InSync Training

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

This week, we continue our series by diving deeper into social and community tools and apps. We use social media to share content, communicate, and interact. Instead of sharing my preferences of specific tools ( LinkedIn , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram , Pinterest , Slack , Yammer , etc.),

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OpenSesame

OCTOBER 10, 2011

As a social media enthusiast, I’m eager to demonstrate the incredible value that social networks can offer to people – who are isolated physically – in connecting them to communities of practice who share their interests and challenges. My series of blog posts on social learning.

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Janet Clarey

AUGUST 19, 2009

.&#. and this one “ideal online community&# : Le slides: Using Social Media Tools To Improve Workplace Learning. Couple of additional notes from the presentation: Most of us reported a dramatic change in the way we communicate, collaborate, and interact at work over the last 10 years. Innsbruck, Austria. Digenti, D.

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Adobe Captivate

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Chapter 9: “ Like, Comment, Share: Collaboration and Civic Engagement Within Social Network Sites ,” by Greenhow and Lee, in Emerging Technologies for the Classroom: A Learning Sciences Perspective. Social media and social networking sites allow individuals and groups to collaborate and learn together.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 13, 2011

An instructional designer by profession who started her career anlayzing learner needs, creating micro-design documents, writing story-boards and discussing the nitty-gritty of course navigation with visual designers, I have long been interested in the power of social, collaborative and informal learning. The age of social learning is here.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Here's what he said: There is often an impression, especially from those on the outside looking in, that time spent on social media is time wasted. But there are times when I am on social media, trawling through my timelines, that I feel it is time spent on worthwhile reading, thinking and doing.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 21, 2014

I went on public record several times this year to say that the best continuing professional development (CPD) I have ever received has been through Twitter. Now it depends on how you define CPD, but for me it is the personal learning you require to sustain, enhance and extend your own capabilities within your professional practice.

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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

I started working within the framework of knowledge management and communities of practice. And communities are hijacked by the marketeers for client communities. Communities of practice as still a very powerful environment to stimulate professional innovation at an individual and collective level.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

So Milgram''s notion of six degrees is not so much a theory of learning, more a social contact theory, but it has significant implications for learning in the social media age. Milgram theorised that it could be established that no-one is separated from anyone else in the world by more than six social contacts.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 11/28/2010 The most updated and informative e-Learning community on Twitter On Twitter exists a resourceful community of e-Learning professionals. social learning - experimentação.

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Adobe Captivate

APRIL 22, 2019

So much of what we learn comes from informal interactions with the people we know, whether we’re interacting in person or through social media. Here are some ways we can do that: Create communities of practice that either meet in person or virtually. Please share in the comments section.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 4, 2009

I’ll have to admit, I have mixed feelings about Twitter (and much of the other social media). On one hand, I really love to play around with all of the new social media tools and am excited about what’s going on and the potential for learning. A lot of this social media stuff can be distracting and a waste of time.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 22, 2014

In this post, I extend this idea into the work Lave did with Etienne Wenger, which has become known as Communities of Practice. The work of Lave and Wenger advances this concept, turning its focus to the people who make up the learning communities we are all a part of. Unported License.

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Jane Hart

JUNE 1, 2011

First of all, although I had been a regular, if not a daily blogger, I found that I was spending more and more time sharing resources and links in Twitter that I didn’t have time to do my daily posts. So I decided to try an experiment and that was to use the Twitter Tools plugin in WordPress to create a daily digest of my tweets.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Entering the Contest Twitter 1. Follow me - @tonykarrer on twitter. Sorry if that turns out to be extra work, but I wanted a way to enter for those who don't use twitter. We will accept only one entry per blog and per twitter account. If you have a blog and a twitter account, you will have two chances to win.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 30, 2011

What are the ingredients of building a Community of Practice? Groups of individuals in same team, other teams, other companies even – they come together to improve their practice. Managers often don’t like words like ‘social’ and ‘collaboration’ – but ‘communities of practice’ seems to resonate.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 21, 2015

One major phenomenon of the last decade has undoubtedly been the global and exponential rise of social media. Seeded at the turn of the century, the social web phase of Internet development promoted connections, participation, networked sociality. 2013) The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Posted on the BERA blog , Peter Ford made the argument that unless academics and educationalists engage with classroom teachers on social media, they are in danger of being consigned to the periphery. The blogs themselves would be the room and the audience would be those who were connected through social media.

