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Downes

  1. I'm in Guelph to speak Sunday at the Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities in Waterloo (Canadian Association of Learned Journals) about 20 hours ago via web
  2. More than 5000 downloads of 'Connectivism and Connective Knowledge' since the launch, thanks world - downes.ca/me/mybooks.htm 9:16 AM May 22nd via web
  3. @dlnorman Wow thanks D'Arcy, posted to eBooks page downes.ca/me/mybooks.htm - added the .doc version of Access::Future & will fix the rest soon. 10:11 AM May 20th via web in reply to dlnorman
  4. @dlnorman The ePub version of CCK looks great in Calibre, thank you - I've posted it on my eBooks page - downes.ca/me/mybooks.htm 6:18 AM May 20th via web in reply to dlnorman
  5. @dlnorman I've uploaded a slightly revised version to correct a couple of formatting errors. 4:48 PM May 19th via web in reply to dlnorman
  6. @dlnorman Yes, you can get a doc or docx version from downes.ca/me/mybooks.htm 4:24 PM May 19th via web in reply to dlnorman
  7. @dlnorman Sur4e, if iBoopks will produce a nice ePub version, that would be great! 4:12 PM May 19th via web in reply to dlnorman
  8. Couldn't get it to convert to ePub so there's no reader version - if you're a publisher and want to publish it, email me - first one gets it 3:34 PM May 19th via web
  9. Well... it's done. 605 pages (you've been warned) PDF. Official announcement Monday. downes.ca/files/Connecti… 3:30 PM May 19th via web
  10. Just back home after a longish session in the dentist's chair *sigh* 12:24 PM May 17th via web
  11. Listening is important - but if you do not speak, people do not know you are listening to them, and will fall silent. 7:46 AM May 17th via web
  12. Slides, MP3 and Elluminate recording from Terry Anderson's #change11 session today are now available: change.mooc.ca/post/705 12:58 PM May 16th via web
  13. Here is the direct link to the #change11 session: sas.elluminate.com/site/external/… 10:55 AM May 16th via web
  14. Our LAST #Change11 session starts in five minutes with Terry Anderson. change.mooc.ca/week35.htm 10:55 AM May 16th via web
  15. We've reached the final week in #Change11 & our final online session will be at 2:00 pm EDT Today with Terry Anderson - change.mooc.ca/week35.htm 6:08 AM May 16th via web
  16. Normally I never send friend requests on social networks, but I got over my fear of rejection long enough to send a bunch on LinkedIn today. 8:17 AM May 15th via web
  17. Did my duty and cast my #vote in the #Moncton civic election 9:09 AM May 14th via web
  18. I've just posted a new illustrated transcript for a talk I gave in 2010 on 'Personal Learning Environments' - downes.ca/files/Personal… 8:00 AM May 14th via web
  19. For those who find my list of 1,260 articles daunting, Matthias Melcher has produced a categorized version of the list: downes.ca/articles_categ… 7:30 AM May 10th via web
  20. @aace None of the links on your aace.org website fro E-Learn 2012 (Montreal, Quebec) are working 7:13 AM May 10th via web in reply to aace