Tony Karrer

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Facebook as a Learning Platform

Tony Karrer

Facebook seems to be coming up everywhere the past few weeks. The most recent, which finally got me to post, was a Stephen Downes post - I'm Majoring in Facebook, How about You? The class has each student creating applications in Facebook and presenting to potential investors. Why is Facebook so hot right now?

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LinkedIn Facebook Twitter - Different Connection Style

Tony Karrer

Interestingly, one of the people who connected to me suggested we might want to do the same on Facebook and Twitter. However, this is not really the case with the way I use Facebook and Twitter. In Facebook, it's much the same. Both Twitter and Facebook really are my CANs and FANs. This really got me thinking.

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eLearning Learning Adds Personalized Subscriptions

Tony Karrer

The system then uses social signals such as those coming from Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, delicious as well as clicks and views. The site will look at your activity on these sites and the content of what you share. Now with personalization it's even better. You can always visit and manually select interests as well.

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eLearning Learning Update

Tony Karrer

I will likely also be asking for help with some curatorial / moderation kinds of activities in the future. It gives me a sense of the tools they talk about. I'm definitely interested in suggestions. If you are interested in participating that way, please let me know via email: akarrer @ techempower.

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New Learning Solutions

Tony Karrer

For example, if you build something that integrates with Facebook, Twitter, etc. If you can integrate with Facebook, Twitter, or similar products and you have some kind of viral aspect, then that could make you more interesting. Or a learning tool that leverages those products to help aggregate activity. eLearning Technology.

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Social Grid Follow-up

Tony Karrer

ranellem : @ tonykarrer I've found old friends via Facebook that have become professional contacts as well. gammill : @ tonykarrer I use facebook for 'normal people' market research and LinkedIn for BD and hiring #tysg annemscott : @ tonykarrer I also use Facebook (comments on status) and Facebook Groups for help.

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Online Learning Course Design

Tony Karrer

In discussing Facebook Learning , certainly if you look at the types of things involved, it will be scattered. Here's how we defined it: Each week we will share new activities that will allow you to explore each of these tools. A person who wanted to more actively explore something could do so and add value to the rest of the group.