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My Best Virtual Friends Nominations, 2009

Last year, in December, the Shorty Awards, gave me the opportunity to nominate and give thanks to all my best Twitter friends

Gabriela Grosseck alerted me, via Delicious, that Steve Hargadon had posted about the Edublog Awards 2009 Ceremony :

we asked those attending live in Elluminate to give a “shout out” to someone who had made a difference for them this past year. One of the downsides of an awards ceremony, and especially one in which there is an imperfect public nomination and voting process, is that it doesn’t really do justice to the larger sense of community and support that exists in our ed tech / social media / Classroom 2.0 / blogger world. We wanted the awards show to have a way to recognize the broader contributions that are made every day.

During the “shout out” I gave thanks to: Claudia Ceraso (fceblog), Lisa Lane, Patricia Hensley, David Truss, Sabrina De Vita, Luz Pearson, Gabriela Grosseck, Britt Watwood and… they didn’t give me enough time to nominate other great virtual friends like, Lorena Zanola, Nicola Avery, Malinka Ivanova, John Mak, Durff , Elizabeth Sheppard, Jennifer Verschoor, Leila Nachawati and many others

This is my post to say Thank You!! to all my best virtual friends during 2009 and to wish them a Happy New Year 2010.

My PLE for the 2009 Edublog Awards

This is my start page, my Personal Learning Environment (PLE), my list of aggregated resources for the The Edublog Awards 2009. It is a real example of a PLE, Personal Learning Environment.

The Edublog Awards
- The Edublog Awards
- blog – The Edublog Awards
- The Edublog Awards shortlisted nomination
- The Edublog Awards Ceremony 2009
- Elluminate Recording

My Nominations
- My Nominations for the 2009 Edublog Awards
- Argentinas en Concurso Internacional de Edublogs
- Saint Exupery 6
- The Edublog Awards « Saint Exupery 6
- Best Class Edublog 2009 – The Edublog Awards
- Blogworthy Tweets
- Most Influential Tweet Series 2009 – The Edublog Awards
- Supporting Edubloggers – The Edublog Awards 2009 Results

Search Blog Posts
- edublog awards – Google Blog Search
- edublog awards – Icerocket Blog Search

Other Blog Posts
- Nominations, Appreciation and Inquiry | David Truss
- Nominations and Voting by Peers is a Big Boost
- Room 10 Grey Lynn School

Supporting Edubloggers – The Edublog Awards 2009 Results

This was the first time I nominated and voted in the Edublog Awards. I nominated those edubloggers from my social network whom I thought were the best in their categories.

I was so sad that Lisa Lane, Patricia Hensley and John Mak were not selected for the edublog awards finals and I was so happy that Claudia Ceraso and Sabrina De Vita were nominated for an edublog award. They were all my nominees in their categories

With the help of Lorena Zanola we contacted our social networks to find people willing to vote for them.

This is the page of the Most Influential Tweet Series 2009 – The Edublog Awards, where Claudia Ceraso ’s post was competing. You can find the list of all nominated edublogs, the winners and the results for each blog

Claudia’s post, Blogworthy Tweets, was the 1st Runner Up!!

This is the page of the Best Class Edublog 2009 – The Edublog Awards, where Sabrina De Vita Blog was competing. You can find the list of all nominated edublogs, the winners and the results for each blog

Sabrina’s blog, Saint Exupery 6, was 6th out of 38 class edublogs. I was so happy!!!

I am also very happy because Sabrina, Lorena and I learned a lot during the awards.

I also want to give thanks to David Truss , who was my teacher during these days and so he really deserved my vote for the Best Teacher of 2009, although I haven’t nominated him

Voting is very different than nominating.

Nominating is more emotional since we can only select a few from the thousands of available excellent edublogs.

And you really want that your nominated blogs win the Awards.

In many categories you will have to vote for edublogs you didn’t nominate.

The voting exposes us to all the nominated edublogs. Since we have to chose one in each category we need to review them. So I think that the Awards are an excellent way to promote many great edublogs.

I want to give thanks to all my friends who voted for any of the edublogs I nominated.

Connectivism, Corporate and Workplace Learning, CCK09

- Internet Time Blog: George Siemens & Connectivism

George Siemens has posted a great presentation of his concept of connectivism. Couple this with Stephen Downes’ article on eLearning 2.0 and my take on informal learning. The three of us come at the topic from different directions but end up in nearly the same place. We’re trying to schedule an on-line conversation to explore our intersections.

Their Conversation ( via Harold Jarche ):
EdTechTalk#23 – a discussion with Jay Cross & George Siemens

Connectivism
- CCK09: Workplace environments – can they exhibit connectivism
- Connectivism – Are you connected to your workplace and colleagues?
- The Education Bazaar » Connectivism: Danger or Opportunity
- Connectivism and the modern learner « Learning in the Corporate Sector
- Instructivism, constructivism or connectivism?

