I’ve just finished a webinar for the UK-based Learning & Skills Group. The script for my presentation together with images of the slides I used can be found here: 10 steps for working smarter with social media
I’ve just finished a webinar for the UK-based Learning & Skills Group. The script for my presentation together with images of the slides I used can be found here: 10 steps for working smarter with social media
I receive lots of emails from individuals as well as companies who have set up new e- or social learning businesses or produced new (or updated versions of) products/tools for education or workplace learning. Unfortunately, I am not always able to review them all individually, but today I thought I would briefly mention five different resources that I’ve recently been emailed about:
Another resource from the hand of Dan Weaver, Dewey Digger
"Explore knowledge via the Dewey Decimal Classification; just clickety-click".
Yesterday I gave a short webinar to the Learning & Skills Group. Don Taylor, Chairman, asked me to talk about how you choose a social and collaboration platform, as he thought this would be a topical discussion in the light of some people's concerns with the changes at Ning.
So this webinar looked at 10 criteria for considering such a platform (and used Ning as my benchmark), then I gave a tour of 3 very different platforms, and finally compared them against the 10 criteria I had listed up front.
The first question that was asked after the presentation was how it all fits together with other systems in the organisation, and in particular the LMS, but it also seemed clear to me that many participants were still focusing entirely on creating and managing e-courses , rather than thinking about how they could support learning in all forms that take place in the organisation.
So since this is very much my view and the angle from which I approached this presentation, if you haven't already read my article, State of Learning in the Workplace Today, I would recommend you do so before viewing the presentation, since it summarises how I, and many others, believe that workplace learning is evolving.
The presentation appears below, and sites mentioned in the presentation as well as other supporting resources appear on the manin C4LPT site on this page. I am also about to create a short whitepaper on this topic that incorporates the slides and my notes, so let me know if you'd like a copy, when it is ready.
Today I am posting about three completely different resources that readers have emailed me about:
E-Learning Technology Network
Omer Oz told me about the E-Learning Technology Network that he has created for e-learning professionals from around the world.
TeacherZone
Andrew Joseph emailed me about TeacherZone; this is a free resource for teachers, and has thousands of free math video lessons for Grades 3-10.
Sortfix
Arya Schellemberg wrote to tell me about SortFix, and explained that this is a " new search engine that combines a very friendly and easy-to-use interface with powerful algorithms that help improve the search and lead you to accurate and relevant results. Also, it gives you the possibility of retrieving results from Google, Bing, Youtube, Twitter and Image Search all in the same place".
Have you got going with Google Buzz yet?
If not, here are some ideas to get started
If yes, here are some other bits and pieces I've come across
Here is this month's round up of tools and articles added to my website:
Tools added to the Learning Tools Directory in February 2010
My Top 3 favourite tools this month
Articles/postings added to Reading Lists in February 2010
Here's a text cloud that shows what the key trends this month were - if you couldn't have guessed!If you want to keep up with news as it happens, here's how
[Image: Desktop wallpaper calendar, February 2010 by Eli Burford, via Smashing Magazine]
UPDATE: Wordle is currently offline, so I have removed the link to the text cloud image
In my previous posting about how I was using Twitter, Facebook and Buzz, I mentioned that I initially synchonised postings across the 3 different networks - to see how that worked for me.
I've had a few enquiries asking me how I was doing that, so I thought I would point you to the relevant pages of my Guide to 140 Learning where I list the tools I have found to do this:
I have been spending quite a lot of time recently on Twitter and Facebook and Google Buzz (oh, my!) as I work on my resource: 140 Learning: A Guide to Using Twitter, Facebook and Google Buzz for Social Learning, which is coming along quite nicely.
However, this has also allowed me to reflect on my own personal and professional use of these 3 social networks. Originally I tried to synch postings across these 3 sites, so that they were pretty much the same, but I am now finding I am using each of them quite differently (although there is still some overlap) - more about that in another posting - and hence am reorganising my online activities because of this.
So in this posting, I just wanted to mention that as part of my reorganisation, I have now set up a C4LPT Facebook Fan page, where my professional activities on Facebook will be focused. (Note I will still be actively maintaining my Twitter account as well as my Google Buzz feed!).
This Facebook Fan page is still in its infancy, but I am hoping that "fans" can help me extend it into more of a learning community space, so if you are on Facebook, come and join us!
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