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How Digital Learning Became Connected Learning

Leo Learning

MSN (Windows Live) Messenger, AOL, Yahoo Messenger, and Skype gained massive popularity as the dawn of the internet reached home users in the late 90s and into the turn of the millennium. Xerox: Communities of Practice. Five practical ways to enable social learning. How to join your data and networks together.

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Taking Stock and Making Choices: Working from home and other such stuff

ID Reflections

Skype and Hangout are second best. Bonds don’t form over a Skype call but over coffee and lunch when conversations veer to the personal and discussions revolve around interests. In the absence of such conversations, I have to consciously make an effort to write about and communicate what I do within the organization.

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Will chat replace email? Slack thinks so.

Obsidian Learning

Here at Obsidian, we use both email and messaging ( Skype ) for inter-office communication, a combination that works just fine for us as a small, woman-owned business. And we’ve also looked at using social learning to build communities of practice and personal learning networks. What do you think?

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eLearning Learning - Best of May

Tony Karrer

Blogger in Middle-earth , May 26, 2009 Tips for Working with SMEs - Bozarthzone , May 21, 2009 Social Networking in Times of Stress and Personal Emergencies - Electronic Papyrus , May 11, 2009 Aligning Learning Theory with Instructional Design - The E-Learning Curve , May 21, 2009 Developing a PLE Using Web 2.0

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10 Tips for Incorporating Ed-Tech Into Your Own Development

ATD Learning Technologies

Develop, cultivate, and continually refresh your Personal Learning Network (PLN). Remember, if you don’t use and share the resources within that network to keep up with what is happening around you, you might as well not have a PLN. This could be LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Yammer, Slack, or any ATD online community of Practice.

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How to Create a Successful Community of Practice

CrossKnowledge

<div class=”page-chapo”>Communities of practice have existed within organizations for many years, usually taking the form of a group of people gathering together to share knowledge, to motivate each other, and build their expertise.</div> How do communities of practice work?

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Five tools for global educators

Learning with e's

We are connected educators, linked in to a number of powerful global communities of practice, and we have access to resources, dialogue and audiences we would not enjoy in a traditional learning and teaching role. But what tools do we use to enable us to connect with these communities, resources, audiences around the globe?

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