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TCC08: Creating and Teaching a College-Level Undergraduate Course in Social Networking

Experiencing eLearning

Many businesses consider time on social networking sites wasted, but not all. Social networking sites will continue to be important, but they require active leadership. Google Sites for the wiki. Plaxo–aggregating from multiple social sites. Social networking sites will reflect changing roles in online engagement.

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Roles in CoP's

The Learning Circuits

In my role as blogmeister for LCB I've done a lot of reading in the communities of practice literature to gain a better understanding of how online communities work. One model I've developed is around the roles and interactions members of a community have as participants in that community. What can be done to enhance the community?

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Does anyone else see "Student Records" in "Data Portability"?

Mark Oehlert

I do like this explanation of the functionality from PC World : "The way it works is any site that wants to can add Friend Connect functionality to their site can simply by adding a bit of HTML code to their site. Tech Crunch , ZDNet Blogs , CNET News , NYTimes , PC World , actual Google Press Release ).

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brain-mind learning principles

The Learning Circuits

in exploring the new horizons for learning site, i came across an interesting set of articles by renate nummela caine and geoffrey caine. i particularly found it interesting that they included #3 (search for meaning in innate) and #5 (the role of emotions). their twelve principles are: All learning is physiological.

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Finders keepers, losers weepers

Clive on Learning

Attempts at the hierarchical organisation of information on web sites is confounded by the fact that most people now find content through searching and by following links from other content - the home page becoming less and less relevant. Intelligence is provided by real people from the bottom-up to aid social discovery.

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Online Networking in Courses

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

Technorati Tags: CDTL07 , myspace , socialnetworking , e-learning , onlinelearning , highered , education , lms , web2.0 Things you can do from here: Visit the original item on Experiencing E-Learning Subscribe to Experiencing E-Learning using Google Reader Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites

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First Experience with Usability Testing

Experiencing eLearning

We also have 2 people who are testing both systems; one in the student role (thanks Mom!) Part of the problem was just not having the actual site completed when I was writing the directions; we hadn’t made all the layout and design decisions when I started writing. Technorati Tags: usability , testing , design , interface.