Many universes. Find the key that fits your universe, that feeds and facilitates your learning. This is your “minimum viable university”. We don’t own our learning. Bad. One size fits all? No. Let’s think out loud: how do we find our MVU’s?
Sample #MVU below #clmooc #nwpstudio
I have lots of these MVU’s. I consider Wakelet a platform for MVU’s both private and shared. Here is one I created:
The beauty of a platform like Wakelet is that it is shareable and possible to collaborate on. Or it can be a completely private university with you as a student of one. Of course, the problem is that there is only so much attention to “spend” with others.
I would love to see a shared MVU from Simon or Sheri or Daniel or Wendy or Kevin on almost anything they might care to share. They have so much to offer. I would be happy to share on the general idea of creating and sharing MVU’s. In many ways it is something we already do, but I have been pushed by a narrative I am seeing that some are calling “the lone broke male” narrative. Maybe lone broke males need to be able to share what they know or want to know through their own minimally viable universities. Creating low to no cost, social, and constructive spaces–maybe it is a step in some direction.
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Yes! A “minimum viable university”– you know that this entire year I’ve taken the daily doodles, my daily poems, or the Daily Create as a learning expedition to learn art, express some mini-memories, and learn more about the world. I add these tidbits of life into many of my posts. I’ve links under CLmooc menu to each of these. So, a learning journey is a path that I take time for, but perhaps that’s part of being an introvert, and a solution to that “lonely man” character you’ve mentioned. https://askwhatelse.blog/ Learning is our earthly adventure. 🙂
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We live in a multiverse– complex, unpredictable, and messy like an overgrown fencerow. What I am trying to do is to raise your and my own awareness and stay alive to the one fact–life is learning. Your doodles, my Wakelets. Let’s keep on!
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Hi Terry. You’ve built quite a collection on Wakalet. I found this one where you pointed to some of my work. https://wakelet.com/wake/zmq2eHSev46xTpa4rmjQr
Have you written an article describing how you are building this collection? Do you manually add links and post comments, or is there some automation?
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So glad you found that Wakelet. Some are more thoroughly baked than others. Wakelets are hand made. There is an extension for Wakelet that allows you to right click and bookmark articles and tweets and vids and…most everything. You can also create any number of new Wakelets. For example, say you find an article on male loneliness to save to Wakelet. You decide that you want to explore this topic further so you create a Wakelet and save that article inside it. You might explore some more and find some pdfs or vids to add to that Wakelet topic. Then you think, I might want others to see this and share this. So you decide to add some “connective text” until you have a minimum viable university on the topic. It is embeddable. An extraordinary platform. Should I do more–write a series of posts? Would you read them?
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I’ve probably pointed you to the blog where I show work interns did with me from 2005-2015. I probably never pointed you to the blog we hosted for the teen mentoring program I led up till 2011. You can see that at Cabriniblog.blogspot.com
In both groups I was trying to motivate our teens, interns and volunteers to dig into the Tutor/Mentor Connection web library, then share what they were learning via a video, ppt, animation or some other format. Here’s an article where I describe this as a “web quest”. https://michaelcnt.blogspot.com/2017/03/take-learning-journey-through.html
I mention this because one way to share what’s in different sections of my library is by creating Wakelet pages like you’ve done. While I could do that my goal is that others, thousands of others, are digging into the library and sharing what’s there.
Of course, there’s a major problem right now. The library site is infected and will be taken off line by Jan 2022. I’m trying to figure out a way to move the data to another place. I’ve already moved the Chicago Programs list to https://tutormentorexchange.net/chicago-area-program-links
This information could also be shared via Wakelets.
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Web Quest = Wakelet
One of the beauties of Wakelet is that you can gather information and make it public or private. You can make sense of and curate the information within the Wakelet, adding many different kinds of media. And you can share the Wakelet. Seek-sense-share: triple threat baby!