I am going somewhere with this story - so stay with me a minute. I live in Evanston, Illinois - a city just north of Chicago on the shores of Lake Michigan. It's a pretty urban suburb. Lots of restaurants and shops. Home of Northwestern University (where I work). If you live and work here, … Continue reading Hand crafted PLNs
Author: Jeff Merrell
Retired lecturer and administrator at Northwestern University's Master's Program in Learning & Organizational Change.
Personal brand and digital identity. Which I am I? #msloc430 (Updated 12-Feb)
Note: This post was originally published on 25-Jan-2013. I will update it occasionally to reflect comments, themes, my thinking. And to share resources offered by others. Updates will be included at the end of this post. One of the most active discussion threads in my course in the Master's Program in Learning & Organizational Change … Continue reading Personal brand and digital identity. Which I am I? #msloc430 (Updated 12-Feb)
Brave enough to go half-baked
Twice each year I teach a course that depends a great deal on students thinking-out-loud in blog posts and various forms of online discussions. Most of this is conducted in a private community space we use specifically for the course but at times the conversations seeps out into Twitter or Google+. Each time the course … Continue reading Brave enough to go half-baked
Seeing the sense-making dance
"Artefacts without participation do not carry their own meaning; and participation without artefacts is fleeting, unanchored and uncoordinated." - Etienne Wenger in “Communities of Practice and Social Learning Systems: the Career of a Concept” in Social Learning Systems and Communities of Practice, 2010. (Chris Blackmore, ed.). It is the beginning of the third week of … Continue reading Seeing the sense-making dance
Jeff Merrell 