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Blogging in a Walled Garden

Experiencing eLearning

One of the features of Sakai that our team was looking for in a new LMS is a blogging tool. I admit some significant improvements in usability are possible in this tool. However, it does give us the option of blogging within the system. So how do you use a blog effectively when it’s housed within a walled garden?

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Digital literacy 6: Organising and sharing content

Learning with e's

But how do you share in such a way that makes it visible to the web? You think of words that best describe your content, and then insert them into the appropriate box within the tool you are using. Answer - you organise it by 'tagging' it. Tagging content is a bit of an art. But tag you must, if you want your content to be searchable.

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Resistance is futile

Learning with e's

It wasn't easy, but over time, as the student nurses used the computers and began to demonstrate how their learning had improved, so the new technology became tolerated, and eventually accepted as just another learning tool. The same can be said for the participative Web. Such technologies are game changers.

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Social Learning Ought to be Story-Sharing: "Friends You Haven't Met Yet"

Vignettes Learning

We focus on content delivery and do not encourage learners to interact with others through online and virtual tools. We spoke about ICT's Story Web Blog Project. Army, they compiled 33 million web blogs that use personal stories. First, some background: I visited with Andrew Gordon, Ph.D.,

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RSS Primer from the Read/Write Web

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

So, it was wonderful luck to find a great post from Alex Iskold on the Read/Write Web blog called The Future of RSS. "In So in this post, we look at RSS today and ask if RSS is evolving into a tool for delivering complex, semantically rich information."

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Convergence Learning

The Learning Circuits

It is the application of tools, machines, materials and processes that help to solve problems and extend human capabilities. This social aspect carries over to working and learning with others in new projects that allows them further gain insight into their recently acquired knowledge and skills.

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Evolution of L&D - Some more thoughts

ID Reflections

This means being comfortable with the various tools and devices the employees will use at work; being willing to research and be a connector; and have an online presence to facilitate conversations. Moreover, enable workers to use social tools to develop their own PLNs – within and outside of the organization.