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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 allow educators to rapidly skim through hundreds of blog posts and articles to find the most relevant information to their practice. Social bookmarking tools (i.e., Social Media Connection.

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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 allow educators to rapidly skim through hundreds of blog posts and articles to find the most relevant information to their practice. Social bookmarking tools (i.e., Social Media Connection.

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Twitter for learning

Sticky Learning

Why wouldn't you use Twitter?! I've only been actively participating on Twitter for 4-5 months now. In the few months that I've been active on Twitter I have been exposed to more ideas from more sources than in whole years previously. Twitter keeps me current. Twitter makes me better at my job. on Twitter.

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Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

I use the ‘like’ option on Twitter a lot (despite the icon being a heart, which I would take to actually mean I ‘love’ the tweet). If you were on Twitter before 2015 you’ll remember the switch from the star icon to the heart , yes? But I don’t use it to mean I like the tweet. Well, not always.

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In which ways do you use social media for your own learning?

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

His presentation was last Friday and he experimented with a Twitter backchannel. Unfortunately because people there might not have been on Twitter, it worked mainly to get input from outside the conference into the conference. Answers on twitter: It mostly helps me to link to new, unexpected thoughts, people, websites.

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 30, 2021

Mike Taylor

This article by Eva Keiffenheim (@Evti) shares some of the same sources I use to create this newsletter – and they’re all free. LinkRoll is a social bookmark manager where you can easily share and organize your bookmarks in a visual and intuitive way. Follow me on Twitter and LinkedIn. Where You Can Find Me.

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eLearning Cyclops: Cool Tools to Liven Up The Classroom

eLearning Cyclops

I just read an article in T&D Magazine titled "Beef Up Your Training Toolbox with Web Tool." The article inspired me to look at what is on my Cloud Apps page that may also be helpful to the classroom trainer. Social Media - Get a back channel going in the classroom and keep it posted on the screen. Monday, June 20, 2011.