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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

The information aggregation tools are used to collect and organize information from various resources (websites, podcasts, blogs). RSS readers allow educators to rapidly skim through hundreds of blog posts and articles to find the most relevant information to their practice. Edmodo and Ning are gaining popularity with educators.

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

The information aggregation tools are used to collect and organize information from various resources (websites, podcasts, blogs). RSS readers allow educators to rapidly skim through hundreds of blog posts and articles to find the most relevant information to their practice. Edmodo and Ning are gaining popularity with educators.

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How I use social media professionally

Challenge to Learn

In the mean time I have added other social media like this blog (WordPress), Facebook and Twitter. At the beginning of this year I started my on LinkedIn group ( the e-Learning Piranhas ), I read blogs a lot of blogs (thanks to the Ipad and Flipboard). It links to LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and our blog at WordPress.

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Daily Bookmarks 09/29/2008

Experiencing eLearning

tags: literacy , writing , technology. Annoyingly, just as complaints about literacy multiply, along comes a technology that has promoted a renaissance in reading and writing, yet it is treated with contempt by the ‘pen and paper’ brigade. Haven’t you see MySpace, facebook and blogs. tags: skype. Posted in

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The Impact of Social Media in the Workplace

CLO Magazine

This definition indicates a spectrum of technologies much larger than just Facebook, Twitter and other networking sites. blogs, wikis, YouTube). The most popular social media tools include: Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs, Twitter, Yelp, Google Documents, wikis, Skype and online chat (e.g., tools (e.g.,

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Top 100 eLearning Items

Tony Karrer

Introducing The Conversation Prism eLearning Trends 2007 and 2008 TechCrunch White Label Social Networking Platforms Chart How to Insert YouTube Videos in PowerPoint Presentations LinkedIn Tips and Tweaks: Do More with your LinkedIn Account Introduction to Wikis, Blogs, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking and RSS Corporate Policies on Web 2.0

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Social Grid Follow-up

Tony Karrer

Other Ways to Tap into the Social Grid In the session, I discussed the use of LinkedIn, Twitter and Blogging as my primary tools for tapping into the social grid. ranellem : @ tonykarrer I've found old friends via Facebook that have become professional contacts as well. I often find that Ning isn't that great for specialized content.