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Blogging in a Walled Garden

Experiencing eLearning

In that course, one of the most successful activities is student-led blog discussions, where each week two or three students start a conversation on a topic they care about by posting on their blogs. External blogs have a lot more flexibility and power for different kinds of writing: journals, conversations, videos, etc.

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Social Learning Ought to be Story-Sharing: "Friends You Haven't Met Yet"

Vignettes Learning

We spoke about ICT's Story Web Blog Project. Army, they compiled 33 million web blogs that use personal stories. But how do you align their discussions with your content? What seems to be the root of these complaints? First, some background: I visited with Andrew Gordon, Ph.D., This is quickly apparent to learners.

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Digital literacy 6: Organising and sharing content

Learning with e's

So this blogpost for example is tagged with a few key worlds such as 'digital literacy' and 'content creation' as well as more generic terms such as 'social web', 'blog', 'podcast' and 'video', because these terms have appeared in the text (see labels below). But tag you must, if you want your content to be searchable.

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RSS Primer from the Read/Write Web

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

So, it was wonderful luck to find a great post from Alex Iskold on the Read/Write Web blog called The Future of RSS. "In Hopefully, our discussion next week can help fill in the gaps. One of my 3 sessions at the upcoming eLearning Guild Conference in Boston is about RSS and eLearning.

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Convergence Learning

The Learning Circuits

This social aspect carries over to working and learning with others in new projects that allows them further gain insight into their recently acquired knowledge and skills.

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Evolution of L&D - Some more thoughts

ID Reflections

I recently wrote a post on the Role of L&D in the 21C Workplace which made me a part of a discussion happening half-way around the world and of which I had been so far unaware. Suddenly, I was part of a larger discussion and debate with people of similar passion and interest. All of these made me think some more. I love my PLN!