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I am the person enjoy eating. but soesn't metter how much I ate,I don't put weight on;

I like watching Tv and play with my children, It's that a interesting facts? 

What do students need to be learning today? 

 How do they need to be learning it?

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While conversation may indeed be king, meaningful conversation requires that we check to see whether the king is wearing any clothes.

In my research on using social or participatory media applications to support substantive educator knowledge development, it is clear conversation or professional talk is a powerful element or factor that can lead to deeper knowledge and understanding of one's practice (Hargreaves, A., 1994).

In my initial examination of participant posts and comments within an online professional learning community designed to support knowledge building among geographically separated participants, I have noticed that conversations fall into two general categories with some occasional subtle overlappings. In general conversations in the online learning community fall into two types: thin and thick.

Thin conversations are those that provide little in terms of reflection, feedback,  expansion and or examination of the initial ideas presented. Thin conversations suggest the emperor is threadbare and thus offers no redeeming substance or value (i.e., the conversation is powerless).

Thick conversations offer not only the thoughts and ideas of the participant but they build and expand upon thoughts shared from the initial post. Thick conversations also provide a sense of deeper reflection and emotional cues that offer insight into the participant's sense of self. Thick conversations are not necessarily verbose; they can be short, triggering statements that lend themselves to deeper reflection and deeper contemplation. Thick conversations are the robes and raiment that make conversation king.

In my initial analysis, where these two categories overlap is where conversation may be thin, but attached resources and artifacts associated with the thin conversation are thick and rich. There are multiple examples within my study that show participants offering little in terms of content-rich, back-and-forth dialogue and conversation, yet attach multiple rich resources or artifacts to their post that serve all participants in the community exceedingly well. The conversation is thin, but the knowledge and value associated with the post appears to outweigh the apparent veneer.

Perhaps, this requires a clearer definition of what conversation in a social media supported environment affords participants. Clearly, meaningful dialogue and written exchange can be valuable to knowledge development. Yet conversation can also trigger references to artifacts outside the immediate conversation that can also provide additional meaning and value. Given that the platform being used to serve and support conversation in this instance also allows the exchange of physical artifacts, conversations can be thin in initial substance and thick with associated attached resources.

Hmmmm....

Your thoughts and feedback are clearly warranted!

Reference:
Hargreaves, A. (1994). Changing teachers, changing times: Teachers' work and culture in the post-modern age. New York: Teachers College Press.

Hello,

Do you believe that Egypt discovered scotland?!!! Well, listen to this interview with Mohammed Alfayed telling about this. It's interesting, right?

This audio can be used in our classrooms, you know it is authentic, motivating and close to the students interests. It is also one important feature of using the ICT with our learners.

Here is the link, I'll be waiting for your feedback

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7400000/newsid_7407000/7407001.stm?bw=nb&mp=wm&news=1&nol_storyid=7407001&bbcws=1

http://under-linux.org/forums/mikrotik/112728-mikrotik-e-raios

You can earn  two (2) points again by contributing a quiz question with a valid answer and a reference page number. The topics will be those in Chapters 11-14 of Wertime and Fenwick and the deadline for earning points is Monday 11 August.

There are two conditons this time. First, the question pertains to a chapter other than what your group reportd on. Second, the question must be a mutiple choice qustion with at least four (4)  choices.

Good luck! 

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Ils sont grévistes de la faim depuis 17 jours (!), certains sont déjàa dans le coma

… et le ministre ne veut toujours pas entendre parler de ce problème des contractuels ….

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