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The Power of Your Network | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

My background includes extensive experience in learning, teaching, and facilitation, and I love technology and how its changing our culture. Networking comes naturally for some people, but not-so-much for others. So big deal, you say. Why is networking so important anyway? What are some ways in which you build and support your network?

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How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

The power of tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Yammer, are pretty astounding. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend No comments yet. Properly d.

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

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning? Only recently has the training industry begun to tap into this realm of informal, social learning. I argued that they were both dead wrong.

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

Educators today are pursuing professional development by building their very own Professional (or Personal) Learning Networks (PLNs). A PLN is “a system of interpersonal connections and resources that support informal learning” (Trust, 2012). An Educator’s Professional Learning Network. What is a PLN?

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

Educators today are pursuing professional development by building their very own Professional (or Personal) Learning Networks (PLNs). A PLN is “a system of interpersonal connections and resources that support informal learning” (Trust, 2012). An Educator’s Professional Learning Network. What is a PLN?

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: My Top Ten Tools for 2009

Learning Visions

Delicious Tag articles as you go. Its delicious. Also really starting to get into Yammer. or status is better, but I stumbled on Yammer first - created T&D internal microblog.not too shabby. So easy to clip from articles online, jot down to do lists, and tag and organize it all. maybe Present.ly

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eLearning Cyclops: Cool Tools to Liven Up The Classroom

eLearning Cyclops

Delicious Digg Diigo Linkpad.me Twitter Yammer Storify (create stories using social media) Video - Create your own video and post it, find relevant videos already out there, and/or get your learners to make and share their own video. . Informal learning. Maybe I Can Informally Assess. ► April. (2).