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Thinking out loud

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Well 2014 was another big year of thinking out loud for me, as evidenced by the range of articles that I blogged. I can’t use Facebook. Why I blog. blogging e-learning education educational technology elearning learning thinking out loud TOL' An offer they can’t refuse. The triple-threat scenario. The point of compliance.

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10 hot tips for moocers

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This was certainly the case for some in the EDCMOOC , and I fear I was too dismissive of the issue in my previous blog post. More specifically, use your blog to articulate your learnings from the mooc. I found it helpful to use the discussion forum to post preliminary drafts of my ideas, refine them, then blog them.

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Tips & tricks for self-publishers – Part 4

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I’m no marketing expert, but here are several tactics that I have found fruitful: • Tell all your followers on Facebook, Twitter and other forums. • Create a Facebook page. • If you write a blog, inform your subscribers. • Ask your friends and allies to publish a review.

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Reflections of a mooc unvirgin

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Before I signed up, I had decided to do a mooc because I was blogging about them but had never experienced one for myself. The course was supported by social media groups across several platforms, including Twitter, Google+ and Facebook. In all honesty, I think I would have dropped out if it were any longer.

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Network Theory

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Leaving the obvious ( Facebook ) aside, let’s consider blogs. Individual blogs frequently link to other blogs, creating the network that we call the “blogosphere&#. Should those (relatively) few blogs then be the ones you put into your blogroll?

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Social networking is king

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However, the exponential growth of online platforms such as Facebook and Twitter has taken it to a whole new stratosphere. Everyone knows the stats … Facebook has more than 200 million active users, equivalent to being the 5th largest country in the world. More than 100 million users log on to Facebook at least daily.

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Connectivism and the modern learner

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Recently, I read a blog article about connectivism by Debora Gallo. Recommend news feeds, podcasts, blogs and discussion forums. Use Twitter and Facebook to foster social/professional networking. Soon after, I attended a presentation about m-learning by Jan Herrington, in which she too mentioned connectivism.

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