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Microsoft So.cl: An Experiment In Social + Search + Learning

Upside Learning

Last week Microsoft launched a new network called so.cl – pronounced ‘social’ – which is being discussed all over the web. It is described as “an experimental research project, developed by Microsoft’s FUSE Labs, focused on exploring the possibilities of social search for the purpose of learning.”

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Competition Finalist 4: Top 10 Startup Social Media Curation Tools for Social Learning in the Workplace

eFront

You can use videos, blogs, books, documents, images, anything to explain how to learn something. Use Learnist to share what you know and learn new things. Create Learning Boards on topics you understand and add learning by pointing to videos, blogs, images and documents on the web.

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Social Media Offerings which can b used in Social Learning

eLearning 24-7

Bi-weekly updates, which can be found on the “Social Media Page&# under my Essentials section, that debuts on Monday. With the exception of crowdsourcing, all other social media types can be used in social learning. Social News Aggregator - Digg. Social Q&A - Askville or Answers.com.

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Going Dutch

Learning with e's

I have been invited to speak at the Networks, Communities and Learning Conference Bazaar at the University of Utrecht , in Holland on December 14th. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Tags: communities Second Life University of Utrecht Bazaar learning Networks.

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Workscaping, part 3 of n

Jay Cross

All of which makes it irrelevant to learn long division, how to take cube roots, or logarithms. Once I had to learn most of the things required to do my job; now I need to know where to retrieve them. I search or ask people when I need to know. Or course, many times we have already learned a skill through experience.

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LMS/LCMS Social Media & Side Notes

eLearning 24-7

Social News Aggregator - Digg. Social Q&A - Askville or Answers.com. Social Search – Bing Twitter. Social Measuring - Technorati. Open Social – APis, open source – while this necessarily isn’t social media, it will enable multi-faceted social media features and capabilities.