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Teaching the Social Web

eLearning Development

I’ve seen discussions and blog posts about appropriate use of social tools like Facebook , Twitter , LinkedIn and FriendFeed in the workplace. If kids, and I mean pre-teen kids, can learn to research online using government web sites and Wikipedia, then shouldn’t they also learn about how to use social sites for learning?

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Hot List - April 1, 2009 to April 11, 2009

Tony Karrer

A learning portal is a web site that contains links to all different types of learning and training materials for employees at an organization. In case this is a new term, the definition of wirearchy is posted on the top right of my site. Tags: Tools. In the same way that everything has [.].Tags:

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Google Buzz in eLearning

Upside Learning

Buzz can also aggregate content from other social sharing sites, Flicks, Picasa, Twitter, and YouTube. Every Buzz item can be turned into a conversation (like in Friendfeed or Wave.) Tags: Future Learning Workplace Learning eLearning Google Buzz Google Buzz and eLearning Google Buzz in eLearning.

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News Commentary Curation Distribution

Tony Karrer

Do they pull all the content into the central site or leave it distributed on the original source? Human tagging? While he's talking primarily about feeds of updates, e.g., facebook, twitter, friendfeed, etc., Organization and Access - how do they organize the content. How do you access it? by Nick O'Neill.

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Informal Learning Flow

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

For generalized answers to “What’s happening?&# , they visit sites like Original Signal , Digg , PopURLs , or Buzzfeed , where poplar items rise to the top. I follow people on blogs, Twitter and Friendfeed. For the past couple of days, I’ve been consuming knowledge from a site that better fits how I learn.

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Streams, not blogs?

Jay Cross

While I write a couple of public-facing blogs, Internet Time and the Informal Learning Blog , I spend more time participating in group discussions, writing comments, making online presentations, adding descriptions on sites like Flickr, posting to my wiki , and so forth. Tags: Just Jay. Dialog trumps monolog. Any thoughts?

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Re-orientation

Jay Cross

The top section is Flow : aggregators; my favorite read is a river of learning news and I’m toying with Tony Karrer’s eLearning Learning , but often I click the link to FriendFeed or Twitter. Other tools I could not do without: Google Desktop Search: find anything on your computer or web sites really, really fast.

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