Learning 2.0 and Informal Learning
- Drop the “social” in “social learning” when talking to the C-suite
- Full Circle Associates » 4 Meta Skills for Learning Professionals
- A Practical Guide to Implementing Web 2.0 Tools in Your Organization
- I Finally Get It – Why Social Networking is So Important
- 15 Objections to using Social Learning
- A Followup to 15 Objections – 120 More
- 5 Requirements of Social Learning Adoption
- Enterprise 2.0 Examples and Successful Stories
- Objections to Social Learning – Wiki
- Tools They Make You Use – LearnTrends
- New Skills for the Learning Pro? The Big Question… | gram consulting
- 10 Strategies for Integrating Learning and Work | gram consulting
- Anecdote – Building a collaborative workplace

My Nominations for the 2009 Edublog Awards

These are my 2009 Edublog Awards Nominations:

Best individual blog
Successful Teaching, by Patricia Hensley

Best class blog
Saint Exupery 6, by Sabrina De Vita

Best student blog
Suifaijohnmak’s Weblog, by John Mak

Best resource sharing blog
elearnspace , by George Siemens

Most influential blog post
This is Progress?, by Lisa M Lane
My blog is my PhD , by David Truss

Most influential tweet / series of tweets / tweet based discussion
ELT notes: Blogworthy Tweets, by Claudia Ceraso

Best teacher blog
Successful Teaching, Patricia Hensley
Lisa’s (Online) Teaching Blog, by Lisa M Lane

Best elearning / corporate education blog
eLearning Technology, by Tony Karrer

Best educational use of audio
LearnTrends Conferences, by Jay Cross, Tony Karrer and George Siemens

Learntrends 2009 Conference Live Blogging

Corporate Learntrends 2009 Sessions

Day 1

Dawn
Convergence in Learning

Early Bird
Extending Learning to the Edges of Organizations
Learntrends Live: Reuters case study

Mid Morning
LearnTrends Live: Jane Hart
Building a social learning environment by Jane Hart

Late Morning
LearnTrends Live: Harold Jarche on PKM
Personal Knowledge Management

High Noon
Merging Information, Learning and Social Media

Early Afternoon
Learntrends Innovation Awards 2009

Day 2

Dawn
The Immernet Singularity

Early Bird
Reinventing Organizational Learning

Day 3

High Noon
LearnTrends: Microlearning

My PLE for the Corporate Learntrends 2009 Online Conference

This is my start page, my Personal Learning Environment, PLE, my list of aggregated resources for the Learntrends 2009 event. It is a real example of a PLE, Personal Learning Environment.

LearnTrends 2009 – The Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations Conference, November 17-19, 2009
The theme/focus this year is on Convergence in Workplace Learning.

- Event Schedule
- Elluminate Sessions
- Learntrends Forum
- Learntrends Recordings
- Live Blogging

- Google Blog Search
- Icerocket Blog Search
- Bookmarks on Delicious
- posts on WordPress
- Twitter Search

These 2 useful sites aggregate blog posts from many Learntrends participants:
- eLearning Learning
- Alltop eLearning News

Emotions in Social Networks, CCK09

John Mak asks:

Who am I? What is your identity in social networks?
How would emotions impact on social networking?

He also shows some videos in his post.

I would like to discuss this topic with John. Since I am a reading/writing-preference learner, I searched for text references about Emotions in Social Networks. These are the references I have found

- CCK09: help with some clarification please

hey, if i’m a node, i want to do more than connect and fire…i want to think, to feel, to be…
Im ok with a metaphor of synaptic firings, but as a human filled with love & self importance & some regard for others, i also know i am more than this.

- The importance of emotions | Why are emotions important in life

Emotions help us to become aware of our needs. All emotions derive from needs. When we feel that our needs are being met, we experience feelings of comfort. The better we are at getting our needs met, the more peaceful and comfortable our lives will be.

- Emotions

Emotions are our feelings. Literally. We feel them in our bodies as tingles, hot spots and muscular tension. There are cognitive aspects, but the physical sensation is what makes them really different.

- Emotional Intelligence in online and community learning

As this is the second round of Connectivism CCK09, I am more interested in how “EQ” and emotions propagate through the network, or at least how people would perceive their learning being influenced by the emotions of those nodes, connectors, instructors, co-learners, bloggers and others in the communities.

- Maru’s blog: How do we deal with emotions in a network?

Are we willing to discuss our emotions openly?, Does dealing openly with participant’s emotions really promotes learning?

Emotions are important for connections but how and where do we deal with them in a network?. I bet some research been done on this, could any of you share links on the subject?

- Twitter: “pointless babble” or peripheral awareness + social grooming?

