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2016 Top Tools for Learning

Performance Learning Productivity

I use Facebook for family and personal friends, and Twitter for my professional social network. Google Search: ‘Professor’ Google is still the person I call on whenever I need a quick answer to a question or problem. Google Scholar: Scholar opens a rich world of academic work at the click of a button.

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Keeping Up - April's Big Question

eLearning Cyclops

This is in reference the immense and rapidly expanding technology tools. It is tough to stay on top of all the great stuff being offered out there, but the blogs and social media certainly help. April's Big Question from Learning Circuits is "How to Keep up?" It is tough to stay on top of all the emerging tools.

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Interview with Terry Anderson

Learning with e's

His work around the study of social and cognitive presence in distance learning contexts has been cited many times, and his research has led to a number of high profile keynote speech invitations around the globe. I’m especially interested in social media that can be used to go beyond the often institutional centric LMS systems.

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Down to a 't'

Learning with e's

Google Scholar is a very useful tool if you are in the business of research. Social Software and was published in Health Information and Libraries Journal. Social Software and was published in Health Information and Libraries Journal. Simply paste this reference into Google and you will see what I mean: Boulos, K.

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The intentional marginalization of blogging in the corporate learning sector

Janet Clarey

In my opinion, blogs are frequently viewed as a joke because of the author’s attachment to them and the whole idea that one cannot have a true social connection with online “friends&# (quotations are theirs). Within the article there’s a reference to “subject matter networks&# with no attribution.

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Multi-Generational Learning in the Workplace

Janet Clarey

Google, Google Scholar, and Wikipedia for homework, the school’s VLE/LMS, instant message, text, profile on a social networking service like Facebook or MySpace.). References all hodgepodge and not APA because I’m not getting graded for this post: Baird, D.E. & Multi Generational Learning.