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Weekly Bookmarks (5/9/2011)

Experiencing eLearning

Icon Search Engine | Iconfinder. Check licenses; some are Creative Commons, some are free for commercial use, some are personal use only. Posted from Diigo. The table at the end with a list of schools, programs, and costs is very helpful. tags: newid instructionaldesign e-learning highered career. Hundreds of icon sets.

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Build a powerful PLN

Learning with e's

Another way to find people who have a similar interest to you is to subscribe to a social bookmarking tool such as Diigo or Delicious. By searching and then saving useful website addresses to Diigo or Delicious, you will automatically be presented with links to other people who have also found the site interesting.

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Mobile content curation

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Google and other advanced search engines ensure that. In my personal opinion, perhaps the most useful and versatile curation tool is Diigo , which enables you to do all of the above, and also take snapshots of websites so you can revisit them, even if they suddenly disappear. Finding what you want is usually quite simple.

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The great collective

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Search engines have their place, and of course, we tend to use them a lot. Some of the more intelligent search engines are morphing into answer machines, computing your question against highly structured data (see for example Wolfram Alpha ), but often, for busy professionals, even this is not enough. Anyone can be a digital curator.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Smell of Books

Learning Visions

The article is mostly about Google Book Search, the massive project to "build a comprehensive index of all the books in the world." and diigo for example. Imagine if Martin Luther or John Adams had used diigo. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0

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Freinet and social media

Learning with e's

Search around and you won''t find much about Freinet in English - what there is about him on the Web is mainly in French. Using voting tools such as Digg and organising tools such as Diigo and Delicious can aid this process, as can the like and +1 buttons of Facebook and Google Plus. He purchased and ran his own printing press.