Justin M. Bonzo http://justinbonzo.com/blog Connecting the dots... Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:45:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Request for participants http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=179 http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=179#comments Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:45:54 +0000 justinbonzo http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=179 So, I’ve done it….  I’ve issued my request for research participants in the form of a webpage.  Sort of like ‘build it and (hope) they will come’.

If you are involved with intructional technology in any way and are interested in participating in a short interview (Skype or in person), please check out the link below.  Likewise, [...]

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]]> http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=179 0 Ponderings on ecosystems, collaborations, the future and all the blank spaces in between http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=171 http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=171#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 02:24:30 +0000 justinbonzo http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=171

Once again it has been a bit of time since I last posted.  I’ve been focusing on work for the past month, but have continued to think about my thesis topic.  It seems that my thesis topic has found it’s way into my everyday consciousness.  I guess this is a good thing.  I’ll take this to [...]

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]]> http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=171 2 Transformational magazine reading… http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=164 http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=164#comments Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:00:05 +0000 justinbonzo http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=164 Connecting to paradise

So, here I am in the Canary Islands for some rest and relaxation.  For several weeks prior to leaving on holidays, I stressed myself trying to put together things I would need for PhD work.  I finally decided that I would bring my laptop (which houses 99% of my PhD material) with me, [...]

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]]> http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=164 1 Progress report… http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=154 http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=154#comments Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:27:13 +0000 justinbonzo http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=154 Well, here I am writing for the first time in a very long time.  It isn’t that I haven’t wanted to write, but quite the opposite.  I have get quite a few ideas everyday about things that I would like to write about, but they start piling up and I don’t know where to start.  There [...]

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]]> http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=154 6 Worth it’s weight in gold… http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=152 http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=152#comments Sun, 06 Feb 2011 03:04:19 +0000 justinbonzo http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=152 “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”

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]]> http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=152 3 Stay Tuned http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=144 http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=144#comments Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:10:27 +0000 justinbonzo http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=144 Studious in Madrid

Maintaining a blog with regular updates is difficult. Over the past few months I’ve been busy refining my PhD research proposal and plan. I’ve also been doing a fair amount of travelling (including the US, Singapore, Madrid, South Africa). A new set of posts will be coming from me shortly, [...]

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]]> http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=144 0 Social Media, Transparency and Learning http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=120 http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=120#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:50:22 +0000 justinbonzo http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=120 "We" Vancouver, April 2010

Dalsgaard, C. & Paulsen, M. (2009) Transparency in cooperative online education. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 3 (10), 1-22.

A very good friend and fellow PhD colleague, Jane Davis recommended this article to me.  The title did not initially make a connection for me as to how the content [...]

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]]> http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=120 2 Awareness, Social Presence and Connectedness http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=113 http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=113#comments Sun, 16 May 2010 03:24:46 +0000 justinbonzo http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=113 Connectedness

Part of the reason for starting a webpage and blog was to create an online social presence for myself.  That being said, I had never fully researched what it was to have ‘social presence’.  A quick search led me to a paper written by Ruth Rettie of Kingston University in the U.K.  The title of [...]

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]]> http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=113 4 The Paradox of Social Media and Higher Education Institutions http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=106 http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=106#comments Tue, 11 May 2010 09:48:29 +0000 justinbonzo http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=106 My presentation from our joint symposium at the Networked Learning Conference.  Aalborg, Denmark 2010

The Paradox of Social Media and Higher Education Institutions

View more presentations from Justin Bonzo. Added June 3, 2010: Jo Freeman’s “THE TYRANNY of STRUCTURELESSNESS” seems to have some relevance here.  During my presentation one or the audience members shared some information about Je Freeman, [...]

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]]> http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=106 0 Hard words to live by http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=96 http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=96#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:51:07 +0000 justinbonzo http://justinbonzo.com/blog/?p=96 Hard words to [...]

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