https://github.com/websemantics/journey
Capture your learning journey with the world and connect with awesome people who share your passion.
https://github.com/websemantics/journey
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Capture your learning journey with the world and connect with awesome people who share your passion.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/websemantics/journey
- Owner: websemantics
- Created: 2016-06-02T15:44:26.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2016-09-12T15:51:49.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-17T11:12:06.520Z (10 months ago)
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- Size: 5.86 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
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Share your leaning experince
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> Capture your learning journey with the world and connect with awesome people who share your passion.
# Backstory
I have always been curious about the world and how things work. My day comprises largely of me setting behind my laptop screen writing code, reading and watching videos.
Because of my line of work and the projects I work on, I learn a lot on daily basis either on tech subjects, psychology, biology, physics, astronomy or business. I often desire to share my experiences and sometimes I do on social media (facebook, twitter, etc) but doing so always felt inappropriate and largely goes unnoticed (rightly so).
People on social media are there to, well, talk about daily events and have light conversation. Learning is a gradual process and mostly accumulative and learning experiences can be a hard topic to talk about or attract attention to.
My experience with learning has been consistant for the decades and always felt like a continuous unraveling of a knowledge map of sort. My learning process has patterns, forward and backward links between learnt subjects and byproducts.
Oftentimes people share their learning experiences via blog posts in the format of explaining the subject matter or teaching others.
The aim here is to find a meaningful way to share learning experiences (not the learning itself), new knowledge, skills and discoveries to share with like minded people. I think that will be a kick ass tool.
# The River
It is often helpful to use metaphors and analogies to deliver information. The acquisition of knowledge and how it integrates with past experiences can be complicated to talk about abstractly. Then I thought why not use a metaphone to do so, hence the River.
A river is commonly used metaphor to represent the flow of life. A river can also represent a number of concepts during the learning journey of a person.
Branching streams which later rejoin could represent someone's acquiring knowledge to support whatever they are currently working on, and integrating it back later on.
A river could branch into a dry land turning it green, an analogy of learning a new subject. Ponds and water reservoir can be formed by a river, possibly to represent accumulation and new contributions to knowledge.
A river can form waterfalls which might represent a climax of understanding, a eureka moment or simply conquering a challenge.
# Thoughts
If such a system would exist, one would imagine a way to,
- Measure learning / learning proficiency & speed,
- Spectrum of knowledge covered,
- Suggest relevant subjects (from other users' learning patterns / usage ),
- Build and improve an optimized models of learning,
- Help users with best ways to learn (techniques, tips, tools etc),
- Connect like minded people through shared interests,
Thoughts are welcome,
# Links
- [Like on Git](https://github.com/Idnan/like-on-git), Chrome extension to save links that you like on Github repository that you specify
- [Brain List](https://brainlist.com), Learn how you learn.