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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

PLNs connect them with a global network of contacts and resources. A PLN is “a system of interpersonal connections and resources that support informal learning” (Trust, 2012). There are two main types of tools for building a Professional Learning Network: information aggregation and social media connection.

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

PLNs connect them with a global network of contacts and resources. A PLN is “a system of interpersonal connections and resources that support informal learning” (Trust, 2012). There are two main types of tools for building a Professional Learning Network: information aggregation and social media connection.

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5 Simple Ways to Get Started with E-Learning Development - The Rapid eLearning Blog

Rapid eLearning

The main goal is to communicate information that will help someone do something better. Performance Consulting : This is a great resource to help you learn how to work with your clients and build a training course that will focus on real results. The learner moves the mouse over the label to get information about a specific brake part.

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New Literacies

Tony Karrer

What do these companies have in common: Google eBay Yahoo Amazon MapQuest Craigslist Wikipedia YouTube Built on top of Linux (open source). Social media in action. with Wiki, Blog, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, etc. Core competency of information age - leveraging collective intelligence.

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Web 2.0 Applications in Learning

Tony Karrer

Question 1 - What are the most likely ways / places your organization might or does use Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking or Collaboration Tools? DogEar – Social Bookmarking BluePages - employee-controlled profiles of 400,000 employees Daily online newsletter called w3. Choose the top 3-5.

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10 Ways To Learn In 2010

The eLearning Coach

You can also use word clouds as the basis for writing a poem, for studying another language and for comparing two pages of information. Here are a few: Amazon’s Askville , Yahoo Answers , Answerbag , Gotta Mentor , BlurtIt , and WikiAnswers. Do you ever search through tweets to discover the latest resources and conversations?

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Firewalls and Security in Software as a Service

Tony Karrer

For example, in our course, we found that Yahoo Groups were restricted in some corporate environments. The Yahoo Toolbar (for MyWeb ) couldn't be installed on locked desktops. Instead, we should have used Del.icio.us. Elluminate did not work through several firewalls, so we had to switch to WebEx.

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