Moderate

I just wanted to point out that I didn’t realize that I had to approve a reply before it would post in my blog. sorry to all those I didn’t reply to. I just did that today. Notice the reply for Stephen Downes!!

Connectivism

http://www.downes.ca/post/33034

During an earlier blog I asked for help finding an article from Stephen Downes to read and I was presented with this link. I have read most of it (it was rather lengthy) but from what I got from it was what I have always know and have taught in math class. This can be summed up rather quickly and easily by an example: If I draw a picture of a box but I don’t connect the last corner together, meaning I leave a gap can you still tell what it is? Of course, that is the thought process in your mind that always uses patterns and will complete objects that are not complete in order to make sense of them. To me, connectivism is just that. We all connect things in our lives to make sense of things we don’t understand. We are also willing to learn and want to learn thing that we are interested in. The key is to connect to things that you are interested in thus wanting to the learn the subject matter and making it easier to learn and remember.

Blogging my troubles away

I feel like telling all my problems today. Hopefully this will help me to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I have been working, or so I thought, like all the other students in my gaming and distance ed class, but I feel like I have fallen behind. I don’t have any understanding of the final project for either class, and feel like I am procrastinating to much. I usually have all my assignments in early because I don’t like to wait because if problems arise, I like to have time to fix them, but if you don’t know what you are doing procrastination works well. I have an assignment due today in gaming, but I can’t seem to get it to email or upload and I am bugging other students for help, but can’t seem to figure it out. Now that isn’t all that is going wrong, I have been looking for a theory article to read from Stephen’s blogs, and was even given that link to it, but I am so computer illiterate I don’t know what to read on that link. i start several of the articles but they don’t seem to have a theory in mind. So if anyone has a exact link to read on please let me know. i have read so many things, I think I will just blog on all of them and hope that I am hitting the question with at least one. Now, I do feel better, but I don’t think that it will help with my assignments, but at least you all know I have been trying, just not succeeding.