eLearning Learning is a great site to get a snapshot of what people are talking about in the field without being as overwhelming as subscribing to dozens of individual blogs can be. Personally, I do subscribe to many of the blogs featured on this site, but not everything, and I often find little gems that I didn’t see through my other channels. These top posts are selected based on various social signals like tweets, social bookmarks, etc. Questioning social media. Filed under: Blogging , e-Learning. Blogging e-Learning MORE >>

Now that I am using Twitter more frequently, I am bookmarking links on Twitter as favorites. don’t save all the links on del.icio.us. cammybean RT @ eduify The Top 100 Education Blogs  [link] (via @ GarinKilpatrick ) hjarche Gloria Gery: Why don't we weigh them? link] JaneBozarth How to bypass most firewall restrictions [link] arnoldbala How to form a company? - [link] cammybean Tough love for instructional design: [link] hgetson 10 ways to measure social media success.: Is your social media strategy helping your business? How do you know? MORE >>

Today I ran a short session where I shared how I use social media to enhance my learning. I've blogged previous about this topic in the post Social Media for YOUR learning but now I've refined my thinking and developed a better presentation about this I thought I'd share my thinking again. I've started using it as my main bookmarking site. It took a bit of getting used to but its good if you want to group things and is certainly more visually appealing than a normal bookmarking service. However, with bookmarking proper tagging are key. MORE >>

Reading lists, links, online search, unconferences, social networking, social bookmarking, blogs; Role of the teacher/trainer. Tags: Blog To wrap up this series of posts on strategies for learning and performance support, here’s a summary of the characteristics of each. To see the original posts, click on the images above or the column headers below.  . Exposition. Instruction. Guided discovery. Exploration. Examples. Lectures, presentations, policy documents, all types of required reading / viewing / listening. Subject expert. Instructor. Facilitator. MORE >>

It could also apply in an asynchronous context, in which learners collaborate with peers using social networks, social bookmarking or blogging. What’s important here is to smooth the way for learners to find resources and to locate like-minded peers; that means providing repositories, search engines and all manner of social media tools. Tags: Blog In this, the fourth in a series of four posts, we manage the seemingly impossible – we both break the mould and then find we have come full circle. MORE >>