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Micro-Worlds, Micro-life Learning: The Big Phenomenon, (But Small) Social Networking

Vignettes Learning

I keep on going back to the same thesis which I started studying a few years back: "all learnings are micro."(See" See" 3-Minutee-Learning "2006) I am beginning to see correlations and movements of events that lead me to conclude and see even clearer what Chris Anderson talks about in "The Long Tail" and applied in the learning world.

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Smaller Niches in Social Networking Support Micro-Learnings

Vignettes Learning

A photo with a story attached can be more compelling to some than millions of MySpace pages plagued by bad design. I am curious as to how widgets can help our learning environment. Does anyone have a good example of how widgets can be used in learning? See an example of creating widgets.

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"Abundantly abundant abundance" data does not mean learning

Vignettes Learning

I relate to what Nick Carr was saying about " Abundantly abundant abundance " Carr was referring to the overload of video, graphics, photos, and pages in MySpace, Facebook and many other personal Social Networking tools. Amidst all the abundance of technological prowess, there is a need to focus on micro-learnings and micro-groups.

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2018 Turkey Awards for E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

Learning Systems that need an update or several aka “Let’s not party like its 1999” Pretty self-explanatory, although I still can’t understand why that seems to be a challenge. Functionality – Totally in learning systems here. .” I guess MySpace was unavailable? Category 3. Category 4.

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Ideas Favor the Connected Mind

Big Dog, Little Dog

An idea is a network (a new configuration); however, that idea is normally cobbled together from whatever parts happen to be nearby — we take ideas from other people, people we learn from, people we meet in the coffee shop, and then stitch them together into new forms. However, social media tools, such as blogs, micro blogs (e.g.,

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Using social media for eLearning (a look at the top 6 social platforms)

eFront

A huge part of our social lives already happens online rather than in the “real world” And while individual social media networks might rise and fall (remember MySpace?), Even if your content could somehow fit, Twitter encourages a rapid-fire consumption of tweets, so it’s not the best place for a deep learning experience.

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Using social media for eLearning (a look at the top 6 social platforms)

eFront

A huge part of our social lives already happens online rather than in the “real world” And while individual social media networks might rise and fall (remember MySpace?), Even if your content could somehow fit, Twitter encourages a rapid-fire consumption of tweets, so it’s not the best place for a deep learning experience.