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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

These tools are useful for staying up-to-date on recent news, best practices, and theories in the field of Education. RSS (really simple syndication) readers and social bookmarking are two popular information aggregation tools. Social bookmarking tools (i.e., Ning is a fully functional social networking site.

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

These tools are useful for staying up-to-date on recent news, best practices, and theories in the field of Education. RSS (really simple syndication) readers and social bookmarking are two popular information aggregation tools. Social bookmarking tools (i.e., Ning is a fully functional social networking site.

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The 10 basic online tools every trainer and online facilitator should know

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

I have good news: I can recommend a group of 10 tools that are so useful that each facilitator needs to know them and should be able to use them. The bad news is that for every tool also is another alternative. Diigo - or any other social bookmarker Diigo is very important to keep track off your online sources.

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Social Media and Social Learning – Where R We now?

eLearning 24-7

And, let us clear up another point: social learning is not just social networking. I hate when people see it as only Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin. For fun, they toss in YouTube and say – look we know what social learning is for the masses. Here is the latest data on social media (as of Oct.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): "Object-Centered Sociality" or What is Really at the Heart of Social Networks

Mark Oehlert

Now I saw this post in the Adaptive Path blog like a week or two ago; " The Shelf Life of Social Networks." " The post seems to be asking about why there seems to be a rise and fall to social networks and should we worry about that or just go along with it. Clay Shirky My latest additions to del.icio.us

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Social Media and Social Learning – Where R We now?

eLearning 24-7

And, let us clear up another point: social learning is not just social networking. I hate when people see it as only Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin. For fun, they toss in YouTube and say – look we know what social learning is for the masses. Here is the latest data on social media (as of Oct.

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Saffron launches new social learning platform

Saffron Interactive

At next week’s Learning Technologies Exhibition Saffron Interactive (Stand 33) will be demonstrating Saffron Share, a corporate social network, personal portfolio and community knowledge base for collaboration and ‘just-in-time’ learning. The product is based on the open source Elgg social networking engine.