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Jane Knight - Friday, July 4, 2008 - CommentsDawn of the Un-book
Today's activist readers pluck information from the blogosphere and YouTube and their friends on Facebook and MySpace. To prosper in times ahead, we need to re-conceptualize our relationship with books, the role of authors and how to make books better. The shorthand for what I have in mind is the "un-book." Here are some of the characteristics of un-books: ⬢ Un-books are guidebooks for knowledge explorers navigating the flow of the news, information, sound bites, observations, debate, hacks, diatribes and memes that are the Web ...
Internet Time - Monday, June 30, 2008 - CommentsCisco's Big Move to Social Networking - There Goes the Eye Medicine
Amy Kucharik from IT Knowledge Exchange reported Cisco's John Chambers rallying speech on how Cisco is implementing Social Networking, in a rather massive way. Cisco's Collaboration Strategy: Adding Vision to Social Networking."Major components of this collaboration scenario, according to Chambers, are social networking and video â¬" in fact, he said that "visual networking is the future.â¬ý But Chambers said Cisco plans to add vision to social networking, putting structure behind Web 2.0-type tools like Twitter or Facebook (he alluded to the way "kidsâ¬ý use social networking tools ...
Ray Jimenez - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - CommentsDaily Bookmarks 06/25/2008
Social networks ‘teaching tech skills’ - vnunet.com Brief summary of research on the educational benefits of sites like MySpace and Facebook for high schoolers. Students self-report learning 21st century skills, although the study doesn’t attempt to actually measure any of that learning. tags: socialnetworking, education, 21stcenturyskills, research, k-12 When asked what they learn by using social networking sites, the students listed ‘technology skills’, followed by ‘creativity’, being ‘open to new or diverse views’ and ...
Experiencing eLearning - Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - CommentsFrom Social Networking to Performance Widgets
... of a company to follow one another's activities on the corporate network.The new realizations from LinkedIn, FaceBook and even Microsoft suggest that to succeed inside businesses and enterprises, they need to go beyond simply social networking. They need to allow members to have tools to exploit the relationships and impact performance on the job.I consider these tools "learning and performance widgets".It's about time e-learning and training professionals look at their social networking initiative in the same way as LinkedIn ...
Ray Jimenez - Thursday, June 19, 2008 - CommentsMassive Catch-Up Issue #1413 (Games, Virtual Worlds, banking concepts and more)
... quot;My advice to all executives today is just get in there. Set up accounts at Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, Dopplr and Twitter. You can't begin to understand the real value (and therefore what the right approach is for your company and your customers) until you experience it for yourself." Ben 10 Alien Force Game Creator: So I find my 8 year old son hunched over his computer the other day and I say - wat'cha doin? And he says - "Building a game" - and he includes that little note of disdain like somehow I should have intuited that from his posture of something ...
e-Clippings (blogoehlert) - Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - CommentsNews and Updates
Here is some news and updates that came across my desk this week: The Udutu Facebook LMS, which I mentioned in a previous posting is now live. With the LMS, users can publish course material, control access, track "learner" progress, collect payment and see the results once users have completed a session -- all without ever leaving the Facebook site. There's a new feature in undone.leftcolumn.net: 'packages.' Packages let you archive projects and actions and make them available as templates for other people. The idea is that, for example, teachers can share course task ...
Jane Knight - Saturday, June 7, 2008 - CommentsLight, Agile and Flexible
... is your network + Little black book is the same mathematics as Facebook, IM, etc. - Tagging - short for non-structured organization of data / distributed organization of data. + Technorati - blog aggregator + The word that matches the resource (which means my tag is not so good) + Then you can have a whole bunch of resources that match that resource. Search to find that collection. + Tagging is the substitution of individual tastes for group taxonomies / predefined taxonomy + (really intelligent response to someone who didn't understand tagging and feared that it would ruin social skills) - Tagging provides one context for discussion of common themes ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - CommentsObjection #1: Socialize!
Just as MySpace and Facebook are social tools in personal lives, they are not the best examples of how people interact within an organization assuming they have similar tools (granted, there are some companies that use Facebook internally, but those companies are rare and those companies are not throwing up this objection). Most organizational tools aren’t as social as the previous examples. For example, you can’t poke another person. There normally is not a status update. There isn’t usually a spot to post your own pictures or videos on your profile page - or completely customize your profile page ...
Engaged Learning - Monday, June 2, 2008 - CommentsCreate Mobile Websites with Wirenode
... widget available for Facebook and Mobile Facebook. Awesome! Unlike Winksite, which is almost completely textual in both content and presentation, Wirenode incorporates media and interactivity, which may even be uploaded by the user, and there’s even an analytics tool for users who like to see how many visitors/students are checking out their mobile site. It’s a terrific tool to help teachers or students create and present information in a mobile format, and a must-see for other educators interested in utilising mobile devices for enhancing and supporting teaching and learning ...
