Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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Handy free online tools

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Here are some of the tools I added to my repertoire of handy freebies in 2009. Egoboo tools help you find yourself, you narcissist. Activity streams are sort of in between Twitter and Blogs. Tags: Tools. Similar Site searches for sites with similar content to yours. Alltop aggregates headlines around any topic.

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Blogging to show off your organization

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Great article in the NY Times about student blogging at MIT. High school students read the blogs, and they come in and say ‘I can’t believe Haverford students get to do such interesting things with their summers,’ ” he said. Students get off on the blogging: M.I.T.

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2.0 is a philosophy, not a technology

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Social Blogs (written/ video). Social Micro-blogging. Tags: Informal Learning Tools Working_smarter. Social Websites? Social Books? Social Collaborative projects. Social Wikis. Social Web jams.

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Free Learning to Learn course going strong

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

I announced this free course on Learning to Learn on this blog two days ago. Tags: Informal Learning Tools innovation. Addictive Learning That Sticks. In a hurry? Enroll in the course here. Fifty people have enrolled. Most have completed their first three questions. Only 8% answered question 2. 10% got question 3 right. Please join us.

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Best of informal learning since September 1, 2010…

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Points of control = Rents - Lockergnome Blog Network , October 29, 2010. How Facebook and Twitter Are Replacing Blogging - Forbes.com: News , November 4, 2010. How Facebook and Twitter Are Replacing Blogging - Forbes.com: News , November 4, 2010. Thinking: Steve Jobs - Lockergnome Blog Network , October 25, 2010.

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Social Learning Examples

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Jane mined the submissions of her delightful tools database and came up with 100+ ways to use social media for learning. Each entry is tied to a tool and a description of how it’s used. Tags: social tools. We talked about building a repository of web 2.0 learning applications. Don’t go yet: there’s more.

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Transferring from Ning to Grou.ps

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

I downloaded and used the free Ning Archiver to move my data off Ning: Over the course of 30 minutes, I downloaded blogs, discussions, events, groups, music, videos, pages, notes, and photos. I don’t have patience to count how many blog entries came across; most entries are solid text, no paragraphs. Tags: Change Tools.

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