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Blogging in a Walled Garden

Experiencing eLearning

So how do you use a blog effectively when it’s housed within a walled garden? Blog Conversations. One of our great facilitators suggested that it might be better to emphasize the conversations more, as we do in another class that uses Edublogs. This makes the default view more like an aggregator than a typical blog.

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Social Learning Ought to be Story-Sharing: "Friends You Haven't Met Yet"

Vignettes Learning

Friends You Haven't Met Yet" A recent experience during a visit to USC Center for Creative Technologies helped me tie a bow on this issue. We spoke about ICT's Story Web Blog Project. Army, they compiled 33 million web blogs that use personal stories. Then, conversation ensues. Meaningful conversations.

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Evolution of L&D - Some more thoughts

ID Reflections

Here are some things I could think of and looking to the L&D CoP to learn more… : Connect with business : Keep an ongoing and open conversation with business using the language of business. Here are some possible conversation starters. What makes business think it’s a skill-gap issue? Could there be a motivation issue?