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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

The information aggregation tools are used to collect and organize information from various resources (websites, podcasts, blogs). RSS (really simple syndication) readers and social bookmarking are two popular information aggregation tools. Social bookmarking tools (i.e., Social Media Connection.

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

The information aggregation tools are used to collect and organize information from various resources (websites, podcasts, blogs). RSS (really simple syndication) readers and social bookmarking are two popular information aggregation tools. Social bookmarking tools (i.e., Social Media Connection.

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Facebook Platform

Tony Karrer

Stephen Downes picked up my post on Facebook As a Learning Platform. He commented: To be clear, I do not think that Facebook itself is really a learning environment. All of that said, Facebook is surprising me in terms of how well it works as a platform. and Multiple Social Networks. Great example, Luis.

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Presentation to Research Working Group on Multigenerational Knowledge Transfer

Kapp Notes

Here are some links to blog postings I've done related to the topic and other related links. Blog Posting Books to Consider Reading for the Gamer/Boomer Knowledge Gap Hard Sell: Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning Brain Drain: Where in the World is Everybody Going?

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Top 100 Tools For Learning 2010 – C4LPT Survey

Upside Learning

Delicious – social bookmarking tool. Wordpress – blogging tool. Facebooksocial networking site. Some observations: The top 10 is like a who’s who of social and informal learning tools. YouTube – video hosting and sharing tool. GoogleDocs – online collaboration tool. Google Reader – RSS feed reader.

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Top eLearning Posts

Tony Karrer

Given the nomination , I'm not sure how much new traffic will come to check out this blog, but I know that it's always hard to come to a blog and get a sense of what the person talks about. Based on my Aha Moment - del.icio.us That's because I started including pages based on number of del.icio.us See another sort below.

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Some Tools for Social Learning and How they Help Learning

Kapp Notes

The term comes from “web log” which is shortened to “blog.” A blog will allow others to comment on the blog entries but not alter the original entry in any way. Social Bookmarking. Older versions are archived. Good for group authored ebooks or collaborative projects. Short Text Messaging. Broadcasting thoughts.