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The Return of the (Digital) Native | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Textbooks, blackboards, and overhead projectors remain the tools of choice for many teachers, at a time when their students are geared to learn from iPads, PowerPoint, and instant messaging. The result is a lost message, and a lost opportunity.

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Hike: How Free Offline Messaging Works

Origin Learning

With the coming of affordable 2G and 3G networks for mobiles , it is like we have been hardwired to Instant Messaging (IM) on our phones. In fact, IM applications have evolved to provide much more than simple text-and-emoticon messaging. The way messaging works without internet within Hike is interesting.

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It’s Time To Focus On Remote Workforce Management

WhatFix

Some of the more common challenges are: Inability to download files, communicate or collaborate – owing to lack of access to the right video conferencing tools, high-speed internet, instant messaging, or role-specific software. Such situations warrant that workers conduct business on their personal devices.

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Survey: Tech Gadgets Eroding Workplace Etiquette

CLO Magazine

Using the wrong form of communication: Can you send a text or IM instead of calling? Along the same lines, email is better than instant message when an immediate response isn''t required. Of course, if you need to have a difficult conversation with someone, picking up the phone or talking in person is best.

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Set Yourself up for Productivity

Vitalyst

With the file open, you simply go to the sharing pane to grant Edit or View privileges, quickly find a colleague’s email address and presence information, and send an IM to begin working simultaneously. Researchers also report that the average person checks email more than 70 times a day. Image: Freepik , designed by Vectorarte.

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Set Yourself up for Productivity

Vitalyst

With the file open, you simply go to the sharing pane to grant Edit or View privileges, quickly find a colleague’s email address and presence information, and send an IM to begin working simultaneously. Researchers also report that the average person checks email more than 70 times a day. Image: Freepik , designed by Vectorarte.

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Part 3: Creating Trust in Your Social Learning Environment

OpenSesame

Someone (forgive me, I can’t remember who) recommended that, to learn new things, we should occasionally set out to be the dumbest person in the room – to admit what you don’t understand in order to gain understanding. We have remote employees at OpenSesame, and we use IMs to keep a constant conversation in the background.

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