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The Learning Circuits

JULY 9, 2012

One of the best things about being an instructional designer right now is that now more than ever we feel that our field is in the zeitgeist of what's happening in the media and technology worlds. What we do (rather, how we do it) is influenced greatly by technologies that support more flexible means of communication and collaboration.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 3, 2011

But if you starve yourself of a social life, your relationships will die, and your life experience will be the poorer for it. And social media are the enablers. Yet many teachers and students see social networking tools as frivolous entertainment or ego massage. Well, I suppose you could always learn parrot fashion.

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ID Reflections

MARCH 11, 2012

I wouldn't be attending this conference if it weren't for social media. I was introduced to the work, ideas and blogs of most of the speakers via Twitter. What I have learned in the last 3 years have been completely via social media. Social, informal learning.

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Jane Hart

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

In a posting earlier in the summer, Jane Bozarth wrote a great little posting, “THIS is what social learning looks like&# , where she described what took place one evening on the live Twitter #blogchat. But too often there is talk of the need for “community management&#.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Are you a teacher who has managed to harness the power of social media to connect with peers and experts around the globe? Connected educators know that in doing this they become global educators, with their content being amplified across a worldwide community of practice. Are you a connected educator?

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Learning with e's

MARCH 16, 2014

Those who habituate into the use of Twitter for example, become adept at using it, and adopt the role of residents within that digital environment. They may not be such regular users of Facebook , so are more likely to be visitors rather than residents within that particular social media environment.

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Adobe Captivate

OCTOBER 16, 2017

I will also share some best practices. What is social learning? In simple terms, social learning is learning with and from others. This can either happen online (for instance over popular social media tools like LinkedIn, Twitter and so on) or offline (during group discussions, over coffee or during conferences).

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

We sat outside in the early spring sunshine of Portlaiose and discussed blogging, social media, the state of education, ideal schools of the future, innovation and technology, and a whole host of related topics. We also touched on youth culture, txt speak and digital literacies.

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Learning with e's

MAY 29, 2013

If you are immersed in technology mediated communication, there are no apparent barriers to membership of your community of practice. It is your virtual community. It is tribal because the global online community exhibits many of the characteristics of traditional, territorial tribal practice.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 31, 2009

I’ve been seeing a lot more social media icons on websites these days, and you may have noticed that I’ve recently added a few to this blog. Steven Bradley provides an enjoyable review of some of the negative sentiment out there that’s brooding over social media icons. Social media can help them do that.

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Jane Hart

AUGUST 27, 2012

So whilst e-business is about automation, social business is about innovation. Now, let’s be clear about what a social business is. A Social Business isn’t just a company that has a Facebook page and a Twitter account. Social learning. Trainees are often required to be social as part of an online programme.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

In effect, through the use of social media and telecommunication technologies, these teachers are becoming global educators. Twitter: This social networking tool is deceptively simple, but deeply sophisticated and versatile due to its inherent filtering facilities.

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TalentLMS

MAY 16, 2016

The boom in social media and the round-the-clock need to connect in communities is doing wonders for the eLearning industry. Social learning is an age-old learning and teaching strategy, backed by many cognitive scientists. New product or service designs are suggested, best practices are implemented.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 7, 2009

Mathemagenic " PhD conclusions in a thousand words: blogging practices of knowledge workers Web 2.0 Communities of Practice Facebook as a Learning Platform We Need a Degree in Instructional Design Learning styles don't exist 90-9-1 Rule aka 1% Rule in Collaborative Environments How long does it take to create learning?

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Tony Karrer

JULY 21, 2010

I’ll also reach out via twitter. Business Casual , October 29, 2008 Making Intranet Discussion Groups Effective - eLearning Technology , June 15, 2006 Requirement to Social Learning Adoption #2 - Compatibility - Engaged Learning , February 24, 2009 The Holy Trinity: Leadership Framework, Learning 2.0 & This is in process.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 2, 2012

For performers, there have never been more channels, stages and platforms upon which we can perform our knowledge than there are in today's media rich and internet aware society. Blogging and other user generated content practices enable us to focus our performance of knowledge and project it toward relevant peer groups.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2009

These are my notes from the Learn Trends: Networked and Social Learning online mini-conference. I wanted to actually participate in the chat and watch Twitter too, and I couldn’t juggle all of it at the same time. Measurement & ROI for Social & Network Learning. This can be the social network.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 12, 2008

Here are some terms that are getting more attention the first couple weeks this month (December 2008) include Social Media , eLearning Activity , Mobile Learning , Yugma , Slideshare , SharePoint , Twitter , 100 Conversations , Mzinga , and GeoLearning.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 28, 2015

One of the ways to keep on top of our game, and remain on the cutting edge of relevant skills and knowledge is to be a part of communities of practices and to focus on building and maintaining our PLNs with a deliberate intention to learn, share and collaborate. Each platform has its unique strengths and can be used accordingly.

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