Social Media for Trainers is a great book for understanding the ways to leverage social media to extend training beyond the traditional four walls. She starts with a basic description of social media and then covers all the biggies, Twitter, Facebook(online communities), Blogs, and wikis. Instead she continues to describe other tools from Google (Wave and Docs), YouTube, TeacherTube and a half a dozen others. And even though Google Wave is no longer supported, I have a number of students who are using it for group work, so I have found the information useful. MORE >>

The clamour for social and informal learning is getting louder each day if you believe the Internet Time Group. Teams are quick to adopt tools like Media Wiki or Google Sites to create collaborative workspaces. Wikis and cloud computing using platforms like Google Apps are making this almost an out of box exercise. So while email was the cool thing a few decades back, we've moved to wikis and blogs, then the cloud and now Twitter and Google Wave. There's a shift happening and its all around us. But there's a lot changing in the way we think as well. MORE >>

Related posts:5 Easy Tips for Teaching Online Courses Audio + Visual + Apps = Mobile Learning Google Wave is Not Dead (For Learning Anyway). [[ This is a content summary only. Tags: Uncategorized video webcasting elearning online courses Reinforcement Social Learning YouTube YouTube is a fantastic platform you can use to showcase your training videos.  It’s fast, easy, and you can’t argue with the price (free).   You You may be wondering how you can go about making your own videos.  Even those with a low amount [.] MORE >>

Four members of Internet Time Alliance submitted their thoughts to eLearn Magazine’s 2010 Predictions. Wave Crests. Google Wave is already set to become a very popular tool this year, and I think it represents the way that tools are going to evolve in the near future, that is that the social functionality found in standalone tools is going to merge and become amalgamated into more integrated “learning&# tools. Jane Hart, social learning consultant at Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies. Move It or Lose It. Break Out! MORE >>

I 'm now attending the Elearning Guild webinar on 'Social Media in e-Learning: Ur Doin' It Right' The speakers are: Mark Oehlert , Defense Acquisition University Koreen Olbrish ,Tandem Learning Here's the guild's intro to the session: "Organizations looking for ways to capitalize on the potential of social media, and wanting to leverage it for learning, often don't know where to start, or how other companies have successfully incorporated social media for learning. Participants will get great case-study examples of successful social media integrations for learning. MORE >>