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TCC08: Wikis and Blogs and Tags: Oh Why?

Experiencing eLearning

Lisa Cheney-Steen, Colorado Community College System, Denver, Colorado, USA. More social community. Create a sharing community. Gave an example of faculty handbook created with wiki (using MediaWiki). Presenters: Alice Bedard-Voorhees, Colorado Mountain College, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, USA. Social Connection.

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LMS and Social Learning

Tony Karrer

If I want a great blogging platform, I’m going to download WordPress (it’s free and has a huge support community). If I want a great wiki platform, I’m going to download MediaWiki or DokuWiki (also free and they have huge support communities). Lots of stuff wrapped around the book on Amazon.

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Keeping Up - April's Big Question

eLearning Cyclops

However, being involved in an e-learning community is a big help. For me it is a blog community and following many experts on Twitter. Many of the blogs I follow are part of the eLearningLearning community. This is in reference the immense and rapidly expanding technology tools.

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Web 2.0 Applications in Learning

Tony Karrer

Of course, you can try to improve those percentages through: Incentives or requirements (students must blog - it's graded) Community cohesion Focus (short time frame, limited topic) Integrated as natural activity and other adoption models. Without anything else involved, you need a fairly large audience to get significant participation.

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10 Social Media Tools For Learning

The eLearning Coach

For example, a large organization with geographically dispersed offices can use Elgg on an internal server to introduce employees to each other and to share internal knowledge across offices; employees can use Elgg to create online study groups; and nonprofit organizations can build communities of common interest where members learn from each other.

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Web2.0 Opt-in Learning MOODLE and Video converters

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

Now, I am engaged in the MOODLE community soaking up everything I can from other's experiences via the MOODLE forum. Because I have a need and at some point I will have the same need that others in the community are having right now.its all connected. Now, I have a need. Now, MOODLE has matured. Because I'm learning!

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Social Learning and LMSs Marketplace

eLearning 24-7

When so many potential customers are seeing the advantages of open source, creating their own learning or VLE portals or seeing the value of various social media types and incorporating them into some type of social learning community, the “do nothing&# spin is well, a time warp into the past. Event management. What is missing.