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Learning from Your Network: This is How We Are Connected

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Please use this link to populate the class network. Week 2 blog will be posted later this week... --Lukas ====9/3 Updates=== I am thrilled with the commonalities among us (see the pic below)! I knew there is going to be a lot of connections, but I didn't expect a messy network like this even if only two out of 19 knew each other before taking this class. This result is certainly exciting because we have already connected with each other in one way or another. Although what we have shown in class is not technically the real six degrees of separation or the small world effect , it demonstrated how close we are. Think about the online world: people around the world may live in different time zones, speak different languages, and enjoy different food, but we all use the Internet, which helps to bring everybody together. You can now reach out to much more people and get much more information than people who lived in the time without the Internet. But, wait... why? Why bother ...
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Welcome to EME2040 (It is no longer a simple hello world post)

Hello World! It is really the tradition from the programming to say "Hello World!" every time you are starting something new. The phrase does not have much more actual meaning other than a quick test. However, I do want to say "Hello EME2040" as it is now officially a new semester! I've read everyone's posts and I am really impressed by your experience. It is a great group with a very diverse background. We have people who focus on child education, special ed, ed systems and policies, and we have experts in language, geography, social science, etc... Although some of you expressed that you don't have enough exposure to ed techs, I have no worries because (1) the things we are going to cover in this class, I think, are not any rocket science knowledge and (2) Y'all millennials have been engaged with the online world long enough to figure things out pretty easily. As I've said in the class, probably already over ten times, technology per se i...
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