Free-ebook. Socialmedia-course. The Agile Elearning Design Manual - Why Synchronous Learning makes so much sense today. At the very outset, let me apologise for being late on this post. My dog went through surgery this weekend, my wife's had exams and life's been incredibly hectic as a consequence. As I wrote earlier, if you're a service provider, then people matter most in your business. I've worked forever in the services industry and as an in-house consultant, I've realised that people like working with other people. Much as we may deny it, the experience of interacting with each other in a collaborative environment is special. That's the reason social media has taken off in this age.
That said, its not enough as an in-house trainer to set up a couple of elearning modules, forums, wikis, chat rooms, etc and believe that everyone will participate. On the other hand, its unrealistic to assume that people will individually arrive at an unknown course page, take the course, participate in discussion, contribute to a wiki, rant in a chat room etc. Part of making learners pull learning is evangelism. 15 Free eBooks about Social Media. Www46.homepage.villanova.edu/john.immerwahr/TP101/Facebook.pdf. Social Media in Education: The Power of Facebook. As a teacher and a new mom, it didn't take long for me to find Facebook as a supplement for my stunted social life. And as any FB user knows, once you join, you become inundated with photos of new babies, comments about friends' recent bodily functions, quiz results, and mysterious requests for farm equipment or mafia weapons. But beyond the posts I saw that made me laugh, cry, and wince, I soon learned that Facebook was also a place of professional learning and development.
I began sharing with other teachers and educators what were working, what news I'd read, what blog post I'd written, my indignations, and my victories. Soon my small pool of professional friends bled into my small pool of personal ones. And so I also discovered that Facebook was more than just a means to learn about friends professionally and colleagues personally: It became a way to publicize the issues each of us felt deserved advocacy. Potent Proof Example One: Buffelgrass shall perish Advocacy in Action. Social Media in Education. Social Media for Education. Podcasting for Education | D'Arcy Norman dot net. I just wanted to capture some possible compelling uses for podcasting in an educational setting.
Lectures. Imagine students being able to subscribe to an RSS feed, and have recordings of every lecture automatically stored on their hard drive or iPod or whatnot for review. This would remove the need for the dozens of recorders at the front of a large lecture hall, all getting crappy and redundant audio. Why not produce a single quality feed, and let everyone use it? (on a related note – why not share a single high quality set of notes, rather than making lectures a speed-writing test…)Interviews with external resources – an instructor could interview a scientist, or someone practicing whatever the subject is, and add that recording to the RSS feed for the class – making it available to all students. And Steve Sloan offers up these ideas: