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Join me today at Train for Success in Second Life

Kapp Notes

I will guide a tour of a virtual “green&# house and discuss the seven sensibilities that differentiate Virtual Immersive Environments from other forms of educational and social media and how organizations such as IBM, Ernst and Young and BP have leveraged Virtual Immersive Environments to improve organizational performance.

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Is Social Media Learning Hype or a Valuable Tool?

JCA Solutions

What to Consider When Thinking About Social Media Learning. Raise your hand if you have had to deal with social media issues in the workplace! What if you could turn your social media problem into something positive? Why not turn it into social media LEARNING ! Widespread Social Media Use.

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The Pros of Social Media for E-Learning

Rapid eLearning

The training industry is changing rapidly and technology plays a big role in that change, especially social media. Today, I’d like to discuss a few pros of social media as it relates to our industry and then I’ll follow it up with a post on some of the cons. What is Social Media?

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Empowering All the Voices: Another Reason to Love Social Media

OpenSesame

From college professors and software designers to technical writers and Second Life architects, we’ve had a diverse and fascinating crowd over the last several months. My fellow meetup-ers correctly diagnosed that I am an extroverted person in “real life” (what does that really mean anymore?) That’s not particularly surprising.

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Social Media Offerings which can b used in Social Learning

eLearning 24-7

Social media types with examples. New social media types are being created, identified and defined constantly. Bi-weekly updates, which can be found on the “Social Media Page&# under my Essentials section, that debuts on Monday. Social Bookmarking – Delicious - spelled often as del.icio.us

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LMS/LCMS Social Media & Side Notes

eLearning 24-7

If you haven’t been looking at LMS/LCMS solutions lately or if you have, you may be noticing a trend - social media. Instead, let’s call it, what it really is and what it will be going forward – “Social Media&#. Social Media – Followed by an example.

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Learning, KM vs. SM, Information, Web 2.0, and Second Life

Big Dog, Little Dog

Instead, the study found that students use a limited range of technologies for both formal and informal learning and that there is a "very low level of use and familiarity with collaborative knowledge creation tools such as wikis, virtual worlds, personal web publishing, and other emergent social technologies." See, More Mythbusting Evidence.