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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | March 5, 2020

Mike Taylor

Paradoxes of Engagement: Less Communication Is More. Stowe Boyd writes about how minimizing hours for synchronous communication makes us more productive and shares some research about how bursts of rapid-fire communications, with longer periods of silence in between, are hallmarks of successful teams.

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Top 68 eLearning Posts from April - Hot Topics iPad Google Buzz

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Key Social Learning Roles - Daretoshare , April 4, 2010 Premise : Learning communities or networks thrive because its members possess certain skills and capabilities. Community members should be able to perform one or more of the five roles described in the table that follows. I tend to work on things that are a bit leading.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Real World, SecondLife and FaceBook/MySpace

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One could argue that by sending staff to just one part of SL, you limit their exposure to the larger community and should therefore eliminate any discomfort. For comparison, if you search on "Chicago women," you get a completely different set of results. So why send staff there? 11:23 AM Cammy Bean said. 12:03 PM Mark said.

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