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Social Media for Trainers: Blog Book Tour Stop #5

Learning Visions

The Social Media train in on the move – and here we are at stop #5 of the Social Media for Trainers: Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning, (2010), Pfeiffer blog book tour. What is Social Media for Trainers? link lets you download a recording of our Elluminate session). Get yourself a copy!

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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. Webinar tools include Elluminate (now known as Blackboard Collaborate), WebEx and Adobe Connect all of which have similar screen topographies and perform similar functions, but all have an associated cost.

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Keeping Up - April's Big Question

eLearning Cyclops

Tagged either under Development Tools or Cloud. It is tough to stay on top of all the great stuff being offered out there, but the blogs and social media certainly help. When I do find interesting tools I will keep track of them using my Delicious account.

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Crossing the divide

Learning with e's

In essence, it is the ability to be able to create content, organise, share and communicate across, and through, a variety of social media, discussion groups, mobile tools and other services that are commonly available. Tags: digital literacies Second Life Twitter FaceBook digital literacy. Unported License.

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FAQ for Learntrends April 21-22

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Click here to enter our conferencing system (Elluminate). Plug in a microphone and check your audio settings in Elluminate. Get the feel of what social media is all about. Experience with Elluminate is a plus but not mandatory. Tags: need. You don’t need to register. How do I listen in? How do I speak?

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Top 70 eLearning Posts for June and Hot Topics including iPad and Mobile Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

Social Media and Social Network Educational Infographics - Dont Waste Your Time , June 15, 2010 I am seeing and reading so many blog posts and tweets with someone trying to explain what is a Social Network, or what is a PLN/PLE. However, in this case the majority wasn’t actively using social media.

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Four Reasons you need structure for informal learning

Xyleme

User tagging is an important aspect of sharing content that many social media tools promote. Structure allows us to make sense of information by defining a limited and logical set of tags to describe a set of content. Just because someone has a questions doesn’t mean they have to be prioritized. It was distracting.”