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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

Torrey Trust is my guest blogger. Here is a way for people to turn their interest in lifelong, independent learning AND social connections into a way of life. A PLN is “a system of interpersonal connections and resources that support informal learning” (Trust, 2012). Social bookmarking tools (i.e., What is a PLN?

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

Torrey Trust is my guest blogger. Here is a way for people to turn their interest in lifelong, independent learning AND social connections into a way of life. A PLN is “a system of interpersonal connections and resources that support informal learning” (Trust, 2012). Social bookmarking tools (i.e., What is a PLN?

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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. When you bookmark on delicious, you can also see how others have tagged it. External processes. Contribute.

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The 3 keys to successful remote training

Matrix

Additionally, social media can be an excellent resource for finding information on best practices or connecting with other professionals in your field. Finally, social bookmarking sites like Pinterest and Reddit can help employees training remotely to find relevant articles on topics of interest. . In summary.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Did You Know: knol = a unit of knowledge?

Mark Oehlert

" Hmmm.sounds like an awful lot of trust there. Am I splitting hairs or is ther some significantly different about making a personal decision to trust a company like Google with my email and trusting that same commercial enterprise with what could grow to be a fairly significant sum of knowledge (millions of of KNOLs)?

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Quechup invite? RUN AWAY!!!!!!

Mark Oehlert

which also implicates Rapleaf and UpScoop in some decidedly less nasty but undeniably murky behaviors (They are owned by a company that sells data to marketers), makes me wonder about trust in your social network being a very valuable online commodity. Clay Shirky My latest additions to del.icio.us books futures Web 2.0

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Semi-Daily Quote/Lyric/Words of Others

Mark Oehlert

I didn't go to church today, I trust the Lord to understand. Clay Shirky My latest additions to del.icio.us stuff Here are some of my main del.icio.us The Lewin Links This link should take you to the page I have on del.icio.us The surf was swirling blue and white, The children swirling on the sand.