Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out

Last night was the first Make with Me live Hangout session for this year’s Making Learning Connected MOOC (Massive Open Online Collaboration), and it was such fun to talk about the CLMOOC and various Make projects, and to focus in the huge wealth of introductions and engagement that folks are involved in already.

The title to my post is a reference to the concepts of Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out that forms the underlying nature of Connected Learning, where research indicated young people’s interactions with technology seemed to fall within some general ways of thinking. HOMAGO is often how it is referred to in some Connected Learning circles. It comes from this book by Mimi Ito and others.

Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out

Mimi Ito explains …

Come join us. You’re always right on time. Come geek out with us.

Peace (in the mooc),
Kevin

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