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Part 2: Using Facebook as a learning platform (videos)

eFront

This week I would like to share my favorite YouTube videos on the subject! This video is part of the Expert Perspectives series at the University of Minnesota. Using Facebook to teach: Bullis School teacher Sara Romeyn talks about using Facebook as a teaching tool in her AP U.S. History Class.

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How to Download YouTube Videos

Tony Karrer

I needed to figure out how to download YouTube videos for an upcoming conference presentation where I wasn't confident that I would be able to have a good enough connection to play the video. I've not tried it, but it appears to work for Google Video, MySpace video and more.

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MOOC Major Players

LearnDash

It’s still too early to tell which one of these will fall the way of MySpace, but as Facebook has pointed out, there is often very little room at the top. Khan Academy – This option began in 2006 as an online library of instructor videos that Mr. Khan made for his family.

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How Millennials Connect to Mobile Learning

LearnDash

They assimilate information quickly, and aren’t interesting in watching lecture videos for fifty minutes at a time. Videos should top out at around seven minutes, and mobile quizzes should be even less. Like many of my generation, I grew up on video games, and strange as it may seem, I learned a lot from them. Make it social.

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How to create social buzz at a learning event

Jane Hart

In a recent posting, Social Learning in action , I described how a number of the participants got involved in the informal session I ran at a local elearning network event – by sharing images, videos etc. Pictures and images. Slideshare. Digital media aggregator. Oh, and remember!

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Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange.

Dashe & Thomson

For those of you that are unaware of TweetDeck, it is essentially a social media aggregator (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Buzz, Foursquare and MySpace) that can be used on almost any device (PC, iPhone, Android, iPad, Google Chrome, and more). Properly d.

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How the Fastest Growing Companies are Using Social Media

Upside Learning

Questions probed the familiarity of respondents with six prominent social media (blogging, podcasting, online video, social networking, message boards and wikis). In 2009, several new tools were added including the popular microblogging service Twitter and other popular social networking sites like Linkedin, Facebook, and MySpace.