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Brain Rules for Learning: Who Knew? We All Did. | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

I’m sure you have had the experience of having to remember a phone number for the minute or two it took you to find a pen and paper. Most likely not, though it might depend on how many times you repeated that number in your head the day before while looking for a pen. Brain Rule #5: Repeat to remember. What did you do?

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Organizing Content: PPT, Index Cards, Other Methods?

Experiencing eLearning

I’m very comfortable composing at the keyboard, but sometimes for creative writing like that storyline, I still want that physical sensation of a pen in my hand. If you’re reading this in email or RSS, you may need to visit my site to answer the poll.) Please take a few seconds and answer this one-question poll. (If

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Using Social Networking in Education

LearnDash

Online pen pal programs. Seeing as how many students already do this on a regular basis across other sites, it only seems logical to extend it to the classroom, doing so can have very positive benefits. While there are a variety of ways these programs can be used, some specific examples include: Having student website programs.

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The Powerful Amazon Feature You Should be Adopting in Your Learning Management System

Absorb LMS

We choose to buy from sites such as Amazon because of convenience, pricing, breadth of offerings, product reviews, and a simple and pleasant shopping experience. One of the things these sites excel at is the ability to recommend products based on our browsing or purchasing history. and a market capitalization of $153 billion.

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LearnTrends: Personal Knowledge Management

Experiencing eLearning

He forces himself to not have too many interesting things in the “holding pen&# at a time. Social bookmarking sites are less often blocked by corporate firewalls. Google Reader to pull everything in. Used to use Bloglines, accumulated lots of saved items but never looked back at them.

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Collaborative Learning in Spite of Organizational Walls – June #LCBQ

Dashe & Thomson

I’ve thought about this question off and on for about a week now, and it is time to put pen to paper, or rather hands to keyboard. These sites are application specific and, when necessary, reside outside the corporate firewall. How do we break down organizational walls when it comes to learning?

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Organizing Content: PPT, Index Cards, Other Methods?

Experiencing eLearning

I’m very comfortable composing at the keyboard, but sometimes for creative writing like that storyline, I still want that physical sensation of a pen in my hand. If you’re reading this in email or RSS, you may need to visit my site to answer the poll.) Please take a few seconds and answer this one-question poll. (If

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