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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

Torrey Trust is my guest blogger. A PLN is “a system of interpersonal connections and resources that support informal learning” (Trust, 2012). In addition to the popular social media tools ( Facebook , Edmodo , Twitter ), there are also interest-based groups, including Ning and Google/Yahoo! Torrey Trust has a M.A.

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

Torrey Trust is my guest blogger. A PLN is “a system of interpersonal connections and resources that support informal learning” (Trust, 2012). In addition to the popular social media tools ( Facebook , Edmodo , Twitter ), there are also interest-based groups, including Ning and Google/Yahoo! Torrey Trust has a M.A.

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LearnTrends: Personal Knowledge Management

Experiencing eLearning

Interesting discussion in the chat about whether if you don’t pay for services if you can trust it. I asked if that included open source tools too–basically he trusts libre tools but not gratis ones. External processes. Contribute. Harold uses different tools for different purposes. Google Reader to pull everything in.

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Command-and-Control Leadership vs. People-Centered Leadership

The Performance Improvement Blog

Given the large number of books, articles, blogs , and nings written about employee engagement and people-centered management, you’d think that the command-and-control style of leadership had gone   the way of the ivory-billed woodpecker. line item for travel) before they have earned the trust of their employees.

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How to Harness Informal Learning

Rob Hubbard

a Ning network), using wikis and blogs. Organisations have to trust their employees, which is not an easy thing to do and, in many cases, change the way that they perceive learning altogether. Some ideas include creating knowledge bases by building networks (e.g. Embracing informal learning is a leap of faith.

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Answer the Call for Authentic Leadership

CLO Magazine

They want to develop their ability to be more inspiring, more trusted and a confidence. ning build a commitment to self-awareness and. Bitouzet said most leaders are w. illing to leave behind the idea that they can. acquire or hone their leadership ability via a two-minu. te class, a set of quick recipes, or just by being. themselves.

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Teaching the Social Web

eLearning Development

The overall theme of my response was trust and communication. If you build trust and communicate openly, you can avoid a lot of problems and pitfalls. People talk about the same themes I did in my response: Trust and Communication. Do we trust people to be responsible in the workplace?

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