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The Return of the (Digital) Native | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Textbooks, blackboards, and overhead projectors remain the tools of choice for many teachers, at a time when their students are geared to learn from iPads, PowerPoint, and instant messaging. The result is a lost message, and a lost opportunity.

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Hike: How Free Offline Messaging Works

Origin Learning

With the coming of affordable 2G and 3G networks for mobiles , it is like we have been hardwired to Instant Messaging (IM) on our phones. In fact, IM applications have evolved to provide much more than simple text-and-emoticon messaging. The way messaging works without internet within Hike is interesting.

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Set Yourself up for Productivity

Vitalyst

For example, instead of sending files back and forth or taking turns editing a file saved on a network or cloud drive, this feature enables you and your colleagues to get to work much more quickly. Be sure to take a practice run with colleagues to ensure you understand the feature’s nuances.

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Set Yourself up for Productivity

Vitalyst

For example, instead of sending files back and forth or taking turns editing a file saved on a network or cloud drive, this feature enables you and your colleagues to get to work much more quickly. Be sure to take a practice run with colleagues to ensure you understand the feature’s nuances.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Gin System

Learning Visions

It seems to me that FaceBook is a great networking tool. Then again, perhaps Im missing something. Gin" stands for Group Interactive Network. It seems to me that a system like this could provide some of the networking that FaceBook provides -- within an organization -- and provide a lot of content. Have you heard of it?

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Come Together

Jay Cross

The use of instant messaging migrated from high school to corporate life. For example, bloggers may not communicate well with IM users. Proprietary videoconferencing packages transmitted video back and forth, but most people stopped watching the pictures once the novelty wore off. Then, along came the Internet.

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Train your team online: Boost workplace productivity with group learning strategies

eFront

And as communication with their group and coordination is also done online through messaging, forums, file sharing, emails, IM, etc., Messages and internal notifications are another handy feature for group learning in eFrontPro. You could, of course, use a dedicated Instant Messaging solution too for the same purpose.