connectivism

HIST1900 @Carleton U Winter 2023 with Shawn Graham - The History of the Internet - Dr Shawn Graham ( @electricarchaeo@scholar.social ) runs a course on the history of the internet that takes, in his words, an “archaeological” approach to its subject. Visible from outside the course, and the thing that caught my interest, is his Connectivist approach with Students using Obsidian and Github to maintain notes, and publishing at least part of their work using a pre-configured MkDocs and Github Pages setup with a template repository. #

For two years now I’ve read all my previous posts - Ton finds his habit of revisiting “on this day” posts and his mature note-making habit have some interesting synergies: This morning I was reading a blogpost from a few years ago, and immediately two things stood out as concepts. They were just mentioned passingly in the blogpost, but this time they seemed more meaningful than their place in the original text suggested. Off I went down a little rabbithole, writing both notions up and connecting them to the current things that make them stand out to me now, and incorporating other references. #