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Some Tools for Social Learning and How they Help Learning

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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.” Apple University.

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“Seeding” Social Media for Engagement

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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). or “Provide the URL of your most useful link&#. These types of questions can help seed interesting conversations using a variety of social media (Blogs, Wikis, instant messaging).

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An Open LMS: CourseKit

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Wharton dropout Joseph Cohen just launched Coursekit — the ultimate disrupter of academic course software, Blackboard (Providence Equity Partners bought it last month for $1.64 After all, Cohen plans to sell Coursekit to professors instead of letting university IT departments slow him down.

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Pedia Palooza

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Wikis, Blogs and Social Networks Presentation Materials And I have noticed a number of other Social Networking uses in corporate and government arenas focusing on a Wikipedia-style open exchange of information. Of course we know software companies have been doing things like making the Microsoft's Developer wiki public for a while.

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Web 2.0

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This presentation discussed how Sharepoint is used to provide Web 2.0 Some highlights: Using a wiki to house class materials for a class of 30 students saved between 10,000-12,000 sheets of paper. Participants loved having the wiki. tools for large organizatons. Rachel and Nick discuss using Sharepoint as a Web 2.0

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Selling Social Media for Learning: ASTD Big Question

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Providing up-front assistance and training is essential for the majority of employees to adopt. Make Sure Stakeholders Understand the Potential Business Uses of the Technology My blog Tech Dimensions contains a series of posts about how blogs, wikis, RSS, Twitter, and other Social Media tools can be used to address business needs.

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The High Art of Reusability

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Try this.look at the diagram and imagine substituting in corporate or academic stuff: A research scientist's blog provides material for an idea which is then critiqued and expanded as it appears in a collaborative wiki. The scientists tweak their work based on the feedback and, again, post the changes to the collaborative wiki.

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