{"id":691,"date":"2018-08-23T23:32:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T23:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/?p=691"},"modified":"2018-08-23T19:34:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T19:34:39","slug":"elearning-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/elearning-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying something that isn&#8217;t WordPress for E-Learning 3.0"},"content":{"rendered":"[quote style=&#8221;default&#8221; cite=&#8221;Stephen Downes&#8221;]You&#8217;re not designing a website. You&#8217;re designing a web.[\/quote]\n<p>(I have this written on a post-it on my monitor, but I can&#8217;t seem to figure out where I first heard it at the time of writing this post)<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t start my M.Ed program until summer 2011, which was where I first learned about Connectivism and Connected Learning, years after CCK08 had been offered. The term MOOC was new to me, and I started hearing about Stephen Downes, George Siemens, and David Cormier. A little later in the program I first heard of DS106 and was introduced to more people doing really interesting things in ed tech namely Alan Levine, and Jim Groom.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully I had been introduced to the ideas put forward by these educator-technologists by the time 2012 rolled around. But as someone trying to look back at what connectivist courses looked like early on I found imagining the format difficult. xMOOCs were easy to image, as they just replicated the LMS based designs we&#8217;ve all become accustomed to. I participated in at least one C leaning open course, ETMOOC, facilitated by Alec Couros in 2013. It used a WordPress site as a hub, where mostly I watched the guest lectures\/webinars and I also followed the hashtag on Twitter. I hadn&#8217;t really had a chance to participate in an open course that used blog syndication, an assignment bank (like DS106 has), or other distributed course designs. (Thinking about it, that&#8217;s only mostly true. In 2015 I participated for a couple of weeks in <em>The Happening 2: Teaching Machines<\/em> co-hosted by Mike Caulfield and Audrey Watters and the course used a Federated Wiki. This idea still stands out to me as a great way to produce student writing, but it seems to have faded away for the time being).<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why when I saw this tweet the other day I got pretty excited:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I have internal funding and approval to offer a MOOC this fall titled &#8216;e-learning 3.0&#8217; which will cover the next generation of e-learning technologies (*lots* to cover here). I&#8217;ll be using gRSShopper to offer it, and participants can use their own gRSShopper instances to take it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Downes (@Downes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Downes\/status\/1030111268940734464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Cool, a course facilitate by Downes, and using the gRSShopper software I&#8217;ve only just heard about. So I took a look for how I could get my hands on gRSShopper and first thing I come across is the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Downes\/gRSShopper\">GitHub page<\/a>. Scrolling down the page, the first header in the read.me is &#8220;Installation &#8211; works for CPanel on Reclaim Hosting&#8221;. I can&#8217;t think of a more welcoming header, I&#8217;ve got a Reclaim account and have used it to host my WordPress sites mostly. I dabbled with Pressbooks for a little while, but ended up breaking an entire subdomain I had when trying to update it. That&#8217;s ok, I have other ways to use Pressbooks so the time and energy needed to self-host was more than I had at the time anyway. I&#8217;ve also played around with Piwigo based on Jim Luke&#8217;s recommendation, and during one of the Making Sense of Open Education challenges. After Alan Levine&#8217;s #OEextend event, I decided to give Koken a try as well, but haven&#8217;t made it too far yet. Long story short, I&#8217;m willing to try new things, and given the awesome support I&#8217;ve received from Reclaim in the past I&#8217;m not afraid to try things that on the surface appear to be at the edge of my capability.<\/p>\n<p>I got about half way through and was running the server test and the initializer. I found that the server test produced an error &#8211; apparently missing a Perl Module &#8211; and the initializer failed completely. Thanks to Stephen&#8217;s quick replies in GitHub I was able to make some corrections to what I was doing and I managed to get it working.<\/p>\n<p>But then I realized that I had installed it on my main domain, and there was already lots of stuff there, and I don&#8217;t want to make a messy file structure. Ok, delete everything and back to square one. After some thought it seemed setting up a subdomain to host my instance of grsshopper made sense. So I set up the subdomain, and ran into additional problems. Lucky for me I wasn&#8217;t the only one that saw Stephen&#8217;s announcement and made my way to installing grsshopper:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The inimitable <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/timmmmyboy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@timmmmyboy<\/a> playing with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Downes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@downes<\/a>\u2019s gRSShopper at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reclaimvideo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@reclaimvideo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/allthegoodthings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#allthegoodthings<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KFC5I6W40g\">pic.twitter.com\/KFC5I6W40g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim Groom (@jimgroom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimgroom\/status\/1031922125857337345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Reclaim pulled me out of my tailspin yet again with tips and guideance (really, Tim helped me to help myself, a bit like a teach a man to fish kind of scenario and it worked perfectly) and I am now ready for <em>E-Learning 3.0<\/em>. 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