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Forums vs. Social Networks?

Clark Quinn

I'm debating the value of forum / group / threaded discussion software vs. social network software for a particular situation. A user can do this through posting to a threaded discussion quite easily. Typically they center around threaded discussions. Possibly they've never used threaded discussions either.

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

Here’s what Torrey has to say about PLNs: In 1968, Licklider & Taylor predicted that computers would be used as communication devices where individuals would connect and converse with others around the world to discuss a shared topic of interest. Edmodo and Ning are gaining popularity with educators. Classroom 2.0

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

Here’s what Torrey has to say about PLNs: In 1968, Licklider & Taylor predicted that computers would be used as communication devices where individuals would connect and converse with others around the world to discuss a shared topic of interest. Edmodo and Ning are gaining popularity with educators. Classroom 2.0

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A.I., XR, Digital Twin – Which will drive Learning Technology?

eLearning 24-7

Yahoo back in the days actually checked every website, that sought to be on their search engine. Thus, if you made it onto Yahoo, you were going to generate a lot of traffic – my site in fact, did. Discussion Boards – all available in 1994 – I used them on my web site, now? Yep, humans did the checking.

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Social Bookmarking for Link Sharing

Tony Karrer

On TrDev, we've been discussing the sharing of links via forum posts vs. social bookmarking tools such as del.icio.us. I've discussed this before: Social Bookmarking Tricks for Group Learning Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 With del.icio.us (and better yet Yahoo MyWeb), you can go back and find them later.

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Moving from One to Many - LMS Products are Two Generations Behind

Tony Karrer

Collaborative learning environments and strategies such as virtual classrooms, discussion forums, mentoring and coaching need to be enabled and mandated as part of the learning experience. This is the same problem that Andrew McAfee discusses ERP vs. Enterprise 2.0.

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“Your call is important to us”

Jay Cross

That’s why outfits like Cisco, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, Symantec, Yahoo!, In our forums we facilitate a process of collective thinking and collective experience. Here’s the Consortium’s Executive Director, Greg Oxton, discussing findings from their R&D into service innovation.

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