Mobile Learning - Sunday, May 25, 2008 - CommentsNow over 2,300 tools in the Directory of Learning Tools
This week we added 18 tools to the Directory and have now listed over 2,300 tools. In addition to those already mentioned this week on the blog, here are a three more: Tweetcube - Allows you to share files on Twitter. Added to: Microblogging/Real-time messaging tools MyStudiyo - Create professional quizzes for your website or blogAdded to: Quizzing and Testing tools CourseFeed - Plug in integrates Facebook with your school's online learning management system Added to: Course & Learning Management System For the full list of tools added last week, see the Weekly ...
Jane Knight - Sunday, May 25, 2008 - CommentsA Speedbump for Social Learning
Facebook; to my knowledge, these applications don’t have a separate, secure, option for private business use. I hope this is just a speedbump for social learning, and I hope we start to see more options for social learning tools that can be considered safe for business use. These may be open-source options, behind-the-firewall installations, or even protected/secure options for internet-based applications. But either way, just make sure you do your homework before rolling out any new tool that communicates out openly to the internet ...
eLearning Weekly - Saturday, May 24, 2008 - CommentsCreate free quizzes for cellphones/ Facebook/ Moodle
8217;s also worth noting that quizzes can be made for Facebook, and if a walled garden is your course approach of choice ... %2Fmlearning.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F05%2F24%2Fcreate-free-quizzes-for-cellphones-facebook-moodle%2F'; addthis_title = 'Create+free+quizzes+for+cellphones%2F+Facebook%2F+Moodle'; addthis_pub = ''; ...
Mobile Learning - Friday, May 23, 2008 - CommentsMy Life and Times in Social Media
Facebook anyone?).- A weakening of my grasp of the English language :' )All I was truly expecting was some sanity control and an opportunity to flesh some things out. Writing in a public forum forces you to process and present information in a different way than just writing for yourself. The exercise has been more valuable than I would have dreamed.Good luck Karyn!
In the Middle of the Curve - Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - CommentsComment Challenge Catch-Up
... instructional design the right career? 06/20/07 11 Facebook as LMS? 08/16/07 11 Atmosphere for Commenting 05/17/08 11 First ... instructional design careers in June 2007. My two posts about Facebook and other social networking sites as LMS (Learning ... Facebook/social networking as LMS. When I can find that balance where I make a statement that not everyone agrees with ...
Experiencing eLearning - Monday, May 19, 2008 - CommentsReflections: Are You an iJustine or an eJustine ?
One of my favourite tech bloggers, iJustine (Justine Ezarik) posted a YouTube vid of her having a conversation with her alter-ego, “eJustine” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S1BnyY3RWc): For those of you unable (or unwilling) to view the video, the scene is of iJustine coming across eJustine, who’s busily updating her Facebook, sending e-cards, and “maintaining her social network”. iJustine uses her iPhone to hook up with some friends who are going to eat out together and then head to a concert, while eJustine declines the invite as she has to keep up with ...
Mobile Learning - Sunday, May 18, 2008 - CommentsBrain Dump
I'm on some tight deadlines between now and mid June, so blogging will be sporatic and mental processing minimal. Which is a real shame since my last few posts have gotten some fantastic comments and food for thought.Issues regarding facebook are getting an awful lot of attention. I'm wondering if it's a result of our attempts to process what this new level of social interaction really means and how it will ultimately impact us.Comments on the Facebook Adoption CurveFrom the Beginning to the End of the Curve-----------------------------------------------------------------Another ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Friday, May 16, 2008 - CommentsDoes anyone else see "Student Records" in "Data Portability"?
... including Facebook, Google Talk, hi5, orkut, Plaxo, and others)to be viewed within the predefined window. In this way ... social graph. Players in this arena (although not exactly all in the same role or capacity) include Facebook ...
e-Clippings (blogoehlert) - Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - CommentsSocial Learning Technologies and LMSs
My personal goal at Brandon Hall Research is to provide information people need to make good choices. Information like what learning technologies and tools to buy, how to implement them, best practices, how to develop a strategy, and the identification of trends in the industry. I try to accomplish that through many delivery channels (KnowledgeBases, published reports, Webinars, conferences, workshops, blogs, email, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, social networks, experiments, etc.) My newest product is about social learning technologies and LMSs. Over the years I’ve followed LMSs as ...
Janet Clarey - Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - CommentsComments on the Facebook Adoption Curve
I've been getting some amazing comments on Facebook. Too much food for thought!!!!For those (like me) who hate leaving ... Facebook that really holds no appeal. I blog and read blogs that appeal to me. I'm active in subject-focused social ... written, I don't see a lot of learning in the purely social nature of FacebookOn a certain level, I agree. Facebook has an ... always have to install yet another widget on my facebook page when people contact me (usually by zombifying, sending cards ... .---------------------------------------------------------------christytucker said... My dad, who is 58, joined Facebook not too long ago. He got a friend invite from someone whose name ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Wednesday, May 7, 2008 - CommentsComing for your job...or at least the way you do it now...
