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Daily Bookmarks 06/25/2008

Experiencing eLearning

Social networks ‘teaching tech skills’ - vnunet.com. Brief summary of research on the educational benefits of sites like MySpace and Facebook for high schoolers. Students self-report learning 21st century skills, although the study doesn’t attempt to actually measure any of that learning.

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How Millennials Connect to Mobile Learning

LearnDash

This means that older Millennials, who are now in their late thirties, are beginning to move into more significant leadership roles within their organization, while younger Millennials are seeking skills that will make them more attractive on the job market. Make it social. However, the best social media platforms are also highly mobile.

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Employee Spotlight : Kat Bajno-Atkinson

OpenSesame

For software engineer Kat Bajno-Atkinson, joining OpenSesame’s engineering team has meant the opportunity to grow her skills at every turn. My skills are always challenged, but I have my team’s support. I had my first taste of programming in fifth grade when I taught myself how to modify HTML & CSS to make MySpace layouts.

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Using Content Distribution to Market E-Learning

LearnDash

Let’s say the website goes the way of MySpace. But if you’ve spent enough time on your own blog honing your writing skills and refining your message, you’re much more likely to pull this step off. The content you publish on your own site belongs to you. All the posts you made go with it, as does the audience you worked to generate.

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Hassenzahl’s Model and eLearning – Part 2

Upside Learning

Products/services like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, etc. It’s also the simple human urge to improve skills. This is because we use products/services/objects to express ourselves. This is a secondary function – to communicate your identity to others. Another attribute included in the model is ‘evocation’.

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Why I left Linkedin

Saffron Interactive

By “one”, Tom was referring to LinkedIn’s classification as a “social media” platform, lumped in with Facebook, Twitter, Yammer, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster and the rest. Surely it makes sense for a professional networking service to align itself more closely with professional growth, teaching and certifying skills taught through its platform?

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Virtual clans

Learning with e's

Another example is the social networking tribe which boasts many clans, such as the MySpace clan, the Bebo clan, the YouTube clan and so on. Flickrites are more likely to trade in affirmative comments, the ‘favouriting’ of attractive images and the awarding of prizes in mutual celebration of each other’s photographic skills.