Upside Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Slideshare – presentation hosting and sharing tool. Skype – instant messaging and VoIP call tool. Wordpress – blogging tool. Some observations: The top 10 is like a who’s who of social and informal learning tools. The complete list has a very strong bias towards social tools.

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Social Networks Survey VoiceThread Tools 259

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

The blog has a personal touch, it is easy to follow, its updates are delivered to participant's RSS reader instantaneously. We used Blogger, the Google blogging tool. The instructor's blog posts were very short - often less than one hundred words. Have you explored social learning enviroments? Any suggestions?

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Learning Environment Case Study Social Learning Environment 141

eLearning Weekly

AUGUST 20, 2008

When he’s not sharing gorgeous travel photos (including pictures of some of the most unique food you’ll ever see), he comes up with gems related to informal learning and educational technology. One of his latest offerings is a chart that outlines a variety of Web 2.0 This is great!

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Web Tools Business Photo 32

Tony Karrer

JUNE 10, 2007

While Tom is right that "Life is my PLE", that doesn't free all of us from understanding how these new tools, techniques, skills, the network, the understanding of who vs. what, etc. has changed learning and in reality how it changes tacit work. Tools are helpful in us finding patterns. I also think that the explosion of Web 2.0

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PWLE PLE Discussion Personal 100

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Alas, we are all babes in the woods of the world wide web. Pre-web, we were accustomed to staying on top of the news by watching television, reading the newspaper, filtering magazines, and subscribing to email lists. Links take me to my blogs, tools, events, clocks, clubs, and communities. This is my usual on-ramp.

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Wiki Pipes Friendfeed Torrent 36