Learning with e's

JANUARY 11, 2010

Two articles that have caught my eye deal with social software in education, and both have landed on my desk in the last few weeks. If you're interested in the impact blogs, wikis and social networking can have on the social and cultural dimensions of education, then take a read of them. Reference: Hughes, G.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 7, 2009

Introducing The Conversation Prism eLearning Trends 2007 and 2008 TechCrunch White Label Social Networking Platforms Chart How to Insert YouTube Videos in PowerPoint Presentations LinkedIn Tips and Tweaks: Do More with your LinkedIn Account Introduction to Wikis, Blogs, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking and RSS Corporate Policies on Web 2.0

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

The Social Web promotes collaboration Collaborative forms of learning are becoming increasingly popular methods of adult education, because they involve all students in the process of learning. One of the most popular activities on our wiki based learning programmes was called ‘goldmining’. References Wheeler, S., Yeomans, P.

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Learning with e's

JULY 16, 2009

Neil Selwyn and Lyndsay Grant are to be applauded for bringing together an excellent, very readable special issue of the journal which focuses on Learning and Social Software. Tags: social networking wiki Lyndsay Grant FaceBook Neil Selwyn. toward a more critical perspective.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 12, 2020

It relates to critical writing on wikis, but it can be applied to just about any collaborative online learning space: There is a spectrum of wiki activities that can be used to encourage critical thinking in writing. 2009) Destructive creativity on the social web. Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 24, 2012

My own students create a lot of their own content during their study, usually in the form of podcasts, videos, wiki and blog content, and are encouraged to share these publicly online to gain additional feedback. Social software is software that enables people to both read from, and write onto web spaces. Maramba, I.

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Skilful Minds

MARCH 3, 2010

Its focus was on the importance of social software applications in the Enterprise to the ability of distributed project team members to recognize who is on their team at any point in time, and who isn't. Learning Experience Social Networks Web 2.0 One of my earlier posts asked the question, Who's on Your Team? e-Learning 2.0

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 24, 2007

From the production side, a brand new analysis indicates that the business social software market will be nearly $1 billion strong this year and over $3.3 seems to involve more than just blogs and wikis. and social media. It has become clear that we're moving out of the early pioneer phase to a broader acceptance phase.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 6, 2007

David helps to paint a bit of a picture: think certification training with links to discussion forums or a Wiki or relevant files in a shared file repository. He also pointed me to a Gartner quote: Enterprise social software will be the biggest new workplace technology success story of this decade.

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Learning with e's

MAY 20, 2010

Students are using social networking sites to post up their content, including text, images and links they would like to keep and share. In more formalised education settings, there is a proliferation in the use of wikis and other collaborative shared spaces. or social software services, please consider completing this survey.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 28, 2009

It's my opening gambit in a chapter called 'Destructive Creativity on the Social Web' in which I discuss the volatile and contentious nature of wiki content generation. I argue that wiki content generation is both creative and destructive, and you need both to ensure quality.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 7, 2010

John Ambrose in Social Learning Will Fill Enterprise 2.0’s I agree with John that rolling out an empty Wiki or other enterprise 2.0 But I have trouble with two aspects of the InGenius solution: It ties social interaction to books (and eventually other learning resources). tools when they are first rolled out.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 16, 2009

eLearning Technology , June 3, 2009 Student Guide: Introduction to ‘Wikis’ in Blackboard - Don't Waste Your Time , June 12, 2009 Discovering Instructional Design 11: The Kemp Model - The E-Learning Curve , June 10, 2009 I Say Instructional Designer, You Say Tomah-toe - Learning Visions , June 9, 2009 Attribution in a Web 2.0

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Tony Karrer

JULY 21, 2010

. - Business Casual , October 29, 2008 Making Intranet Discussion Groups Effective - eLearning Technology , June 15, 2006 Requirement to Social Learning Adoption #2 - Compatibility - Engaged Learning , February 24, 2009 The Holy Trinity: Leadership Framework, Learning 2.0 &

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Learning with e's

JUNE 11, 2020

I wrote back in 2009 about how I had used the model to frame my own efforts to engage online learners, in wikis - collaborative web pages. Here's how I created engaging activities: The first simple activity has been used both as a warm-ip activity for new groups and as a means of familiarising students with the topography of the wiki space.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 26, 2009

Wiki Blog Space Mashups: Combining Web 2.0 tools to create collaborative and reflective learning spaces Recently teachers have used wikis, blogs and other open architecture Web tools to encourage student interaction (Richardson, 2006). Less is known about how wikis, blogs and other Web 2.0 Here it is, awaiting your comments.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The event will once again be held in the spectacular Roland Levinsky Building, on the University of Plymouth main campus. At the 2009 event over 200 delegates from 17 countries participated over the two days, which saw 2 keynotes, and more than 80 demonstrations, papers, and workshops.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Wiki + SCORM + Add-ins will become more common for easy authoring. Not sure that the emergence of Wiki Course Authoring really translated into adoption. Luckily a few will also add in more community and wiki capabilities. Mzinga is going a different direction focusing on collaboration and social media capabilities.

