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Maximizing Your Learning Experience with Social Learning Apps

Instancy

Creating Communities of Practice Instancy’s social learning tools help learners to create communities of practice based on their interests. Each learning community may have its own unique site containing a content library, discussion forums, wiki knowledge base, polls, and more.

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Book review: Social media for trainers

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Hence I was thrilled to find Jane Bozarth's book: Social media for Trainers. Anyhow, the book is very practical and has lots of good tips. Here, she defines learning and social learning and links social learning to personal learning networks and communities of practice.

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Social Learning Has Its Place…And Informal Learning Does Too.

Dashe & Thomson

Granted there have been several books written about social learning (small S, small L) and sometimes a writer will go as far as to capitalize the term every now and then, but has anyone really claimed it to be a proper noun? That being said, I believe Jane’s first misstep occurs when she uses the term Social Learning (big S, big L).

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Blog Book Tour: Social Media for Trainers--stop #9

ID Reflections

#SoMe for Trainers: Beating the Forgetting Curve This is the 9th stop of the Blog Book Tour for Jane Bozarth's new book, S ocial Media for Trainers. This book addresses the sceptics, the doubting and the uninitiated as well as those experienced in using the tools. This book is a case in a point.

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Sims as CTA

Clark Quinn

I believe so strongly I wrote a book about it ;). And the cross-pollination: I believe that we’ll be passing on responsibility for defining curricular paths to competency in areas to the associated communities of practice.

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Contest - Win a Free Copy of Digital Habitats via LearnTrends 2009

Tony Karrer

Nancy has been my go to person for all things Communities and Networks and worked with me to create Communities and Networks Connection. So naturally when Nancy and John (with Etienne Wenger) put out the book Digital Habitats; Stewarding Technology for Communities I was very excited. This is a really awesome book.

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Recommended Reading Summary: A Chapter of “Emerging Technologies for the Classroom”

Adobe Captivate

I’ve since started writing chapter summaries (here is the last article ) so people can “preview” some of the great books out there and hopefully end up reading them! For the full text, here’s a Springer Link , which is free with subscription, or you can purchase the chapter or book.