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Transferring from Ning to Grou.ps

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

The Internet Time Community has been hosted on Ning for a little over three years. We’ve experimented with features, swapped ideas, kept track of one another, and so forth. I was shocked and saddened when Ning announced that its free service was ending. Lots of non-profits had signed up on Ning. Exploring the Grou.ps

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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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1st update on 10 Tools Challenge 2013

Jane Hart

It has been good to see the varied interest in the 10 Tools Challenge both on my blog and Twitter as well as on other social channels – so here are a few updates. If you are taking the challenge and would like your blog to be added to the list, just leave a comment below or on the previous post. BLOGGING & WIKI TOOLS.

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TCC09 Keynote: Global Collaboration in the Web 2.0 World

Experiencing eLearning

Global collaboration can be very small; can just be one teacher and one class with blogs or Skype. With blogs, move students from passive lurking on a class blog –> blog comments first. Examples: student blogging project , 10 weeks with a challenge to push students more each week. Communicate = Ning.

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Various ways to use social media as a facilitator or trainer

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Ning or LinkedIn group) to start exchanging online related to the topics of the trajectory. (3) Social media encourage networking, sharing ideas and experiences, collaborate and hence connect so well with this vision. His blog post is worth a read. Online Learning Network : You want to help people blog. conversations?

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LearnTrends: Personal Knowledge Management

Experiencing eLearning

These are my live blogged notes from Harold Jarche’s LearnTrends session on Personal Knowledge Management. Idea from Will Richardson: what do you do when you read a blog post and come across an interesting few sentences? Makes it explicit by posting to his blog. My side comments are in italics. Too much information.