This document provides an overview of connectivism and the concept of "being there" in unevenly distributed networks and futures. It discusses concepts like expertise residing in networks rather than individuals, attributes of technologies like Twitter that facilitate connection and coordination, and implications for learning and collaboration across networks and platforms like Second Life. Throughout the document are references to various emerging technologies, platforms, examples, and principles of connectivism.

1. Being There in the unevenly distributed future Alan Levine The New Media Consortium

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4. disclaimer cc licensed Flickr photo by Adam Melancon

6. Start With The #*@% Demo! cc licensed Flickr photo by silentvale photos

7. Facing the Future… cc licensed Flickr photo by Eisenvater

8. Or Facing the Future? Flickr photo by Jon Pawley

9. Expert-iness

10. Trust and Truth

11. Standup and Shout cropped cc licensed flickr photo by Guy James I Don’t Have to be a technology expert!

12. How does it feel? cc Licensed flickr photo by carf

13. We are the network cc Licensed flickr photo by carf Expertise is in our networks

14. gapingvoid cartoon by Hugh MacLeod

15. Connectivism

16. Connectivism

17. what if?

18. Let’s Start with a Dumb Statement cc licensed Flickr photo by me

19. the internet is really big cc licensed Flickr photo by Foxicat Me at the Grand Canyon, Monday

20. Google Stopped Counting modified from cc licensed Flickr photo by pacek

21. Technorati: Blog Growth Technorati State of the Live Web, April 2007 1.4 bps 1.5M ppd 17 pps

22. Measure By Daffodils March 23, 2007: cc licensed flickr photo by cogdog (me!)

23. Seeing Networks cc Licensed flickr photo by dogfaceboy 18,000,000 facebook users! 44,000,000 90% of US college students have Facebook accounts, and half of them login every day. 11.4 million, or 33% of the Canadian population, has joined Facebook as of June 2007 Facebook’s Australian population grew by 80% in June 2007

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25. All of This for Everyone? cc Licensed flickr photo by kk+

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28. What I Learned from Johnny Cash

29. Advice Has A Shelf Life

30. The Dumbest Thing I’ve Heard of…

31. The Twitter Life Cycle CogDogBlog Apr 26, 2007

34. Really Interesting

35. How Twitter Creates a Social Sixth Sense Twitter and other constant-contact media create social proprioception. They give a group of people a sense of itself, making possible weird, fascinating feats of coordination. -- Clive Thomson, Wired June 2007 cc Licensed flickr photo by smallandround

36. Lessons Learned

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38. Blaming Technology for Content cc Licensed flickr photo by Daniel Light

39. What you see… • Inane babbling What it affords • web+mobile ???? cc Licensed flickr photo by Cati Kaoe

41. Silly Cats

42. Did You Ever Think There is a Community For… cc Licensed flickr photo by me! Vegafitti Flickr Pool

43. “I Like To Watch”

44. Being Anywhere

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47. And now for something completely different… but not so different

52. “Being” in Second Life NMC Campus Observer July 4 2006 Space Shuttle Lift Off

53. Theater Workshop NMC Campus Observer Second Life Theater Workshop

54. Gathering in SL NMC Campus

55. Too Much?

56. SNF

57. On “Keeping Ahead” Gardner Campbell, University of Mary Washington Vidya Ananthanarayanan , Trinity University Philip Long, MIT George Siemens, University of Manitoba

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59. Sense of Play cc licensed flickr photo by silentvale photos

60. Everyone’s Favorite Subject cc licensed flickr photo by Kevin Yezblick

61. May Not Know / See / Like Audience cc licensed flickr photo by Jeremy et al

62. Mistakes OK cc licensed flickr photo by mcmrbt “ If it drops, pick it up”

63. Document, Leave Tracks cc licensed flickr photo by icatus

64. Just Bring People Together cc licensed flickr photo by Farhang

66. Facing the Future… cc licensed Flickr photo by Eisenvater

67. Or Facing the Future? Flickr photo by Jon Pawley

68. Long Tail From photo of my friend Harry

69. I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else -- Winston Churchill cc licensed Flickr photo by otherthings

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71. iGeneration: We are Part of It iGeneration Fan YouTube Video by mrobe05