Comments on: Defining "Creepy Treehouse"

By: Why Ewan McIntosh is wrong. | dougbelshaw.com/blog

Why Ewan McIntosh is wrong. | dougbelshaw.com/blog — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:28:06 +0000

[...] Open Source Software. Designing our own tools and learning spaces can often lead to the creation of ‘creepy treehouses’, stripped-down versions of what’s available elsewhere and clunky [...]

By: Wikis, blogs, and social networks oh my! « LI840 – Structure and Organization of Information Technology

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:02:20 +0000

[...] treehouse.” Jameson gave us this link to a blog entry that attempts to explain the term: http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/2008/04/09/defining-creepy-tree-house/ If I understand it correctly, “creepy treehouse” is when adults try to create a place for kids [...]

By: Friendly Treehouses (AHEA) « PrattleNog

Friendly Treehouses (AHEA) « PrattleNog — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:29:38 +0000

[...] Defining Creepy Treehouses [...]

By: Insidious pedagogy

Insidious pedagogy — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:26:20 +0000

[...] social media and constructivist approaches choose to use open systems and avoid what the creepy tree house [...]

By: Welcome to SiSpace « Frances Bell at Sispace

Welcome to SiSpace « Frances Bell at Sispace — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:15:55 +0000

[...] what you were doing on Saturday night. This phenomenon has elsewhere been described as the “Creepy Tree House Effect” . What do you [...]

By: Convivial Learning in a Tangled World : John Connell: The Blog

Convivial Learning in a Tangled World : John Connell: The Blog — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:15:15 +0000

[...] idea of the Creepy Treehouse came, for me at least, from Chris Lott, and was taken up by Jared Stein – some interesting discussion of the notion took place on my blog at Get Out of the Creepy [...]

By: Qs on Attitudes Toward Institutional v. Informal Learning systems « learn.5tein.com

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:07:09 +0000

[...] their own (even if only to meet a course requirement). This, of course, led me back to the idea of “creepy treehouses” (A term I have consciously avoided over the past year), and set me to rethink the survey to ask [...]

By: There’s Good eLearning and there’s Bad eLearning: how do we tell one from the other? : John Connell: The Blog

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:00:08 +0000

[...] Design Services at Utah Valley University, picked up on Lott’s coinage and offered some dictionary-type definitions for it, amongst them these two: ‘n. Any institutionally-created, operated or controlled [...]

By: The Teacher List » Are you building a educational creepy treehouse?

The Teacher List » Are you building a educational creepy treehouse? — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:37:25 +0000

[...] I laughed at the question when I first heard it last spring, but then I took a closer look at this trend in education. Although, there is a broad interpretation of creepy treehouse (how children are lured to online environments), the specific educational application is described in this article from Flexknowlogy as “creepy treehouse is what a professor can create by requiring his students to interact with him on a medium other than the class room tools. [E.g.] requiring students to follow him/her on peer networking sites such as Twitter or FaceBook.” So, how many of us are nailing scrapwood together these days for our classes? How many of our schools and districts and universities are forging their best intentions that result in a CTH…? – The URL: http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/2008/04/09/defining-creepy-tree-house/ [...]

By: Creepy Treehouse Effect – How do we social network in Higher Ed? « Purdue eTech

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:57:17 +0000

[...] “Creepy treehouse is what a professor can create by requiring his students to interact with him on a medium other than the class room tools. [E.g.] requiring students to follow him/her on peer networking sites such as Twitter or Facebook.” – excerpt via Mr. Jared Stein – Flexknowlogy [...]