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My Top 10 Tools for Learning 2011

Jane Hart

7 – In 2007, I used PBWiki (now known as PBWorks) to build collaboration spaces with my colleagues, now 5 years on Google Docs is my collaboration tool of choice, and defintely on my Top 10 Tools list. Polldaddy is now owned by WordPress so I see it now as just another WordPress plugin.

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6 Ways to Add Sizzle to Your Classroom

Learning Rebels

Unless you are discussing company policy that is not open for discussion (and I would ask you, why in the world are you hosting a class?) – allow and embrace debate. If people aren’t wanting to debate, seed the discussion. Providing people with reasons to absorb content helps them to connect the dots.

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Keeping Up - April's Big Question

eLearning Cyclops

I also like to make occasional visits to Google Labs and Adobe Labs to "keep up" with the tech tools they are working on and to test drive any beta versions available.

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Remote Collaboration

Tony Karrer

At the core, when I look at what a team needs, it's a pretty simple list: Real-time Voice Screen Sharing Document Editing (sometimes) Asynchronous Share / collaborate on documents, web pages Discussion Notification Of course, I'm simplifying by leaving out things like video chat, recording, etc. You could see where people are working.

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Firewalls and Security in Software as a Service

Tony Karrer

Thus, while we are excited about wikis, blogs, discussion groups, etc., We had no trouble with our PBWiki. One of the interesting outcomes of my recent course - Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Elluminate did not work through several firewalls, so we had to switch to WebEx. Instead, we should have used Del.icio.us.

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Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary

Tony Karrer

Final week was a summary discussion The participants in the class were corporate learning professionals from a variety of medium to large organizations. However, I found little value over using separate tools such as Yahoo Groups and a PBWiki. This worked very well and sparked interesting discussions each week. Limit class size.

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We Need a Wiki in a Wiki

eLearning Blender

This is still being discussed but not looking good. There are quite a few hosted solutions that specialize in Media Wiki and I have also been referred to PBWiki and Project Forum. Hosted solution – This is what I am leaning towards at this point. There are a ton of free hosted solutions that will most likely get the job done for us.

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