Tom Haskins described an intriguing process taxonomy that meshes well with my own edu-blogging typology and the transformative blogging process.His connective process taxonomy fills in some gaps and describes some of the transitional steps between the different edu-blogging types.1. Repellant – common behaviours of private bloggers; arguably, the primary objective is “guarding against the formation of connections”. Glenn’s Notes to Self - interesting implications for facilitators; accounting for defensive, reluctant bloggers resistant to interacting with others; may be basis for emphasizing instructional strategies and assessment strategies that encourage individual participant’s interaction with self and with content from others’ blogs – may be considered “connective learning”. 2. Tentative – transitional or liminal state of private bloggers as they proceed through process of becoming connected with others “by initiating queries, expressing curiosity and more openness to others”. These tentative behaviours increase and strengthen as private bloggers gain confidence with rehearsing the “process of exploring possibilities, getting questions answered, trying out alternatives, and discovering unforeseen options”. Glenn’s Notes to Self - emphasis for facilitating this process could be to provide support and encouragement for transitioning bloggers seeking to develop connections with peers and instructor; - may be considered “engaged learning”3. Conceptual - common behaviours of networked bloggers; committed to rational discourse, and “connected by agreement in principle”. These bloggers are engaged as participants of sustained dialogues, seeking convergent behaviours and concensus, “staying on message together, speaking the same language, sharing the same explanations”. Glenn’s Notes to Self – facilitating learners to begin participating in rational discourse on complex issues involving multiple perspectives, involves cognitive apprenticeship;4. Causal – autonomous bloggers who participate in “parallel conversations” (Siemens, 2008), “connected by commitments” to sustaining conversations. This could be considered a transitional, or liminal state, in which autonomous bloggers become committed networked bloggers among Networks of Practice. Participants are indirectly connected; working independently but also cooperatively, “following a sequence of ideas autonomously, while producing outcomes together, providing input that becomes output, proceeding unilaterally through a chain of events”. Glenn’s Notes to Self – facilitator plays role model; demonstrates best practices for participating as member of several NoPs; explores issues and concerns with learners5. Recursive – embedded bloggers are “committed to conversations that are maintained and connected by cycles”. These bloggers participate jointly in the “process of providing feedback, maintaining reciprocities, balancing exchanges” between participants of sharing community.Glenn’s Notes to Self – facilitator engages learners as performers in joint learning events and creative projects; mentoring and collaborative learning emphasized. (Community of Appreciative Inquiry is representative of this process)6. Synergistic – personal bloggers are “connected by compatibility”, and engaged in the “process of realizing mutual enhancement, generating transformations, and energizing collaborations”. Glenn’s Notes to Self – the emphasis is on cultivating solidarity and mutual support, requires a safe space for sharing of transitional experiences; often transformational in nature. 7. Comprehensive – confessional bloggers are concerned with movement between and within different communities, adapting their roles and refining roles based on experiences of paradoxes. It is this “process of balancing multiple polarities, and realizing the "resolution of dialectics" for each dichotomous polarity/contradiction, involved in pushing past the limiting experiences and “escaping the tyranny of either/or” Glenn’s Notes to Self – self-transforming; involves re-examination and intensive reflection on role in a number of networks; identity-strengthening process

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Tom Haskins (2009)CCK09 Possible Process Taxonomy for Defined Connections http://growchangelearn.blogspot.com/2009/10/cck09-possible-process-taxonomy.html Retrieved October 8, 2009