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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. RSS readers (i.e., RSS readers allow educators to rapidly skim through hundreds of blog posts and articles to find the most relevant information to their practice. Google Reader: How to Setup a RSS Feed (YouTube video).

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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. RSS readers (i.e., RSS readers allow educators to rapidly skim through hundreds of blog posts and articles to find the most relevant information to their practice. Google Reader: How to Setup a RSS Feed (YouTube video).

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LearnTrends: The Immernet Singularity

Experiencing eLearning

Knowledge Sharing Spaces (SharePoint, Blackboard, Yahoo Groups). knowledge discovery, blogs, wikis, tagging, RSS). School has confused us into thinking learning is about information dumps, not “tuning the network&#. i-web = immernet = immersive internet. 2D synchronous learning (WebEx, Elluminate, etc.). Virtual Worlds.

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Top Ten eLearning Blogs

Tony Karrer

Further, I would highly recommend that you don't evaluate by only looking at these blogs periodically, rather - sign up for an RSS reader, e.g., Bloglines or Google Reader and subscribe to each blog. I've provided links to each blogs feed and also buttons to quickly add it to Bloglines, My Yahoo or Google Reader.

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Finding Answers and Power of Questions

Tony Karrer

I just saw a post by Mike Oehlert on the Power of Questions where he says: So then I read about how Yahoo! , They are also integrating RSS feeds into these technologies so that you can subscribe to an answer stream and some are even integrating it into your Instant Message client.

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 6/20/2005

Big Dog, Little Dog

Why RSS and Folksonomies Are Becoming So Big. An RSS feed is a blog distilled to its core essence. If you look at the output of an RSS feed in a reader, you'll see no comments, no trackbacks and (for the most part) no design. Google vs. Yahoo: Clash of cultures. It's the better blog. It's pure data.

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Personal learning environments

Clive on Learning

Donald Clark makes the point in his posting Why I love PLEs that, in his interpretation of the term, they are already easily available in the form of personalised home pages on Google, Yahoo!, Are these really PLEs? Is their primary function really personal learning? Perhaps I need to define the term for myself.