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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

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. Information Aggregation. Social bookmarking tools (i.e.,

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

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. Information Aggregation. Social bookmarking tools (i.e.,

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Web 2.0 Tool - Great Collaboration Example

Tony Karrer

tools as part of information sharing: AARF has built interfaces to the bookmarking site del.icio.us , the photo sharing site Flickr , and Digg , a site where members vote on the importance of news stories. It's also free; these interfaces with del.icio.us, Flickr, and Digg require no fees and no permissions.

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Not so tasty now

Learning with e's

Matthew 5:13 (New Testament) The Delicious social bookmarking site used to be one of my favourite social media tools. When Yahoo bought Delicious back in 2005 for an estimated $18 million, we all expected great things, and we got them. This represents a significant loss of capital for Yahoo. Not any more.

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Web 2.0 Tools, Networks and Community (Individuals vs. Collective)

Tony Karrer

Traditional online community mechanisms (email lists, groups) are joined by a wide variety of publishing mechanisms (blogs, social bookmarking, wikis, flickr, etc.) This forms a big network of people linked first through content and eventually directly (in person or via social networking).

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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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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. The learner moves the mouse over the label to get information about a specific brake part. It’s a good balance to the text heavy, academic information from some of the other sites that are focused on instructional design theory.