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eLearning 2.0 Technologies and Concepts: Start Pages as Environments for Self-Organized Learners

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eLearning 2.0 eLearning, Learning Design, eLearning Standards, Knowledge Management, Active Learning, Blended Learning, Web 2.0, Microcontent, Social Software. I offered a model of an environment with six channels for: authoring, syndicating information, communication, collaboration and networking, researching, and evaluation. The prototypes of such environment are built in the Start pages Netvibes and Pageflakes. Labels: start page eLearning 2.0

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Recently I was asked to write an article for the European Council of International Schools Shortcuts Newsletter about using web 2.0 The 21st Century Educator: Embracing Web 2.0 being the school’s only teacher of a certain class or grade level, having limited professional development opportunities compared to your home country, and being without a support network for feedback and inspiration. However, all of that changed when I started to embrace web 2.0

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6 Ways to Filter Your RSS Feeds - ReadWriteWeb

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RWW Network. Web Apps. RSS is easily one of the best things to happen to web publishing in the past 10 years. It allows users to easily keep track of news from multiple web sites because updates are delivered directly to them. Information overload is a real problem for many web users, and one way to cope with it is to filter your RSS feeds so you only see what you want to see. Whats Next on the Web: a ReadWriteWeb Toolkit for 2008. social networking.

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

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Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Opinion , Social Media > How FriendFeed Can Teach You About Your Friends How FriendFeed Can Teach You About Your Friends by Tamar Weinberg on April 10, 2008 Share FriendFeed has been out for just a few months and has already established itself as a solid startup with an indefinite amount of potential. Or you could be busy at work and avoiding social media altogether.

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eLearning & Deliberative Moments: The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE)

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Contents Introduction Towards a Definition Driving Forces Developments to Date Barriers Future Potential References Web Links Introduction A definition for the term Personal Learning Environment ( PLE ), remains elusive. This article has been compiled after tracking recent conversations in the blogosphere and following social bookmarks. These could be the university VLE, the workplace LMS or a collection of so-called Web 2.0 There are benefits to both web-served (ie.

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Ple - LTCWiki

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blogs, wikis, podcasts, social bookmarking and others â?? Instead of centralized, instructor-controlled learning, PLEs are distributed, social and learner-centric. The differing viewpoints of PLEs are reflective of infancy of the concept, and the practical applications of the read/write web itself. Learning is deeply personal, AND social.". PLEs enable individual learners to build their own learning network. PLEs can exist partly on a desktop and the web.

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How to Really Build Backlinks and Dominate Google

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A few years ago you could take a robotic approach to SEO, but the web is now far too social to rely on old tactics to help your website rank higher. For a lot of competitive keyphrases online you’ll also find popular blogs, forums and niche social networks ranking highly. As an example, a site ranking 2nd for me right now is a page on Wilson Web. Congrats Reply Lenen says: March 2, 2010 at 9:23 pm Yes, don’t underestimate the power of social media.