I vote that we stop dismissing Twitter just because the majority of people who are joining its ranks are there to be social. We like the fact that humans are social. It’s good for society. And what they’re doing online is fundamentally a mix of social grooming and maintaining peripheral social awareness. They want to know what the people around them are thinking and doing and feeling, even when co-presence isn’t viable. They want to share their state of mind and status so that others who care about them feel connected.

- on the danger of twitter : D’Arcy Norman dot net

But, I fear that the strengthened social connections are not worth the cost borne in superficial thinking. Being more closely connected is an extremely valuable thing – and Twitter is somehow able to make my connections to people online feel almost tangible, almost real – but not at the cost of shallow thinking.

- cck08 Being there and suddenly very lonely | World Wide Wiser

But yesterday, during the Ustream session on Elluminate, I suddenly felt very lonely and estranged. It was of not any importance that I was there, I felt not seen and not heard, I had nothing to say. It was to difficult to read the chat and listen to the session-leaders at the same time. I had the feeling that all other participants knew each other very good and for a long time

- Personal Circles – Life With Alacrity

Describes our Support Circle, Sympathy Circle, Trust Circle, Emotional Circle and Familiar Stranger

…the personal limits described herein instead define the limits placed on how many people an individual can know with various degrees of intimacy.

– Emotion Becomes “Tractable” to Neuroscience

The amygdalar circuit pulls people away from dangerous situations by giving them emotions like fear and anxiety, when activated. The left prefrontal area pushes people toward new, challenging situations by giving them emotions like hope and optimism, when activated. A person with a healthy, well-adjusted emotional life experiences the appropriate emotional response in situations of danger or situations of opportunity.

- The Psychology Of Emotions, Feelings and Thoughts

This book puts forth the idea that life is divided into three groups, emotion, thinking, and feeling. These three groups make humans feel in certain ways, thinking, physical stimulus, and emotion all contribute to feeling. But what is the difference between a thought, an emotion, and a feeling? Is there an overlap between the three? Probably, since any emotion can be broken down into the sensations and real events that caused it, and these events all lead to emotions, feelings and thoughts. So emotions, feelings and thoughts all might have the same source, they are just expressed differently in the mind. Where do your emotions, feelings and thoughts rate on a scale of clarity? Where do they rate on a scale of focus and attention? How does understanding the psychology of ones emotions, feelings and thoughts lead to a long term increased consciousness?

- Where’s the Emotion? The Forgotten/Left Out of Biological Basic Needs

Maybe physical necessities keep numbers up and a heart ticking, but aren’t emotional desires a large part of what differentiates organisms? Aren’t our conscious minds- and understanding ourselves- a different, but perhaps just as real need- or desire- worthy of mentioning, even at the most basic biology level? If we’re taught in first or second grade about basic physical necessities- it seems that, in addition to teaching that food and water are necessary, we should be taught about emotions, even to the smallest degree that we could understand at that age.

- A Macro Cultural Analysis of Emotions

Educators typically emphasize conveying information and facts; rarely have they articulated or modeled the full learning process replete with emotions of confusion, fear, sorrow, apathy, anger, jealousy, pride, and enthusiasm. Because emotions are integral to educational practices such as learning, persuasion, concentrating, and cooperating on projects, it is vital to understand and address them. Understanding emotions requires comprehending both their specific, distinctive qualities (e.g., palpable visceral qualities), and their general psychological features that they share with other psychological phenomena.

- Emotional Competency – Emotion

Emotions are ancient mechanisms that mobilize us to deal quickly with important interpersonal encounters. They have both a primal aspect and a motivational aspect. Emotions act as primal beacons, guiding us along the path of survival.

- Youth Use the Internet for Moderating Emotions.

He found that when kids are stressed they use technology to help moderate their emotions. That is, when kids in his study found themselves under stress, they interacted with technology to both moderate their moods and access social networks. Through the Internet, they accessed entertainment and information and sought “social compensation” through recognition and relationship management.

I hope you also find these references useful to learn about emotions in social networking

Online Sapiens Blog Personality Analysis

I used Typealyzer to find my Online Sapiens blog personality. I analyzed the newest 10 pages of this blog. 80% of the results indicate that the author of this blog is of the type:

INTJ – The Scientist
The long-range thinking and individualistic type. They are especially good at looking at almost anything and figuring out a way of improving it – often with a highly creative and imaginative touch. They are intellectually curious and daring, but might be physically hesitant to try new things.

The Scientists enjoy theoretical work that allows them to use their strong minds and bold creativity. Since they tend to be so abstract and theoretical in their communication they often have a problem communicating their visions to other people and need to learn patience and use concrete examples. Since they are extremely good at concentrating they often have no trouble working alone.

You can learn more About Typealyzer and Psychographics

I found Typeanalyzer via Suifaijohnmak’s Weblog

I would like to learn about your blog personality.