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What Makes Yammer Different?

eLearning Cyclops

I have started test driving Yammer. the training and development department can have its own separate group within the organization's Yammer network). Like LinkedIn, it allows one to view a member's employment and educational background, skills, interests, contact information, etc. Groups can be set-up (e.g.

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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). An Educator’s Professional Learning Network. These tools are useful for staying up-to-date on recent news, best practices, and theories in the field of Education. Information Aggregation.

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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). An Educator’s Professional Learning Network. These tools are useful for staying up-to-date on recent news, best practices, and theories in the field of Education. Information Aggregation.

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Twitter for Learning – 55 Great Articles

Tony Karrer

is up - Adventures in Corporate Education , April 18, 2009 Facilitating a twitter chat - Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning , March 9, 2010 To get Twitter you gotta Tweet! is up - Adventures in Corporate Education , April 18, 2009 Facilitating a twitter chat - Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning , March 9, 2010 To get Twitter you gotta Tweet!

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eLearning: Interesting Weekly Finds #13

Upside Learning

Learning environments of video games can educate children effectively. AS3 Lib for Yammer – An AS3 Yammer API library that communicates with the Yammer service. To use the library you will need your own consumer key and secret for the Yammer API available from Yammer’s developer site.

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Social and Learned Helplessness in Learning

Nick Leffler

As formal education takes hold many of the curiosities are beat out of them by rigid instructions. Places like Twitter or Yammer rather than the water cooler or lunch with colleagues (although it could apply there also). That sounds familiar to Learned Helplessness in Learning. Kids are curious, heck, all ages of people are!

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17 Awesome Resources on Micro Learning

Learnnovators

the term “micro-learning” refers to micro-perspectives in the context of learning, education and training. Schone and John Polaschek at DevLearn 2009) discusses how Yammer was shortlisted and implemented at Qualcomm for encouraging micro learning within the corporate environment. e-Book/Whitepaper.