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Collaborative Learning Lessons from Wikipedia (and Small Insects.

Dashe & Thomson

A remarkable example of this phenomenon can be found in Wikipedia, a completely user-driven Collaborative Knowledge Support System (my own term) that has become not only the most all-encompassing compendium of knowledge in world history, but increasingly the resource of choice for information on current events.

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Leveraging the Law of the Few to Manage Change in the Workplace.

Dashe & Thomson

Mavens are “information specialists,” or “people we rely upon to connect us with new information.” View all posts by Paul → ← Collaborative Learning Lessons from Wikipedia (and Small Insects) The Impact of Social Learning: Will You Be The First? When information is stable, the explicit dimension becomes very important.

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Facebook or Kanye West: Which Pop Icon Has a Future in Enterprise.

Dashe & Thomson

For example, I’m watching Storytellers: Kanye West on Palladia a couple nights ago (a great TV channel if you love music; and like learning, everyone loves music). Have you ever heard someone say, “I hate learning!&# ? (I I wrote about the love of learning and mobile phones in a blog a few weeks back if you want to take a look).

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Facebook or Kanye West: Which Pop Icon Has a Future in Enterprise.

Dashe & Thomson

For example, I’m watching Storytellers: Kanye West on Palladia a couple nights ago (a great TV channel if you love music; and like learning, everyone loves music). Have you ever heard someone say, “I hate learning!&# ? (I I wrote about the love of learning and mobile phones in a blog a few weeks back if you want to take a look).

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Augmented Reality and M-Learning

eLearning 24-7

Image recognition exists, so that you can use your camera – on your smartphone – focus on a car for example, and information about what the car is, how it works appears on your screen. Wikitude World Browser app displays data and other points of interest by overlaying information on the real-time camera view.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Emerging Technologies in e-Learning

Learning Visions

Marshall McLuhan) -- Im not trying to be a smarty-pants here, but I looked this up and Gary was close: "We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. Wireless vs. Learning Objects and Repositories Location-based Technologies Mashups (came from hiphop -- artists would take samples and pieces and put them together into one creative work.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Auditory Advantage

Learning Visions

Here are a few things that I’ve tried in the last couple of years that I’ve pinched directly from my years in front of the Playstation: The use of music to change emotional state; to bypass conscious processing of information. I looked at the Lozanov entry on Wikipedia and found some useful nuggets there. Ill stop there.

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