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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

Her topic– personal learning networks, also known as PLNs. Here is a way for people to turn their interest in lifelong, independent learning AND social connections into a way of life. Educators today are pursuing professional development by building their very own Professional (or Personal) Learning Networks (PLNs).

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

Her topic– personal learning networks, also known as PLNs. Here is a way for people to turn their interest in lifelong, independent learning AND social connections into a way of life. Educators today are pursuing professional development by building their very own Professional (or Personal) Learning Networks (PLNs).

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Social Networking

Tony Karrer

I've run across a couple of interesting posts recently that seem to have spawned from a Business Week article - Scaling the Social Web. Hasn't eBay had social networking features for a long time? And doesn't Flickr (images), del.icio.us (bookmarks), etc. all have a social networking aspect to them?

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Learning Organizations, eLearning 2.0 and Edupunk

Clark Quinn

If you have a population of learners who have already adopted tools (such as blogging and social bookmarking) for themselves that are different than the corporate tool (the LMS) do you ask them to move? Hopefully, we'll begin to see ways to allow a better handling of inside and outside the firewall solutions.

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Learning Organizations, eLearning 2.0 and Edupunk

Tony Karrer

If you have a population of learners who have already adopted tools (such as blogging and social bookmarking) for themselves that are different than the corporate tool (the LMS) do you ask them to move? Hopefully, we'll begin to see ways to allow a better handling of inside and outside the firewall solutions.

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Top 100 Tools For Learning 2010 – C4LPT Survey

Upside Learning

Delicious – social bookmarking tool. Facebook – social networking site. Some observations: The top 10 is like a who’s who of social and informal learning tools. We have seen clients choosing rapid development tools over custom Flash built solutions purely for cost reasons. Google Reader – RSS feed reader.

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Social Software Adoption

Tony Karrer

And my personal experience is that it's pretty rare to run into an organization that is not at least planning on adopting some social software solutions. Deployment vs. Adoption But it's important to keep in mind that deployment of social software does not mean adoption / use. And I'm certainly seeing a lot of SharePoint.