Learning with e's

MAY 29, 2013

If you are immersed in technology mediated communication, there are no apparent barriers to membership of your community of practice. It is your virtual community. It is tribal because the global online community exhibits many of the characteristics of traditional, territorial tribal practice.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The image above is the evidence of our random scribblings and more considered workings, showing some of the links we think are important. Will the use of social media increase as a result? Will we see a greater emphasis on communities of practice as a result of mobile tools and technologies? We think it will.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Jonathan Rose has some interesting things to say about how social networking helps his off-line (for this read 'real life') world. In his blogpost What's so social about social media? he outlines three functions: supplementing, sifting and sustaining, all of which have a social dimension. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Does the author have his own version of Creative Commons?" In so doing I hope the community of practice I value, the readers of this blog, and those who are as passionate as me about learning and technology can read, be aware, assess and otherwise discuss the implications of it. For me, it's a form of cyber bullying.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 9, 2011

The biggest surprise for me so far has been social media: it is the biggest thing in the last ten years to hit the world of learning technology. You can literally tap into any community of practice that you are interested in and find people who are very clever and knowledgeable and get almost instant answers from them.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We encourage them to develop their own Personal/Professional Learning Networks (PLNs) so they can lock into and exploit the vast communities of practice that already exist out there in the rapidly expanding Blogosphere and Twitterverse. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Answer - they were scanning for mentions of KLM on Twitter and other social media. It simply involves a KLM staff member regularly scanning the popular social media channels to intervene if there is any bad publicity or complaint, before it blows up into something unmanageable. But how did KLM know to respond to my tweet?

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Learning with e's

APRIL 27, 2011

For me, and for an increasing number of fellow academics, publishing in traditional journals is becoming increasingly anacronistic in the digital age of social media communication. Image source by Hakan Dahlstrom.before the ink is dry by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 10, 2009

It has an awesome array of choices, and is responsive to the needs of communities of practice as well as the individual. The personal web by contrast, moves along lightly at the pace of its users, being directed as changes and personal needs dictate. UK: England & Wales License.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Situated learning (learning within context in a community of practice) grows thanks to augmented mobile reality. It's early for this technology, but I'm paying close attention to solutions that will enable video to be delivered much more like images. social scorecard and social media karma.

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