Week.5 Connectivism

Coming up in Undergraduate school, in the 70’s, resources such as our conventional library was what we used for research. Sometimes, when I’m reminiscing back to the old school days when setting in the library in my small space, chair, desk and at the window, I equate, at least the sense of individuality, with performing online learning studies. Currently, in reflective learning, I enjoy listening to audacity online recordings of my peers when instructed. Well, as stated, the Internet’s http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071212202848AA0qlZ8 public face surface in the 1990’s and grew 100% per year, thereafter. As it is stated, no longer do we have to go to information, but instead information can come to us with the click of a computer mouse, etc. Moreover, the Internet provides so many channels and choices by which to obtain information. Several resources where I go to obtain information via the Internet are from http://waldenu.edu/, http://freeopenu.org/ and http://ruralu.org/. These sites provide educational resources and courseware. Another that can be obtain from the Internet is second-life software https://secure-web32.secondlife.com/my/account/login.php?type=second-life-member&nextpage=/my/support/downloads/.
Digital tools such as *social bookmarking* (keep track of sites and categorizing) http://delicious.com/ and (storing url reference pages) http://google.com/reader are wonderful social software. Snap shots to other relevant blog information and data are enormously available. Questions and research for answers, by means of Google and Yahoo, are retrievable. There is a point of views within the information/connection; allows me to understand a network as an example of an experience. What may count as an experience to one person may not be the same for another.
New knowledge can be gained from google.rss and delicious links, as well as from research on Internet search engine for the many url’s by *key* words, such as find free online education workshops, library on Congress for teachers, favorite ID links respectively. http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/constructivism/index.htmlhttp://www.loc.gov/teachershttp://www.pitt.edu/~poole/onlinelearning.html
I support the central theory of connectivism, because my personal network can be used to sustain/maintain connection to the digital world of information and technology and by providing up-to-date knowledge, information and/or facts. It allows me the ability to connect to others, concepts, perspectives and diversity of opinions. It is diversified and has complexity in learning and of its information.