The flow of the individual contributions (reflections on the previous week meeting) are aggregated here. Most recent contributions appear on the top. The actual content is not copied here; only a link to the owner's original blog post.
The anatomy of a Hub site: Group process continued online
A central course hub is necessary for creating the supporting infrastructure of the learning rhizome. The central hub aggregates the flow of the individual contributions and makes them available to the whole group. For the “Systems Theory, Psychology and Social Media” course, the central hub is located at http://emergence.edublogs.org
The hub works as a living recording of the group’s history. It constitutes a data story of becoming and a multimodal representation of the collective adventure. The hub is always in constant transformation. New blogs, representing new student cohorts, enter the rhizome every year, and some older blogs may leave the system, as long as their owners stop maintaining them or shut them down.
Circles represent weekly meetings. They learning resources like slides, videos, links, and the critical for the development of a bottom up pedagogy Monday Notes section, a manifestation of the group's collective intelligence.
The Group Reflective Process
The hub aggregator site "created a sense of co-creation with others in that a student could experience the group’s reflective context; a participant could situate his/her own reflection in the group’s wider reflective virtual space by not only interacting with the others in the preceding face-to-face session but also by seeing and experiencing the process of other people’s reflections. Thus, the aggregator web spot was furthering the group work online and fostering a sense of working together in a community of practice to collectively produce a digital artifact. In the described system, the initial meaningful face-to-face session ensured an overall effective blended learning design." (Brailas et al., 2016)
Other rhizomatic-learning hubs for various courses preceeding "Systems Theory, Psychology and Social Media":
https://hub6301.wordpress.com/
https://hub2001.wordpress.com/
https://cybermethods.wordpress.com/
https://icounseling.wordpress.com/
https://eduappreciative.wordpress.com/
https://edumethodology.wordpress.com/
http://cybermethoding.edublogs.org/
http://edumethoding.edublogs.org/
https://icounseling.edublogs.org
Every hub sites implements the technological infrastructure of a learning rhizome.
"However, there is another kind of power, one that is more appropriate for the new paradigm – power as empowerment of others. The ideal structure for exerting this kind of power is not the hierarchy but the network, the central metaphor of the ecological paradigm. In a social network, people are empowered by being connected to the network. Power as empowerment means facilitating this connectedness. The network hubs with the richest connections become centers of power. They connect large numbers of people to the network and are therefore sought out as authorities in various fields. Their authority allows these centers to empower people by connecting more of the network to itself." (Capra & Luisi, 2014, p. 14)