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Mindflash

JUNE 20, 2012

collaboration, by definition, implies a technology solution, However, there are many ways in which learning professionals can increase collaboration in organizations, from implementing enterprise social software or things as simple as wheeling a white board into the break room. Enterprise 2.0 So, although the term enterprise 2.0

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Learning with e's

JUNE 14, 2008

applications such as wikis. The second paper in the session was also focused on the use of wikis to support the learning of English as a foreign language. Igor Balaban (University of Zagreb, Croatia) borrowed Gilly Salmon’s ‘e-tivities’ concept to characterise student engagement with wiki tools. e-portfolios!). EDEN elearning.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Several social network suite vendors have offered us incredibly deep discounts if we make up our minds in the next two days. I need you to give me a one-page wish list of the capabilities you require from social software to make the most of social learning and carry out your vision of what we need to do.”

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

I agree - I use wikis as a central portal to link to other tools and resources, but it might just as well be a VLE (albeit an expensive option). I agree they keep everything in one place, but aggregators can do that and so can wikis - for significantly less cost. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 14, 2008

I talk about mentoring, personalised learning, nomadic learning, and how blogs and wikis can be used in teacher education, and I explore the idea behind using social software to support professional learning. Tags: 5 Stage Wiki Activities Model blog nomadic learning mentoring self learning podcast.

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Mindflash

JANUARY 24, 2011

implementations generally use a combination of social software and collaborative technologies like blogs, RSS, social bookmarking, social networking and wikis. Enterprise 2.0 : Enterprise 2.0 is the strategic integration of Web 2.0 technologies into an enterprise’s intranet, extranet and business processes.

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Learning with e's

JULY 9, 2007

I spoke about 'Social Software in Higher Education' and several really useful questions were raised by the group over copyright, validity and reliability of sources such as Wikipedia , plagiarism and 'fit for purpose' issues. Tags: wikipedia wiki plagiarism wikiphobia. Landed on my desk I find the latest issue (No.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 22, 2007

Deborah Everhart (Georgetown University, USA) followed, with a session on social bookmarking, using Blackboard MLE tools. Tags: podcasting blog wiki mobile technology Web 2.0 The session was packed with over 150 people in a room designed for 120. Next year's EDEN will be held between 11-14 June, in Lisbon, Portugal.

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Learning with e's

JULY 13, 2007

social software in the classroom. We all came away with several new ideas about how to use wikis, blogs and a host of other tools to enhance and extend the learning experience. Tags: Rob Koper blogs wikis ICICTE. He got us running round the room doing many exercises and discussion around the idea of using Web 2.0

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Mark Oehlert

MARCH 26, 2008

" March 26, 2008 in Application Becomes the Platform | Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference "Using Open Source Social Software as Digital Library Interface" (D-Lib Magazine) : Comments The comments to this entry are closed.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 31, 2007

Social Software 25 VLEs 24 Blogs 20 Mobile learning 19 Social networking 18 Wikis 16 No surprises really. It interested me to see that some key topics have emerged as the front runners for discussion. A quick trawl of titles and keywords revealed these top 7 favourite topics: e-Learning 31 Web 2.0

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Learning with e's

MARCH 19, 2010

Keywords: Social Web; Web 2.0; social software: An enabling suite of sociable technologies in health and healthcare education. Kamel Boulos M N, Maramba, I and Wheeler S (2006) Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education. 24 (4), 233-245.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Indeed, my top three all-time cited academic publications are: Wikis, blogs and podcasts : A new generation of web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education (2006) The emerging Web 2.0

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Big Dog, Little Dog

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

Debunking three lies about social software - Using Wiki in Education. Three lies about social software is a great piece in which JP Rangaswami examines three lies about social software that need to be debunked. Wikis Are Alive and Kicking in the Enterprise - eWeek. That time is all but over.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

I'm going to be speaking in the main conference about some of the research we have been doing in Plymouth on wikis in teacher education. Just about anything a VLE can do, social software can do better, with the possible exceptions of surveillance and control (and even those are debatable).

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Jay Cross

JULY 3, 2008

Previously hard-to-find articles on my wiki have morphed into leave-behind reference material, for example, Learning in Business or Seminal Documents. Two years ago, the focus was on how to apply social software for learning. The focus of my workshops is shifting, too. This is a tough exercise.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 3, 2008

Pictured are Graham and I, with me in full flow talking about some research I have done on blogs and wikis for nomadic learners (Picture taken by David Roethler and uploaded direct to Flickr via Shozu). The weather is a little cooler today, but the discussion is just as hot, centred upon self organised learning and social software.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Our two keynotes speakers are well known in the field of ICT and e-learning. Academic and author Mike Blamires (Canterbury Christ Church University) will open the conference on Day 1, which will focus mainly on compulsory education.

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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

MARCH 22, 2007

Instead of forcing people into predetermined groups like groupware does, social software facilitates the natural formation of groups based on spontaneous, contextual needs for interaction. Esko nails the power of wikis in the article and it is a great read. The system is developed bottom-up instead of top-down.

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