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RIP Google Reader: Don’t Scream Who Moved My Cheese, Pivot Your Reading

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I’ve been using Feedly since 2008, when Kevin Gamble from the Extension community mentioned it during an online workshop that I facilitated. Geoff Livingston had a great suggestion of using the Google Reader closing for a moment of self-reflection and to pivot and purge what you’re reading. ” moment.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

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The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. She recently took a deep dive into reflective practice and techniques. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Alaska: And The Earth Shook Under My Feet

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Ironically, it was during a session facilitated by Phil Klein called “Tackling the Unexpected&# who shared insights about he took back his life after surviving a cancer diagnosis. Finished the day with a delicious grilled Alaskan Salmon, after checking my Seafood Watch iphone app to be sure that it was a sustainable fish to eat!

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

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I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. Here's some reflections on the Webinar: Overcoming the Strawberry Jam Problem With Social Design. I like webinar software that facilitates learning between participants).

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Tag Poetry: Playing With A Concept

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When I got back from on-site work (reflections on that follow) and finished my mommy shift, I discovered that Nancy wrote a poem with her tags. Like your Flickr photos or your delicious bookmarks. Checked into their new delicious account and they are adding more links. I wondered outloud in a comment.

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Show Me Experiments and Realistic Outcomes for Tagging/RSS

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That aside, Joistke goes on to reflect on the usefulness of tagging and rss feeds for her work with communities of practices (and by extension - nonprofit organizations.) She describes the value in terms of avoiding information overload for busy professionals.

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J. Leroy says "OMG Blogging is so not Web 2.0"

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I bookmarked in delicious a post by David Weinberger saying blogging is Web 1.0 " I never expected that anyone would take the time to reflect on that question, let alone lead me towards understanding. for lack of a better word) can facilitate for nonprofits. with a rhetorical question, "Do you agree with his point ?"

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