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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. In the absence of such conversations, I have to consciously make an effort to write about and communicate what I do within the organization.

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How Digital Learning Became Connected Learning

Leo Learning

MSN (Windows Live) Messenger, AOL, Yahoo Messenger, and Skype gained massive popularity as the dawn of the internet reached home users in the late 90s and into the turn of the millennium. Xerox: Communities of Practice. The Growing Need for Knowledge-Sharing Platforms. What happened next?

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Five tools for global educators

Learning with e's

Recently I have been considering the changing role of teachers who are adopting technology to extend the walls of the classroom. I consider myself a global educator and have tried to articulate my ideas on why this is a different role to traditional teaching.

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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

There’s a difference however, in that we’re more about performance than learning, and so our use of performance support and the network in lieu of learning is more acceptable than what we might expect in schools (though they too should start looking at the role of networks and cognitive tools). What are your experiences?

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CLARK QUINN – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

Learnnovators

There’s a difference however, in that we’re more about performance than learning, and so our use of performance support and the network in lieu of learning is more acceptable than what we might expect in schools (though they too should start looking at the role of networks and cognitive tools). What are your experiences?