This video is being posted as a “warm-up” to the following post, “What does the network mean to you?”

George Siemens explaining that the network is the learning.

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George Siemens

http://www.elearnspace.org

Associate Director, Research and Development
Learning Technologies Centre

George Siemens, is an Associate Director with the Learning Technologies Centre at University of Manitoba and author of Knowing Knowledge, an exploration of how the context and characteristics of knowledge have changed, and what it means to organizations today. George is also Founder and President of Complexive Systems Inc., a learning lab focused on assisting organizations develop integrated learning structures to meet the needs of global strategy execution.

Questions? Please contact George Siemens at george_siemens@umanitoba.ca.

A true story…

How precious you are. I have been watching you in my garden since I first saw you, neck outstretched with beak opened to the Mexican sun. Now it seems you are ready to fly… teetering on the edge of your nest looking toward the sky. How did you come so far, in so little time it seems?

You really alarmed me little colibrí when your mother did not return to her nest to warm you during the chill of night. I didn’t know what to do. I knew it was too late for her to return, much too dark to fly in the blackness of night. And, I had already stepped in once when your nest and you and your sibling fell to the ground. But now what to do? What do you drink and eat? Do I need to cover you at night? The season is unusually cold. Will you survive without your mom? It has now been several days, and she no longer returns at night to protect you. Did she abandon you, little hummingbird, because I had touched you and your nest? Was my well-intentioned intervention wrong? Did I do harm? I didn’t want to. I only wanted you to fly, to live.

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