Respect! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNIkWWt_DFc

For the record, I love all you MOOCy-MOOCS.

I think there is difference in atmosphere in ds106 compared to big-M MOOCs even if the latter are intended to be used informally if desired. I’ve sent pre-service and in-service K-12 teachers taking an intro edtech course to check out ds106 because I thought the sense of fun would encourage them to try out just one thing – whatever one thing struck their fancy.

What I see hear meet are lots of folk in education who are just discovering ds106 and this model

Keep on pushing

To the comment “Here is our schedule, all participants are going to do the same thing at the same time”, I think you misunderstand what the Canadians guys are doing. They present a schedule, yes, but there has always been freedom for participants to come and go from it as they please, to participate live or view recordings later (or not at all), to create their discussion threads and tweets and posts and scoops and curations and even some art in there too.

I believe there is as much blood, sweat and tears going into the creation and duration of ds106 as there is for the change/cck moocs, on the part of the facilitators and the participants alike. Share the love! :)

I’d say ds106, picbod and such are a lot nearer to the spirit of the early innovations online and in learning than the MegaMOOCs. Maybe some ideas do get ripped off (tho acknowledged always), but at least somebody’s ripping off the good ideas!