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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Using FaceBook

Learning Visions

Tuesday, June 19, 2007 Using FaceBook Im trying to expand my horizons a bit these days and have been taking a closer look at a whole bunch of tools out there, including SecondLife and FaceBook. FaceBook seems like such a student-world application, and yet folks say more and more "grown-ups" are using it. Have you looked at ning?

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4 Ways to Apply the Situated Learning Theory

Origin Learning

Role Playing. Learning happens through the actions involved in everyday situations where employees have to play certain roles – a sales representative, a marketing expert, the operations manager, an HR executive and so on. To do this, one must recast their role from a teacher to a facilitator.

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Non-verbal communication for online facilitators

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

If you role model online showing your emotions others will also be likely to follow. But it could also be that you can see who is online ( for instance in Ning or Facebook you can see who is connected, or also on Skype ). If this participant logs on but posts nothing, it may be a sign that something is wrong.

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Top 100 eLearning Items

Tony Karrer

Try Before You Buy Tools Used Better Conferences - Response Needed Roles in CoP's The science of learning Learning 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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Tool Time: To Each His Own

bozarthzone

I like Twitter because I am in a very isolating work role and have found it a wonderful way to connect with other L&D professionals and writers. I also still like Facebook and Twitter just fine, too. Or Ning groups. As I've said before: Don't like Facebook, Twitter, or Google+? Why would a college student use Twitter?

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Top 68 eLearning Posts from April - Hot Topics iPad Google Buzz

eLearning Learning Posts

Key Social Learning Roles - Daretoshare , April 4, 2010 Premise : Learning communities or networks thrive because its members possess certain skills and capabilities. Community members should be able to perform one or more of the five roles described in the table that follows. Facebook Press Room. Facebook for Learning?

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Online social networks, learning and viral expansion loops

Sticky Learning

For me though I see a real role for social media as a platform for business learning. One day Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook , no doubt on the first day there were only a handful of users. Facebook would never have worked if users hadn't brought in their existing networks of family and friends.