Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

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In which ways do you use social media for your own learning?

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

His presentation was last Friday and he experimented with a Twitter backchannel. Unfortunately because people there might not have been on Twitter, it worked mainly to get input from outside the conference into the conference. Answers on twitter: It mostly helps me to link to new, unexpected thoughts, people, websites.

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Yammer for internal knowledge sharing for health care and policy making

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

If you don't know Yammer: Yammer is kind of Twitter (micro-blogging) service which can be used within organisation, so it is not public like on Twitter. The messages can be slightly longer than on Twitter and it is easier to reply (looks a lot like Facebook).

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Social media: 4 opportunities for secondary education

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Twitter was popular, but also RSS readers like igoogle were appreciated, to follow a few interesting sites or blogs. We found out the twitter account with the name of the school was already taken, probably by a few students (10 students were following that account). Now a lot of questions are received by email.

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7 lessons how to use social media in an event with social media beginners

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

the exception was the twitter wall- people not on twitter didn't really get it and I can't help sympathizing with them) From the experience and various sources I've collected I can distill seven important lessons: Use social media to find and connect your event to existing (online) communities. Or simply raise hands or coloured papers.

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Various ways to use social media as a facilitator or trainer

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

An example is using Yammer or Twitter so that participants can have contacts in between face-to-face events, but the core is in the face-to-face. (2) Or invite them to stay in touch through Twitter. You invite them every month to write a blogpost about an inspirational question and make the results available via Twitter and your blog.

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The dark side of online interaction

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Burglars read along on twitter if you're on vacation. The speed with which information is circulated on the Internet through blogs and twitter leads to hyping and creates room for manipulation. Continuous flow of information leading to the it-never-ends feeling. Think of cyberbullying, and hate groups. Or privacy issues.

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How our learning theories shape how we use technology for learning

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

For me it is obvious that Twitter can be an important learning instrument but if see you learning as acquiring new knowledge it is less obvious. ''T I blogged about the difference before in: twittering= learning ? audio, visuals, animations, or video), the proper location of information on screen, screen attributes (e.g.