Mesh? Check out these business and career focused apps on Facebook. Or some of the great app from the Webware 100 Winners. Oh for Pete's sake, even Dilbert is doing it. So please, much as with the "Should we use games for learning?" question - can we put the "IF" we'll use Web X.0 tools for learning and really get down to creating some design principles and case studies and processes that will help? Because your job will change ...
e-Clippings (blogoehlert) - Tuesday, May 6, 2008 - CommentsFrom the Beginning to the End of the Curve
A friend who I have not talked to in over 15 years contacted me through Facebook a couple of weeks ago. MZ is easily ... our generation is about getting on facebook. I've been putting it off for years it seems like.Now - this came from the ... communication, take so long to adopt Facebook?I came up with the following list of excuses.- Facebook does not solve an ... . Facebook has been great for that).- We have other priorities. (True - MZ has a wife, kids, professional job. All ... . So why is it taking so long for us 35+ folks to adopt Facebook and other social networking technologies?
In the Middle of the Curve - Tuesday, May 6, 2008 - CommentsTraining Leadership Summit Workshop Summary
23-year-old CEO of social networking juggernaut Facebook puts it this way: "The other guys think communication is a way to get information. We think information is a way to foster better communication between people." In this type of information ecosystem the very concept of learning must be recast. Jay Cross puts it best this way: "Schooling has confused us into thinking learning was equivalent to pouring content into people's heads ...
Learning Matters! - Monday, May 5, 2008 - CommentsShould we TWITTER Face-to-Face?
... the show. Social media tools like Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc. enhance our connectivity for many reasons at many different times. If you choose NOT to participate that is okay too. 5 is not worse than 500 if the 5 connected "friends" are the friends you WANT to be connecting with. Let's try not to tie up all these new technologies with a neat little bow. They are new and that's it. We are all experimenting and trying to figure out how to use them to our advantage ...
Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development - Friday, May 2, 2008 - CommentsShareThis
I've just added the ShareThis button to my blog, to let you share any posting via email, AIM, social bookmarking and networking sites, etc. ShareThis also offer a ShareThis button for users to add to your favourite browser to let you share any website directly with your friends and contacts from AIM, email, Facebook, MySpace and more.
Jane Knight - Friday, May 2, 2008 - CommentsDaily Bookmarks 04/28/2008
UdutuLearn to turn social networking sites like Facebook into an LMS tags: lms, facebook, socialnetworking Udutu brings to the eLearning community the world’s first LMS designed to run on popular Social Networks such as Facebook. nets-implementation û home Wiki collecting examples of how the National Education Technology Standards for Students (NETS-S) are being implemented tags: technology, wiki, education, k-12, digitalliteracy The New Literacies Research Team at UConn Large collection of research and articles o ...
Experiencing eLearning - Monday, April 28, 2008 - Commentsudutu Teach & Learn
Udutu brings to the eLearning community the world's first LMS designed to run on popular Social Networks such as Facebook. The Facebook LMS makes it possible for anyone, with any size organization, to build and deploy rich media engaging online learning, manage and track learners, etc. without any up front expenses for software or hardware, or any limits on who can create courses or who can learn. The facebook applications are currently in a beta release and are free. Udutu will eventually charge for the use of the LMS at a rate of $5 per user per course. (one time fee, no ...
Jane Knight - Monday, April 28, 2008 - CommentsWork at learning, learning at work
Manish Mohan has instigated through Facebook a Blog carnival on the topic of 'work at learning, learning at work' for Monday April 21. I'm really supposed to be going for a walk on the South Downs this afternoon and the temperature has hit 17.5 degrees C, but I couldn't resist a carnival so the walk will have to be postponed for half an hour.Work and learning are of course related in all sorts of interesting ways. Most of us do not have the luxury of working in order to learn, because we are more concerned with working to earn - there is an obvious order of priorities here.
Clive on Learning - Sunday, April 20, 2008 - CommentsBanned in Boston ... or on your local network!
The Connectbeam Blog has an interesting post today, it's title: Should Facebook Be Banned from Work? Gardner's Nikos Drakos versus Ray Valdes. Given the fine reputation of the Gardner Group, I recommend you link over to Connectbeam and read up on this issue. The problem of access to web 2.0 / social networks is one facing many corporations. While there is obviously content on YouTube and Facebook which is detrimental to polite society and not work focused (or worse), many companies now use YouTube for marketing, and I actually found a great professor, Jake Blanchard, via one of his ...
TCC08: What can Educators Learn from Online Religious Communities?
Jeanette Eggert She had not used a chat room, IM, Facebook, or MySpace before joining a site called OurPrayer.org Joined a group that did live chat She’s still active in the group even after her class assignment Chat has structure People assigned as a leader and an “usher”–one person is designated to welcome newcomers through a private message and help them get started Everyone can contribute 30 minute chat, 2X a day Fellowship time before and after official time Feels a sense of community with the group–technology has connected her with others ...
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