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Blogging in a Walled Garden

Experiencing eLearning

One of the features of Sakai that our team was looking for in a new LMS is a blogging tool. I admit some significant improvements in usability are possible in this tool. However, it does give us the option of blogging within the system. So how do you use a blog effectively when it’s housed within a walled garden?

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Brandon Hall Network - Nicely Done?

Tony Karrer

I just saw a post by Mark Oehlert - The Brandon Hall Network - nicely done who said: The functionality set looks good. So congrats on a nicely designed, functional network! Maybe I'm in a grumpy mood because Brandon Hall got rid of their Yahoo Discussion Groups to provide this network.

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Top 100 Tools For Learning 2010 – C4LPT Survey

Upside Learning

Delicious – social bookmarking tool. Slideshare – presentation hosting and sharing tool. Skype – instant messaging and VoIP call tool. Wordpress – blogging tool. Facebook – social networking site. Some observations: The top 10 is like a who’s who of social and informal learning tools.

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Sharpest tools in the box

Learning with e's

Here are my 8 essential tools: 1) Twitter, because as I recently said in a YouTube video , it is immediate, social and personal. It connects me to my personal learning network (PLN) and is simple to use. I have an old, faithful laptop called Keith, which is now sadly in retirement, but still used occasionally to write a blog post.

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RSC Moodle Roundtable

Moodle Journal

For my own part in the day I brought along the work that I had been conducting on eLearning, much publicised on this blog, but I did take the opportunity to promote Wimba Create, which I think went down very positively. If you have used the tool, please feel free to comment A blogging tool new to me anyway was Posterous.

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Backchannels – what’s all the fuss, anyway?

Integrated Learnings

While there, I engaged in a practice I had never before used known as a backchannel, via the well known micro blogging tool Twitter. It is different from a traditional blog in that it is exactly what the title infers – micro. But guess what? Have any of you had experience using one in your learning events or other presentations?

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Keeping Up - April's Big Question

eLearning Cyclops

For me it is a blog community and following many experts on Twitter. Not only am I often made aware of new tools, but also get opinions, tips, and examples of their use. You can never keep up with it all, but access to many experts who are also finding and sharing the lastest tech tools make it much less daunting.