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Summer Academy 2008 Bloomsburg University

Kapp Notes

I really enjoy speaking with academics because they always ask insightful and thought provoking questions and challenge assumptions and ideas so that it is a real intellectual exchange of information and not a one-way monologue. Just scroll down the page for wonderful information.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Half of Companies Blocking Facebook

Learning Visions

This August 21 article posted by Sharon Gaudin in Information Week reports that Half of Companies are Blocking Facebook: "Employers are increasingly blocking access to Facebook because theyre concerned about the time wasted and the information leaked when workers use social networks on company time." Interesting post!

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Definition: Metaverse

Kapp Notes

According to wikipedia, a metaverse can be defined as follows: The Metaverse, a phrase coined by Neal Stephenson's science fiction novel Snow Crash (1992) constitutes Stephenson's vision of how a virtual reality-based Internet might evolve in the near future. In a metaverse all the characters are tied directly to an actual person.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: I Heart My Wiki

Learning Visions

All of my project information is in one place. Folks I have talked to resist the idea of the wiki -- they think wikipedia, they think "amateurs" trashing your content. Ive had to get used to the formatting -- or lack thereof. Im a Word power-user and love all the little tricks and shortcuts. I miss them. But the payoff is huge.

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The Pros of Social Media for E-Learning

Rapid eLearning

Wikipedia has a good detailed definition of social media. I see it as technology that allows people to connect and share information. Look at some of the recent raves about Pokemon Go by the same people who were peddling Second Life just a few years ago. What is Social Media? New ways to connect and share are good.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Market Differences in eLearning

Learning Visions

Did my wikipedia scan and saw much, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Mark, I wondered if the Wikipedia entry would be too obscure. No real need yet. I need an answer to your love of 42 however. What gives. Oddly, I once awoke having a dream (vision) of the number 42. 11:30 AM Cammy Bean said. United States License.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Big Basket of Stuff #1: Wikis, IMs, and 3D

Mark Oehlert

Agencies Share Information By Taking a Page From Wikipedia : "Thats right, the Office of Management and Budget, where caution and precision rule, has embraced Wikipedia as a model, hosting an online place where federal officials can swap information and ideas outside traditional boundaries."

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