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Friday, September 3, 2010
Social Networking: Social Networking is increasingly prevalent in children's lives. Tween's playing a video game. Most of them do on a regular basis. In 2010, when M2 Research asked a similar question, they found 91 percent of boys and 93 percent of girls aged 8-11 are playing games online on a regular basis. That's a big increase.
 
Thursday, September 2, 2010
knew it was a social networking site similar to Orkut. Ning is a service that allows you to create online social networks.  Last we at  Instructional Designers Community of India wanted to create an online social network for the community. The software industry is loaded with help manuals and tutorials. What users want? Reasons.
 
Thursday, September 2, 2010
This is a good example of a fairly simple, light-weight tool to analyze social interactions in an LMS like Moodle, Blackboard, or Desire2Learn. The analysis isn’t very comprehensive, but does provide frequency of posts and social network structure. Greater analysis of the nature of interaction (i.e
 

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Jones and I are doing a session at Training 2010 titled  Defining Your Social Learning Strategy. As prep for this, we’ve put together a comprehensive checklist of Social Learning Strategy topics that learning professionals and executives should consider when thinking through their objectives and plans. Social Learning Planning.
Jane Hart posted a tongue-in-cheek video by Ron Desi of 10 reasons why you should not have social media in the organization, and is collecting rebuttals.  Social media is a fad. You can’t control the message, and social media isn’t going to change that.  Social Media is a time waster. Tags: social
The person who looks for and uses content, information, and social connections. Media Savvy :  Able to use social media in a natural way. Tagged: learning community , social learning. Tags: learning20 social learning learning community Please share your comments and ideas to guide me through my next steps. Consumer.
I am often asked by business leaders to describe what we intend to measure in order to understand, manage, and improve the networked (or social) learning eco-system.  Learning needs - differences between the learning needs or demand between “formal&# and “social&# learning (are some skills best learnt formally?),
Social Networking Advantages: Infinitely more resources. Tags: social media collaboration blogging Searching RSS Social Learning SIG Email Wiki I don’t know who to credit this to, but I love it. It has been posted so many times that the originator is lost. But, THANK YOU! to whomever it was. Constant. Receive feedback.
Our office has been receiving numerous requests to help incorporate social media tools into a variety of communication and education projects. Our clients want help creating blogs, wikis, collaborative workspaces, and social networks. You can’t mandate that your audience “be social.”. We’ve responded with cautious optimism.
It's been talked about for years, but 'Social Learning' is more recently becoming the big buzz word in learning, and you should probably pay attention because it's being pegged as the next generation of eLearning (heavily debated of course, as is everything in learning). Enjoy! schnicker.
Recently I was asked if I was OK with using SharePoint instead of social media software.  My main reason - which may not seem like much on the outset - is that SP is document focused and social media is people focused.  In the same way, both SharePoint and social media might be said to make similar journeys - they are both vehicles. 
At DevLearn, many people lamented the difficulty of explaining the benefits of social media to their managers and peers. Jane mined the submissions of her delightful tools database and came up with 100+ ways to use social media for learning. Next, Jane details using social media for different types of learning. This is awesome.
In thinking about the benefits of adding social to formal learning for a presentation I’ll be giving, I realized that the main reason to extend social activities into formal learning is for the additional processing it provides.  While there is processing individually, social interaction provides more opportunities.