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TCC08: Wikis and Blogs and Tags: Oh Why?

Experiencing eLearning

Add “real world&# content by bringing things in from outside (podcasts, blogs, etc.). Google Docs. Wikis as classic example of collaborative tool. Gave an example of faculty handbook created with wiki (using MediaWiki). Wikis make it very clear who did what–always a problem with group work for grading.

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Some Tools for Social Learning and How they Help Learning

Kapp Notes

A wiki is a self-organizing knowledge web site. A wiki is a discussion. Wiki software allows users to create, edit and link web pages easily. Wiki software is often used to create collaborative websites. The term “wiki” is from a Hawaiian word that means “fast” or “to hasten.” Google Docs. Podcasting.

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Engaging online learners 5

Learning with e's

This can be done using shared digital spaces such as group blogs, wikis or Google Docs. This could be a podcast, video, blog, or multi-media presentation such as a slide show. The negotiation and teamwork required adds a new dimension to the engagement; the smaller the groups/teams, the better.

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2.0 is a philosophy, not a technology

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Informal Audio/ podcasts. Informal Reference docs/job aids. Social Wikis. Social Podcasting. Among our recommendations were: Informal Live webcasts. Informal Recorded webinars. Informal Video conferencing. Informal Workshops.

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Tools Used

Clark Quinn

delicious, Picassa, Ning, Google Docs/Google Apps, Second Life, Blogger, iGoogle, orkut, FriendFeed, Internal workplace community, PBWiki, Xing, Digg, Friendster (really?), Keywords: Podcasts, Twitter, Slideshare, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, Facebook, Wiki, RSS, RSS Reader, Wikipedia, delicious, del.icio.us, blogs.

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10 Social Media Tools For Learning

The eLearning Coach

Category: Podcasts. Although podcasts are a one-way form of communication, they enable the creation of user-generated content. Podcasts are fairly easy for anyone to make and with the free downloadable software, Audacity , it becomes an inexpensive option. Talk shows can be recorded, making them available as podcasts later.

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Reach for the clouds

E-Learning Provocateur

For example, Company X might dip its toes into the cloud by discontinuing local installations of their standard desktop software onto individual PCs, in favour of connecting to Google Docs. Podcast hosts. Wiki spaces. Private clouds. The major barrier to wholesale upsourcing to the cloud, I feel, will be data security.