Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Google has announced Buzz a new social media service that would be integrated within Gmail. Using Buzz you can connect to the other social media services like Twitter, Picasa, Flickr and Google reader. More information on how we might use it in elearning can be found in this post on our blog. Google Buzz.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 28, 2010

we collated some good tutorials and blogs available freely on the web, and I thought it would be good to share that list. Mike Chamber’s blog. BIT-101 Blog. Social Media Libraries for Flash eLearning Development: Useful Firefox add-ons. A few weeks back I wrote about the reasons for using ActionScript 3.0 [AS

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Upside Learning

APRIL 1, 2010

They interact with various social media to understand what could be dangerous should be avoided while on the Internet. The goal of the game is for teams to learn how to more effectively use social media tools for collaboration, communication, and learning while fighting zombies together throughout the conference.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

MICRO-BLOGGING: Check if your LMS offers a Micro-blogging feature. The micro-blogging feature is a great way to build a network that can be used for varied types of learning. Most instances of the LMS are capable of a lot more than what they are currently utilized for. I firmly believe that Abhijit was spot-on when he said that.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 24, 2009

Shameer Ayyappan, Captivate Product Manager, posted a Connect recording of his very cool Captivate Twitter Widget presentation to the Captivate Blog. Telstra’s 3Rs of Social Media Engagement. Captivate Integrates Twitter. Video Trace – Rapid Interactive Scene Modeling. Definitely worth a look!

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

New Research Puts Fortune 500 Social Media Usage On Display. This article from Grow Blog highlights some of the facts and figures in a new study of the Fortune 500’s adoption of blogging and Twitter as observed by The Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts. Read it here. Read it here.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Increase Learner Engagement through Social Media. The younger generation of learners is more inclined towards Blog, Facebook, Twitter and instant access to information on the Internet, preferring self-paced web-based training, available anywhere and anytime.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 30, 2010

She has written many articles on the subject and collated so much information on her site – it’s virtually the bible of Social Learning. Her presentation focused on 5 different ways in which Social Media is being used for learning: - Formal Structured. The fact is Social Learning is coming at us like a revolution.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 4, 2009

The best thing about this tool is the support available on forums and blogs. Google Reader (and numerous blogs): Blogs have been a huge source of information, as well as a big influencer, about anything new in recent times. I have picked up most of my knowledge about social media from here.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

That the LMS needs to incorporate social learning elements is no longer a point of debate but both a question of survival for the LMS itself and also a test of how the LMS handles the balance of both the elements of training and the ‘networkedness’ of the social learning. The constant feed of messages makes the LMS alive and alert.

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Upside Learning

MAY 7, 2010

Emergence of social media (and reviewed focus on social and informal learning). Related posts: Top 13 LMS (and Learning Technology) Blogs UpsideLMS wins THREE Awards at 2009 Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Technology Awards Learning Management: What does a Training Company need an LMS for?

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Upside Learning

JULY 4, 2011

Social/Collaborative – Offering tools that mimic social media/network software will be one obvious theme. While Upside2Go already includes features that support sharing and interactions around shared media, I’d want the social flavor to run deeper. Take with a liberal pinch of salt please.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 12, 2009

A couple of months back I shared my thoughts on an interesting question relating to the ‘future of workplace learning’ at Learning Circuits Blog. The learning domain is undergoing change like never before; Social Media, Informal Learning , Communities, Virtual Worlds, Mobile Learning, Learning Games , Augmented Reality , and much else.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 4, 2009

The best thing about this tool is the support available on forums and blogs. Google Reader (and numerous blogs): Blogs have been a huge source of information, as well as a big influencer, about anything new in recent times. I have picked up most of my knowledge about social media from here.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

What he says further is even more interesting: “… no vendors would be a fine policy if no conference speaker ever pitched their book, blog or consultancy from the podium”. Some may be already experimenting with social tools while others have no idea about such tools. Just that the vendors are doing it explicitly through a stall.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 12, 2009

A couple of months back I shared my thoughts on an interesting question relating to the ‘future of workplace learning’ at Learning Circuits Blog. The learning domain is undergoing change like never before; Social Media, Informal Learning , Communities, Virtual Worlds, Mobile Learning, Learning Games , Augmented Reality , and much else.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Some posts that were interesting related to mobile learning on our blog: 1. The Social Media and Mobile Computing Explosion. Interesting posts related to games on our blog: 1. Social Learning – Social learning has made it big this year. Some interesting posts on our about Social Learning and Tools: 1.

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Upside Learning

JULY 10, 2012

Social Learning – Learning Management Systems have started offering tools that mimic social media/network software. The LMS and SNS – now have a fine balance with systems handling both- the elements of training and the ‘networkedness’ of the social learning. But this is changing.

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