Around 2007 we started using blogs to support several of our student teacher groups that were geographically dispersed across the South of England. Social software is based heavily on participation, and this is apparent in a number of features including social tagging , voting, versioning, hyperlinking and searching, as well as discussion and commenting. The biggest problem they identified was a lack of time, and most agreed that the wiki activities actually made more work for them. MORE

Instead there's a simple binary system of classification - it's either a classroom problem or an e-learning one. The problem was that our courses were neither pure soft skills (where technology rarely rears its ugly head) nor IT training (where good design in presentations, printed documents or web content never gets a mention). In my 20s I spent a couple of years working in management accounting for a large multinational. MORE

I usually start by tagging based on the project name. I like that the Clip Organizer already does a lot of the tagging because it pulls from the project folder and file name. If you get in the habit of adding descriptive titles and folder names, you will make tagging and locating your images super easy. The problem is that I have to dig through the previous course assets to find the image. MORE

Cons: A cost may be associated with receiving text messages via cell phone, not for everyone because it can be intrusive, productivity can suffer, the informal nature makes it hard to quantify,self-directed, self-motivated groups tend to define their own enterprise and may drift from organizational objectives, fFree transfer of information typical of social learning technologies may create problems in an environment that treats information as private, a public record exists of messages ; ). MORE

IBM I only briefly mentioned how other organizations are adopting these tools in a big way - The Wall Street Journal - June 18 2007 - social networking at IBM 26,000 registered blogs. Ranking, tagging, top stories Tags link back to the tagger's BluePages profile IBM owns more than 50 islands in Second Life. No problems getting things here. Last week I presented a session at ASTD TechKnowledge entitled eLearning 2.0 - Applications and Implications. MORE

It is literally the ‘ architecture of participation ’ (O''Reilly, 2004; Barsky and Purdon, 2006) and demands active engagement as a natural facet of its character (Kamel Boulos and Wheeler, 2007). The problem with this is that students may not always be as accurate or fastidious in their content generation as they could be, and may need guidance on the pathway they choose to take. MORE

From rocket eBook reader in 1998 to the ever popular Amazon Kindle readers first launched in 2007, the dedicated reading devices have evolved tremendously. While large vendors like Hurix, Aptara, Manipal can enable trade publishers with anything from type setting to xml tagging to book apps, most of the publishers use the services only for page conversions. But these statistics create a curious problem for publishers. MORE

I did so because I think that gathering, tagging, storing, sharing, manipulating, and managing good content is the easy part (whether using Plateau or any other content management system, including customized databases). make a good decision, solve a problem, improve a process, resolve a conflict, etc.) I received an email invitation today to join a webinar to be led by Ed Cohen, the Chief Technology Officer of Plateau Systems, titled "The Future of Learning Content." MORE

From rocket eBook reader in 1998 to the ever-popular Amazon Kindle readers first launched in 2007, the dedicated reading devices have evolved tremendously. While large vendors like Hurix , Aptara , Manipal can enable trade publishers with anything from typesetting to XML tagging to book apps, most of the publishers use the services only for page conversions. But these statistics create a curious problem for publishers. MORE

Authorware officially dies (actually this post is from 2007) while Director11 is (re)born. TWITTER For the alpha geek community Twitter was the big story for 2007. The only trouble being that it is a pain to review PC-only apps (like Articulate , or Flypaper ) Links JotYou - Location-based SMS mobile eLearning TONCHIDOT - Tagging the world Generational Conversations There has been lots of talk about generational learning styles and gaps. MORE

Traditionally, the Semantic Web is associated with semantic technologies (Gaevi, Jovanovi, & Devedi, 2007 ). collaborative tagging, social networking, mash-ups, and wikis), lightweight representation of semantics and metadata is used in the form of folksonomies, user comments, and ratings. Collaborative tagging and folksonomies for multimedia learning objects. The January special issue of Interactive Learning Environments is out right now. MORE

it is focused specifically on Social Networking, Blogging, Wikis, tagging, RSS, etc. The professionals of tomorrow will require the skills of creative problem solving, risk taking, and innovation that can only be gained through experiences not currently available in a classroom or any online learning course When many in our field speak on the topic of Learning2.0, or eLearning2.0, These are without a doubt the next concepts, and tools, of life long learning. MORE

Two problems: Although this was the same model as my laptop, the owner doesn’t use a mouse, and I do. Internet_use , Mac , PLE , PLWE , business , computers , delicious , learning , learning 2.0 , organizing_information , social_bookmarking , tagging , technology , tips , web2.0 , webtools | delicious , learning , PLE , PLWE , WorkLiteracy | 3 Comments. December 2007. November 2007. October 2007. September 2007. August 2007. July 2007. MORE