#EDMOOC
Right now I feel like I'm a kid in a playpen surrounded by toys. The playpen? The Coursera course structure. Keeps me off the streets and gives appropriate boundaries.

The toys? This blog for one--I'm looking forward to how the faculty will mash us bloggers all together in the News while still communicating the fresh new ideas being shared by bloggers, and still making some sense of it all!

I greatly enjoyed being part of the Hangout, and would like to learn from the faculty how it was set up to have so many people able to tune in at the same time. It seems to me that Google Hangout was limited to 10, so what is the secret? Please tell me more. . .  .?

The discussion groups brought forward a fascinating mix of thoughts from people all over the world--what a great reminder of the international possibilities of learning right now. Still, how will faculty deal with having to 'slow down' or 'quit waving your hands'? Has anyone been working on integrating simultaneous translation into other languages?

Thanks to help from others, I am now unsubscribed from week 1 responses to faculty questions, and am ready for the onslaught of week 2. Have just started to view the clips.

I have been thinking and rethinking my own program that I am revising from on-ground only to blended learning, and one insight came out of the fact that some participants here have been interacting for months. Although I was feeling quite a bit left out of the early organizing and grouping (cliques forming!), it did make me realize that pre-course participant interaction would be quite additive to the program I am designing.

This could include introducing oneself and perhaps posting a photo on a blog, pre-reading and discussion group questions, plus other e-learning tools that will help set the scene, ensuring that everyone is on board and helping them get a running start on shared learning.