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Getting the Most out of your Social Learning Program

Gyrus

Are there already social components in your current learning mix that you are using? Such as comments fields, Twitter interactions, or in-platform social profiles). Focus on ways to maximize user interaction with the learning environment. You shouldn’t be the only person contributing to your learning environment.

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What Makes Social Learning so Interesting?

Gyrus

Instead of sitting around a campfire and playing “6 degrees from Kevin Bacon”, I could proactively comment on one of his Twitter posts and get a reaction directly from the star himself. In modern times, there is not a day that goes by in which I forego attempting to learn from my peers.

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Newsmastering for Professional Development 2.0 Dashboard: Online Community Management Aggregator and Report

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is a mashup of RSS feeds on one page that includes: The ten best or "must read" blog posts from selected blogs. The filtering of these posts is handled automatically is based on the number of comments, inbound links, and other signs of engagement. (Hmm. sounds like a mashup of RSS run through Postrank).

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Educating Medical Personnel: New Book Reviews CPD Topics

Forj

Throughout the collection, we were pleased to see the emphasis on using the internet to create blended learning environments. Titled “Learning to Lead in an Academic Health System,” the chapter provides an overview of the need for more emphasis on leadership training and finding leaders who have the right skills to lead.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The MacArthur Foundation announced that it will be funding a five-year $50 million initiative, mostly for research, to try to understand how young people are using digital media and its impact learning. The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. It isn't entertainment.

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Intermediated Conferences and Backchannels

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Since the workshop is essentiallly about designing more interactive face-to-face learning environments, I don't want to model a 85 minute lecture with 100 slide powerpoint, leaving 5 minutes for q&A at end. He shows a video clip of Mena Trott's Keynote calling for more civility in blog commenting.

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New Screencast: Web Analytics Demystified: A Primer for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For all my blog readers and participants on the NTEN Nonprofit Webmasters Affinity group who left comments, made suggestions, pointed me to resources, and shared screen captures of their stats. And yes, learning is time consuming and you can't really master a topic like this in 90 minutes let alone create a media piece.