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Informal Learning Technology

Tony Karrer

In his post, he really is looking primarily at the University of Manitoba's Connectivism Course that he designed and delivered with George Siemens to 2200 students in Fall 2008 and you can tell that he's busy thinking about the technology behind the Fall 2009 course.

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Opportunity Learning

NuggetHead

The suspense was overwhelming and on Saturday, September 19 he announced he was entering the water at 11:30 AM local time (5:30 AM CST). Wikipedia became my new friend that morning! He spent 10 days in England waiting for just the right winds, water temp, and tides. I was captured. How do the tide waters impact such an event?

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Learning, Knowledge, Navigation, Post-it, Meme, & Masie

Big Dog, Little Dog

The person looking up an acronym was looking up a fact, but the person skimming the Wikipedia article on the 1996 Telecommunications Act was ingesting knowledge, not just facts; she very likely wanted to understand what the Act was about, not get a list of dates and bullet points. The commoditization of knowledge - David Weinberger.

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New Work and New Work Skills

Clark Quinn

By the way, while this story may implicate me as a complete and total nerd on several levels, I must say in my defense that I also was part of a small group that managed to get help from a local fraternity to fill a bathtub full of beer to share with my fellow engineers as well as was able to get to Georgetown for Halloween.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: I Heart My Wiki

Learning Visions

We installed MediaWiki on our local server a couple of weeks ago and Ive been using it to record everything I can for my e-Learning strategy project. Folks I have talked to resist the idea of the wiki -- they think wikipedia, they think "amateurs" trashing your content. And I love it. Bye bye Word. Interview transcripts go in the wiki.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Emerging Technologies in e-Learning

Learning Visions

example: Google Earth + local pizza parlors + your personal photographs on top of that. Learning Objects and Repositories Location-based Technologies Mashups (came from hiphop -- artists would take samples and pieces and put them together into one creative work. On the web = hybrid -- take content from multiple sites and put them into one.

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Tsunami confirms strength and power of digital connections

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

16:05 local No more tsunami action, looks like we are clear 4now. 14:05 local, sad to report that we just found the body of the lost sailor at the end of the Bay. Helping to console his wife and her plans 13:30 local w/ no more empty/filli of the bay so hoping we've seen the last of it. Samoa_Country_map.png ?

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