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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 readers allow educators to rapidly skim through hundreds of blog posts and articles to find the most relevant information to their practice. Edmodo and Ning are gaining popularity with educators.

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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 readers allow educators to rapidly skim through hundreds of blog posts and articles to find the most relevant information to their practice. Edmodo and Ning are gaining popularity with educators.

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Top 68 eLearning Posts from April - Hot Topics iPad Google Buzz

eLearning Learning Posts

If you’ve followed this blog long enough, you’ll know that I am big on presentation skills. Here Are More Than 200 Free Rapid E-Learning Tutorials - Rapid eLearning Blog , April 20, 2010 A few weeks ago I offered some advice on how to become an elearning pro without spending a dime.

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Down But Not Quite Out: what can we learn from the plights of Learning Tree International and Readers Digest?

Performance Learning Productivity

These turbulent economic times have not been kind to two of the large publishers of catalogues and journals - Reader's Digest and Learning Tree International. Despite moving some activity onto the Internet and getting its journalists blogging the company is still struggling. So it's no surprise really.

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Top 125 Workplace eLearning Posts of 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

Top 100 Learning Game Resources - Upside Learning Blog , June 24, 2009. 9 Free Tools That Help Me Build Better E-Learning , Rapid eLearning Blog , May 5, 2009. How to Create Screencasts You Can Be Proud Of , Rapid eLearning Blog , October 13, 2009. Captivate 4 tutorials - Adobe Captivate Blog , April 3, 2009.

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Web 2.0 Applications in Learning

Tony Karrer

There were about 7 examples mentioned including Intuit using a Wiki-like system for customers to ask questions/get advice around taxes, using a group blog with students prior to a formal learning event, the US Army's use of collaboration tools to share best practices in Iraq, and several others. Choose the top 3-5. There were a few others.

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Alternative Use of Video in The Classroom – It’s Not Just for Homework Anymore

TechSmith Camtasia

If you read any professional journals or education publications over the summer break, most of them have written at least one story on this new ideology. Maybe you are a member of the Flipped Learning Ning and follow a group. Guest post by FLN executive director, Kari Arfstrom. Recently, you may have heard about flipped learning.

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