These slides were used during a brief use case presented to the Open Education Workshop 2008 at Macquarie University. The talk covered an overview of "Connectivism and Connective Knowledge", a 12-week course run out of the University of Manitoba, my experiences as a student of the course and a quick discussion of some of the tools used by the other students. Unfortunately with only 5 minutes alotted for the entire talk I couldn't go into much depth. We were also told to limit our visuals to under 3 slides. (As you can see I even broke the rules and used 3. ) I'm hoping for an opportunity to go into more depth in subsequent presentations, because the course deserves ample attention to be understood and fully appreciated. In that sense I hope this will provide the basis for further discussion.

1. Connectivism & Connective Knowledge
A Massive, Open, Online Course (MOOC)
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/Connectivism
“This course will be a different type of learning experience.”
Mode: Fully Online
Students: 2,152 formal & informal enrollments
Facilitators: George Siemens & Stephen Downes
Model: Distributed/Networked Learning
Mike Bogle
eLearning Research Officer
Learning & Teaching @ UNSW
Email: m.bogle@unsw.edu.au
Blog: http://techticker.net

2. My Personal Learning Environment
● Enrolled informally
● WordPress Blog for reflection, research, hub for activities
● Commenting, trackbacks for asynchronous discussion
● Tagging/folksonomy to facilitate browsing and searching
● Twitter for resource sharing, support, and communication
● Elluminate for formal course meetings
● Skype, SecondLife for informal synchronous discussions
● LTCWiki, “The Daily” for assignments, course materials
● Google Reader, Alerts for content location, syndication
● Slideshare, Google Docs for presentations
● Flickr for image hosting and sharing
● Creative Commons for licensing and reuse
● Blip.TV, YouTube for video lectures, sharing and viewing

3. Poll Responses: How do you engage?
http://tinyurl.com/toolcloud