... learning as much as I did in my Master’s program. joined online social networks, started using all the newest tools ... (LMS, LCMS, Live Online Learning, social media) Methods, processes, delivery channels for e-learning - synchronous ... ) joined social networks enrolled in a Master’s program at Capella University (Education - Instructional Design for ... ASTD’s Learning Circuits Blog has a monthly ‘Big Question.” This month it’s: I’m ... person looking to get a job in the field of e-learning vs. a person who knows little about the term. I think one ...

... iterating toward openness » Blog Archive » If Facebook Worked Like Blackboard A short post, but very pointed–if Facebook worked like an LMS, no real community would ever develop. Questions the whole idea of closed educational systems. tags: facebook, education, e-learning, lms, blackboard, openaccess shut down all the groups you belonged to, deleted all your forum posts, removed all the photos, videos, and other files you had shared, and forgot who your friends were. What if Facebook worked like Blackboard (or pretty much any other LMS)? Imagine if every fifteen weeks Facebook ...

The first week of our Free - Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals is wrapping up. This week we looked at Social Networks ... learning professionals to know at a base level around social networks and their relationship to learning:What's a social ... social networks relate to personal learning?How do social networks relate to formal learning?I think we likely did okay on ... this home. And I think it's very interesting to see a formal learning experience using a social network teaching about using a social network for formal learning. Yes, it's only one example and hopefully people thought about lots of ...

... the large number of recommendations I've received - I'm now working on a new list:  100+ social networks for learning ... more networks for workplace learning professionals) It can be available on the Ning platform, or it might be a Facebook ... My list of 100+ learning professionals to follow on Twitter has caused a bit of activity this week.  Thousands of ... point about social media - it enables people to establish connections with one another, and engage with them at all levels ... length", professional interactions with others, but for those who enjoy more personal, social connections, then it ...

Brandon Hall Research is the type of company where you own your ideas. That means when you have an idea, it’s your to implement. I seem to have settled in to all things ’social media’ after embracing social networks, blogging, microblogging, wikis, and presence technologies. As a result, I ended up not getting enough 2.0 action myself but rather working with other people to establish their own blogs, wikis, Twitter accounts, social networks, and wikis, etc ... Murphy, Innovations in Learning Recap (favorite quote: “freakin’ sweet!”) ...

I've succumbed to Twitter. After reading Jane Hart's article Understanding Today's Learner, I realized I'd better be walking the talk and trying out all the hot new "learning" tools.So Wednesday, I signed up. Within minutes, I was greeted by a number of people. That sort of freaked me out and I momentarily panicked -- how do I reply back and just how did they find me so fast? (oh, yeah, I decided to "follow them" and they got an email from Twitter).Sue Waters sent me off ... to keep in touch with my peeps: my phone, my email account (Outlook for work, gmail for life); Facebook; Google ...

... workshop, and pointer would provide a way for users to leave review. Social networking sites account for more web traffic than news and information sites. Here’s the bad news for online marketers: people don’t go to Facebook to ... for learning professionals: people go to social sites to commune with others; that’s the vehicle for most ... learning professionals putting together learning platforms. For example, the people today were really hot about live help as ... . Likewise, shouldn’t live help be a component of any important in-house learning event? For as long as I can ...

One of the questions being raised this week in the free, online course Work Literacy: Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals is how social networks impact personal learning. To me, this is a critical part of The New Skills for knowledge ... to experts in different areas. Social networks can be a good way to do this. Find groups who are interested in the ... Value from Social Media, I talked about the issue of finding information via Google / Search vs. seeking conversation ... experience - My Real-Time, Real-Life Research Project (Using LinkedIn and Ning). Here was the challenge:I am currently ...

At the beginning, after having this social learning idea in my head for awhile, I realized that what I needed to do was sell it.  So, I tried.  I told people what social learning was, how it might work and why they would like to use it. ... introduce social learning to an organization, I created a plan and took it to my boss.  He asked a few questions and said, â ... social learning to that, that he finally got it. The first two times I explained WHAT it was, HOW it worked and WHY we ... . Previously I approached explaining social learning leading with a noun instead of a verb. When we start with a verb we ...

Socialtext 3.0 came out today and geez did Twitter light up. I checked out the site and watched the 60 second video and then went to blip.tv and watched the other videos and yeah, more impressed than when I started. According to the site, Socialtext 3.0 is comprised of three parts: Socialtext People - Social networking for the enterprise Socialtext ...           and makes other enterprise applications social.     Think Twitter, Facebook, Wikis and more all rolled up in a nice, neat appliance that I can just install behind my firewall - a ...

Yesterday I created a screen cast on LinkedIn for Finding Expertise. Today, I saw a post on our Free - Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals where someone said:I am currently trying to find a SME experienced with Moodle (a CMS/LMS) and WizIQ (synchronous web class technology). I posted a query about this to several of the groups that I've joined on LinkedIn and have received about a dozen responses so far. I have yet to discover (through further research) which (if any) of the responses will be most helpful to me. This is definitely a knowledge work task where talking to someone will help.

... are PG. tags: skype Harold Jarche » Selecting Social Network Platforms Describes several smaller social network ... paperâ¬" brigade. Children donâ¬"t keep diaries any more ⬠oh yeah! Havenâ¬"t you see MySpace, facebook and blogs. Theyâ¬"re obsessed by diary keeping. Learning 2.0 Strategy : eLearning Technology 7 aspects of learning 2.0 strategy ... makes sense; web 2.0 isn’t a top-down exchange of information, so learning 2.0 shouldn’t work best with that ... , then let the organizational culture and strategy follow. tags: e-learning, learning2.0, orgculture, ...

As part of the Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals, I've created a couple of screen casts showing very quickly how I use LinkedIn to find expertise. This is my first time using Jing. Let me know what you think.FYI - the Jing object does not appear in the RSS feed.Whoops, I clicked too fast on publish - I will try to get additional screen casts posted soon. By the way, I'm still looking for a free tool that will let me do this with someone else online at the same time. In other words, record my walk-through and conversation. Prefer it produces a Flash Movie.

For those of you not subscribed to the LearnTech RSS feed or following c4lptnews on Twittter (and there's been an enormous increase in Twitter followers since my posting yesterday!), here are some recent items: 10 Tips for successfully implementing social media for learning and performance support in the workplace, Jane Hart provides some ... with everyone Ping.fm, Simple service that makes updating your social networks a snap Web Search Strategies in ... blogosphere over 5 days this week Socialbrowse, Share and discuss the web Broong, Broong is an online social ...