degrees of separation
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This is a presentation I did as part of a TeachMeet@PLANE on the 25th of July, 2012. I talk about why I find it essential in having a Personal Learning Network (PLN) for the work that I do. Make sure you look at the presenters notes, in order to make some sense of it all.TRANSCRIPT
Degrees of Separation
Brendan Jones@jonesytheteacherErina High School
Bacon
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo by Patent and the Pantry: http://flickr.com/photos/26412869@N03/4283958678/
Kevin Bacon
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by sagindie: http://flickr.com/photos/sagindie/392416159/
Six degrees of Kevin Bacon
(tech version)http://goo.gl/OMSiO
To play the original versionhttp://oracleofbacon.org/
Degrees of Separation is underpinned by some intriguing premises
The Small World phenomenon - human society is a small world type network characterized by short path lengths
Six degrees of separation: Artistic visualization. By Laurens van Lieshout (User:LaurensvanLieshout) (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons
*PLN’s do that – make the world smaller*
Why Kevin, specifically?
It is suggested that Bacon connects to many actors because he acts in many different kinds of roles and ensemble films
Hmmm ….
My Degrees of Separation - old school
Time?
Where?
Cost?
When?
What?
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My Degrees of Separation.. now
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What?When?Where?
Cost?Time?
My connection to Kevin?
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Image via http://goo.gl/UHQ2n
Via My Space
Via The Oracle of Bacon
I worked with Shane!
Finito