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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

The information aggregation tools are used to collect and organize information from various resources (websites, podcasts, blogs). RSS (really simple syndication) readers and social bookmarking are two popular information aggregation tools. Social bookmarking tools (i.e., Social Bookmarking.

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

The information aggregation tools are used to collect and organize information from various resources (websites, podcasts, blogs). RSS (really simple syndication) readers and social bookmarking are two popular information aggregation tools. Social bookmarking tools (i.e., Social Bookmarking.

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Some Tools for Social Learning and How they Help Learning

Kapp Notes

A wiki is a self-organizing knowledge web site. It is so named because of the speed in which wiki software allows someone to update the web site. Social Bookmarking. Podcasting. A wiki is a discussion. Wiki software allows users to create, edit and link web pages easily. Quickly asking a question. SlideShare.

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Digital literacy 6: Organising and sharing content

Learning with e's

The very act of creating content, whether it is a video, blogpost or podcast, is often with the intention that it will be shared in some way, usually on the web. Now we have the social web, there are more ways than ever to make your content available to a vast audience. This is more than just bookmarking.

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Models for Learning Questions

Tony Karrer

As a side note, I think selling Twitter/Yammer is harder than selling social bookmarking and wikis. Social bookmarking and wikis are often a smart replacement with obvious side benefits. Most of the time, there's pretty clear separation between private and public sites in terms of your goals and use cases.

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Tools Used

Clark Quinn

The charts below show use of different tools, sites, etc. Virginia asked what the "other tools" were: Plaxo, YouTube, LearningTown, del.icio.us/delicious, Keywords: Podcasts, Twitter, Slideshare, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, Facebook, Wiki, RSS, RSS Reader, Wikipedia, delicious, del.icio.us, blogs. More coming on this.

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Cognitive Psychology Anyone?

The eLearning Coach

With this in mind, here are a few sites that feature cognitive psychology podcasts, research, articles and news. I’m even sneaking in a few brain science sites for the true believers. Brain Science Podcast. I’d call this site simple to use and effective. Share this on del.icio.us. Psych Files.