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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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6 Most Important Things You Can Do Before Developing An eLearning Course

SHIFT eLearning

Project management tools such as group instant messaging software can help your team interact quickly. Will you have project team meetings? If so, how will they be held? Who will participate? Will there be rules for communication among team members? Define Common Terms and Concepts.

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Top 100 Tools For Learning 2010 – C4LPT Survey

Upside Learning

Skype – instant messaging and VoIP call tool. YouTube – video hosting and sharing tool. GoogleDocs – online collaboration tool. Delicious – social bookmarking tool. Slideshare – presentation hosting and sharing tool. Google Reader – RSS feed reader. Wordpress – blogging tool. Facebook – social networking site.

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Cisco releases Jabber

Jane Hart

Cisco has just released Cisco Jabber “a unified communications application that brings together presence, instant messaging (IM), voice and video, voice messaging, desktop sharing and conferencing into a single consistent experience across PCs, Macs, tablets and smart phones.

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Twitter’s Impact on Your Brain-Same as Bilingualism

Kapp Notes

This is much like what people do when they’re updating their Twitter status, instant-messaging friends, or answering text messages and emails while they’re doing something else. “Practice at constant switching improves an aspect of their cognitive abilities.

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eLearning Development: Haste Makes Waste

Upside Learning

We’re getting used to instant search, instant news, instant messages, instant updates, instant food, instant banking, and instant everything. In this world of instant gratification sometimes we need to take a moment and think is everything really necessary ‘now’? Make haste slowly.

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The Importance of Informal Learning at the Workplace

Origin Learning

The advent of social learning is just an off-shoot of the original forums and the friendly banter there though to a wider more open audience now with all the bells and whistles of apps, emojis, stickers, instant messaging etc. Learning from the Pioneers.