{"id":1192,"date":"2008-09-07T04:01:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T04:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/jennifer-maddrell-connectivism-class-hello\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:04:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:04:34","slug":"jennifer-maddrell-connectivism-class-hello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/jennifer-maddrell-connectivism-class-hello\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Maddrell Connectivism Class &#8220;Hello!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick introductory post for the <a href=\"http:\/\/ltc.umanitoba.ca\/wiki\/Connectivism_Outline\">Connectivism course<\/a>. My name is Jennifer Maddrell and I live across the river from Manhattan in Hoboken, NJ (USA). <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=hoboken,+nj&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;ll=40.800816,-73.99704&amp;spn=0.084175,0.727844&amp;z=11&amp;iwloc=addr&amp;output=embed&amp;s=AARTsJoWZ40BUZPHkz-s5xPfywvMtWnhHQ\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=hoboken,+nj&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;ll=40.800816,-73.99704&amp;spn=0.084175,0.727844&amp;z=11&amp;iwloc=addr&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-align: left;\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>I am currently enrolled in a PhD program in <a href=\"http:\/\/education.odu.edu\/eci\/idt\/prospective\/doctorate.shtml\">Instructional Design &amp; Technology at Old Dominion University<\/a>. I am taking the program as a distance learner, so you could say I am practicing what I will one day teach about the possibilities of distance learning. For the past two years, I have also been a co-host on <a href=\"http:\/\/edtechtalk.com\/taxonomy\/term\/130\">EdTechWeekly<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/edtechtalk.com\/taxonomy\/term\/130\">EdTechTalk.com<\/a> where we conduct a weekly webcast about current happenings in education and technology. <\/p>\n<p>This is my second MOOC, but by far the largest. I also took <a href=\"http:\/\/edtechtalk.com\/taxonomy\/term\/130\">David Wiley&#8217;s Introduction to Open Education<\/a> with many others from across the globe. I had taken that class &quot;for credit&quot;, so it will be interesting to see how my participation varies when I take this class &quot;non-credit&quot;.  Looking forward to &quot;connecting&quot;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick introductory post for the Connectivism course. My name is Jennifer Maddrell and I live across the river from Manhattan in Hoboken, NJ (USA). View Larger Map I am currently enrolled in a PhD program in Instructional Design &amp; Technology at Old Dominion University. I am taking the program as a distance learner,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[302,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cck08","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2964,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/2964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}