isn't on my immediate agenda. But, since you're up for it, let's think about it a bit. What I'm ultimately up to is creating 'citizen scholars' working in literature and film and similar things. What I've got in mind is a humanities parallel to, for example, serious bird watchers and who Bill Benzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-67435321484457816742014-10-23T15:44:43.330-04:002014-10-23T15:44:43.330-04:00Hi Mariana,
Glad to meet you.
DS106 does encour...Hi Mariana, <br /><br />Glad to meet you.<br /><br /><i>DS106 does encourage analysis of existing stories to learn to craft one's own...but the practice is to learn to craft them...</i><br /><br />Which, of course, is fine and necessary. But it's different when the final work product isn't a story of your own, but an analytical and descriptive account of some a story or a bunch of Bill Benzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-6221657792698463622014-10-23T07:12:59.186-04:002014-10-23T07:12:59.186-04:00Bill,
Thanks for posting this. I am part of the D...Bill,<br /><br />Thanks for posting this. I am part of the DS106 community and have been for a while now. I too often wonder if it something about the nature of the subject matter that makes its pedagogy so successful. You say:<br /><br />"Those two things – learning about existing stories vs. crafting your own – are very different. It’s not at all obvious to me that the pedagogical Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09719799930350273589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-81906077461199450372014-10-22T22:01:05.974-04:002014-10-22T22:01:05.974-04:00Yes!!! She shares things at Google+ which is often...Yes!!! She shares things at Google+ which is often how I catch up with her. So tempted to get one of the Satyr T-shirts. :-)Laura Gibbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-16930675206049781602014-10-22T21:59:57.030-04:002014-10-22T21:59:57.030-04:00Have you been following her adventures in quilting...Have you been following her adventures in quilting?Bill Benzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-62197157574896474522014-10-22T21:55:16.967-04:002014-10-22T21:55:16.967-04:00YES, I joined in on that when she did a Kickstarte...YES, I joined in on that when she did a Kickstarter for the first round of recordings (I got an autographed DVD of Sita as my "reward")... and it was so exciting to see her start that whole process, gathering the voices she will use in the new film, hopefully in the amazingly creative way she made use of the voices speaking about the Ramayana in Sita. Being able to share Nina Paley'Laura Gibbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-80795274765126308632014-10-22T21:13:29.971-04:002014-10-22T21:13:29.971-04:00Well, just around the corner you'll see that N...Well, just around the corner you'll see that Nina's at work on another feature:<br /><br />http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2014/10/death-of-firstborn-egyptians-nina-paley.html<br /><br />Glad to make your acquaintance, Laura.Bill Benzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-50213994111533641642014-10-22T20:38:54.105-04:002014-10-22T20:38:54.105-04:00Oh wow, Bill, I found my way here to your blog out...Oh wow, Bill, I found my way here to your blog out of curiosity by clicking on the link you left at the forum... and I am SO GLAD that I did... because the first thing I saw when I got here was THE SITA CHRONICLES, so course I had to click, and yes, it is about that awesomness that Is Nina Paley.<br /><br />And, if you take a peek at my course, you will see why "Sita" leaped out at me:<Laura Gibbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com