1. Connections and Conversations: What happens to content?
George Siemens
WIAOC 2007

2. "Networks are the language of our times, but our institutions are not programmed to understand them.“
McCarthy, Miller, & Skidmore

3. Moving into ambiguity…
We are in a cycle of extreme, ongoing, sustained change

4. "The chief cause of problems is solutions."
Eric Sevareid

5. The participants
Content
Institution
Educator
Learner

6. Parallel to the music, radio, news, TV
Content
Resource creator
Distributor/marketer/promoter
Person viewing/listening the resource

7. Content Trends Authority shift UGC Collective
Cycle disruption: Creation, Distribution, Discussion

8. What is content?

9. What is conversation?

10. What is a connection?

11. “Hell is the place where nothing connects”
TS Eliot

12. Networks hold (are) knowledge
The presence of “c” changes the meaning of “a” and “b”

13. Understanding is a function of nature of connections
Components + interactions=emergence (Olaf Sporns)

18. http://missgriffis.wordpress.com/ - Glenbow Museum

21. Not all content is created equal
Conceptual
Expression of conceptual
Information/research
Entertainment
Factors: $$ and Expertise

22. Seeking Balance Gradients & nuances Varying presence of participant
Formal vs informal
Expert vs amateur

23. Type of content
Life of content type