Heidi Trotta

Connectivism and Connective Knowledge - CCK08 explores distributed learning in today’s networked world, offering us perhaps the best glimpse of how knowledge sharing and building can be leveraged for teaching and learning in the years to come using learning networks. This course, facilitated by Stephen Downes and George Siemens, is offered for credit out of […]

I am always finding things I want to explore and learn.  I wish I just had the personal funds to make them come true.  One such topic that has always facinated me was graphic recording.  I first saw this at an NMC Regional Conference where Rachel Smith was “drawing” a conversation on a white board.  […]

One of my favorite books that I read at Columbia was Linked:  How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means by Barabasi.  I read this book for a course in Social Software that I took when blogs and wikis were just beginning to be popular.  In looking back, I am amazed how social software has evolved […]

This site enables you to use special effects to customize your photos and then upload directly to FLICKR.  Thanks again Angela!
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/
(I just have to do this paper!    ) 
 

Why is it when I am trying to do one thing, like write my research paper for my class at Columbia on Avatar Formation, that I come across the greatest stuff? 
One researcher’s blog I religiously follow is Angela Thomas out of the University of Sydney.  I found this amazing, addicting web site on her FLICKR accout that […]