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Taking Stock and Making Choices: Working from home and other such stuff

ID Reflections

Skype and Hangout are second best. Bonds don’t form over a Skype call but over coffee and lunch when conversations veer to the personal and discussions revolve around interests. Without the support of various online communities, I doubt if I would have had the fortitude or the skills required to do my work effectively.

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How Digital Learning Became Connected Learning

Leo Learning

This offered the first glimpses of how you could start to measure the effectiveness of learning. Understandably the metrics gathered were often not used to prove the effectiveness of learning, but simply to prove take-up. But its effectiveness was limited. Xerox: Communities of Practice.

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Five tools for global educators

Learning with e's

In effect, through the use of social media and telecommunication technologies, these teachers are becoming global educators. We are connected educators, linked in to a number of powerful global communities of practice, and we have access to resources, dialogue and audiences we would not enjoy in a traditional learning and teaching role.

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Jay Cross – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

Jay: The Internet Time Alliance is a community of practice. Forming the Alliance community was easily the best professional development move of my career. We are continuously conversing on Skype and we meet online as a group every Monday morning to talk over news and gossip, chat about trends, and ask for pointers and help.

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JAY CROSS – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

Learnnovators

Jay: The Internet Time Alliance is a community of practice. Forming the Alliance community was easily the best professional development move of my career. We are continuously conversing on Skype and we meet online as a group every Monday morning to talk over news and gossip, chat about trends, and ask for pointers and help.

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Clark Quinn – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

How do you educate your clients about the most effective approaches to learning? The remedy is to look to how we use devices to make ourselves more effective. Use Twitter, Facebook, Skype, Plus, and LinkedIn. Even with the download, you’re still practicing, and who knows how it would interfere with restful sleep?

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CLARK QUINN – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

Learnnovators

How do you educate your clients about the most effective approaches to learning? The remedy is to look to how we use devices to make ourselves more effective. Use Twitter, Facebook, Skype, Plus, and LinkedIn. Even with the download, you’re still practicing, and who knows how it would interfere with restful sleep?