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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

RSS (really simple syndication) readers and social bookmarking are two popular information aggregation tools. Social bookmarking tools (i.e., Social Media Connection. Social media connection tools provide a space for educators to connect with a global audience. Social Bookmarking.

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

RSS (really simple syndication) readers and social bookmarking are two popular information aggregation tools. Social bookmarking tools (i.e., Social Media Connection. Social media connection tools provide a space for educators to connect with a global audience. Social Bookmarking.

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Learning Organizations, eLearning 2.0 and Edupunk

Clark Quinn

If you have a population of learners who have already adopted tools (such as blogging and social bookmarking) for themselves that are different than the corporate tool (the LMS) do you ask them to move? For Wiki-like capabilities, it likely is fine for an LMS to provide these and for learning organizations to use them.

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Learning Organizations, eLearning 2.0 and Edupunk

Tony Karrer

If you have a population of learners who have already adopted tools (such as blogging and social bookmarking) for themselves that are different than the corporate tool (the LMS) do you ask them to move? For Wiki-like capabilities, it likely is fine for an LMS to provide these and for learning organizations to use them.

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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. Provide self-starters with access to the best resources. Pattern recognition is key.

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Blogs, Automated Translations, and a Better Site Feed

Tony Karrer

This is provided by Yahoo's, AltaVista's, BabelFish - aren't acquisitions fun? Using FeedBurner , I can add lots of fun stuff to the feed and I've turned on publishing a daily summary of my del.icio.us You'll have to visit my blog to see this in action.

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