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Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning.

Dashe & Thomson

Our conversation centered on whether or not companies should limit their employees’ use of the internet and social media while at work. Most of my PDL is done reading daily news articles, marketing blogs, adult learning webinars and more via the internet. ASL, by definition, can happen anytime, anywhere. That’s right, FACEBOOK!

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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

Last week I had a phone conversation with Ian Huckabee of WeeJee Media. As I write this blog, the man now has 94,894 followers on Twitter and every major news outlet in the world is scrambling for an interview. Like many enterprise learning companies, we are actively brainstorming ways to incorporate collaborative Web 2.0

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Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange.

Dashe & Thomson

Look for businesses you love, people you know, or news sources you read. This will help you think of what to write, will draw more eyes to your message, and can even start a new conversation. Try posting a message mentioning one of the top adult learning minds. You’ll see their response on your Mentions tab.

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What can you learn from a chatbot?

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

A chatbot can converse with you to perform a task. In Facebook Messenger you can get CNN news via a personalised chatmessage. Messaging apps are used to enter directly in a conversation with someone. Chatbots are your new friend or colleagues on whatsapp or Slack. That page I had not found myself! What is a chatbot?

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Good Writing

Tony Karrer

Rubrics and Good Writing One of my favorite conversation topics is always looking at how school has changed from when I went through. The good news these days for my kids is that there is often a rubric (set of evaluation criteria) that are used to grade their writing. I wonder what the impact of IM and txting will have on writing.

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Latest in Learning Fast: edu-Twittering

Marcia Conner

While on the phone or talking with a colleague at your desk you could glean the day’s hot news or gather learning-bites you subscribed to receive. Before overloading corporate servers and attention spans, it catalyzed an international conversation about new ways to deliver information and help people learn.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Best Project Ever

Learning Visions

Hooray for the new arrival. Im not disconcerted, though probably youre wreaking havoc with administrative systems. Im grateful to Baby Girl that she came a couple days early. Very very exciting news! As you know, Im a big fan of baby girls! Congratulations on your new baby! 8:27 PM John David Roberts said.

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