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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. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS?

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Some Tools for Social Learning and How they Help Learning

Kapp Notes

A wiki is a self-organizing knowledge web site. A wiki is a discussion. Wiki software allows users to create, edit and link web pages easily. Wiki software is often used to create collaborative websites. The term “wiki” is from a Hawaiian word that means “fast” or “to hasten.” Short Text Messaging.

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“Seeding” Social Media for Engagement

Kapp Notes

The people have to answer the question about using the social media tool with the social media tool (Discuss the use of a wiki, within a wiki). These types of questions can help seed interesting conversations using a variety of social media (Blogs, Wikis, instant messaging). Tags: Content Guide.

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Bob Mosher: Performance Support and Learning at the Moment of Need #ls2010

Learning Visions

What are performance support tools being used to support the final 3 moments of need: searchable docs wikis help desk The guy next to us -- (“we are instinctively beggars by design” – we ask the guy next to us, but he is an FTE…may not know…but we’re not teaching independence. Tags: ls2010 performance support. We need to be more agile!

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Daily Bookmarks 06/19/2008

Experiencing eLearning

tags: openaccess , education , highered , e-learning , creativecommons , free. tags: conversation , discussion , e-learning , highered , assessment , web2.0. tags: education , pbl , k-12 , technology , multimedia , engagement , 21stcenturyskills. tags: education , technology , teaching , k-12 , changemanagement , netgeneration.

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My Workflow with Synergy

Experiencing eLearning

Editing our team wiki or the wikis for a course. Pidgin for instant messaging (On Pidgin, it’s mostly personal contacts. Technorati Tags: synergy , workflow , liveblog , Stephen+Downes , productivity. I find that my eyes feel less fatigued this way than if I use the laptop all day. Google Calendar.

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Ten Tips for Community Managers

OpenSesame

You’ll facilitate connections between people and to information in person, over instant messaging or through social networks. Have a plan for organizing and tagging content so that people can find what is relevant to them easily. Embrace the opportunity. Ten Tips for Community Builders. Have a technology plan.