How to Use Twitter to Build Intelligence. Intelligence: n. the capacity to acquire and apply knowledge (this post is a group Twitter experiment – link to similar articles at bottom & share your own experience on Twitter with hashtag #MonTwit) I’ve been thinking a lot about how we can leverage the potential of social networks in order to learn, facilitate innovation and solve problems. I’ve been experimenting with Twitter heavily for the past few months, and would like to share a few basic insights into what I’m discovering. I started to tackle this a few weeks ago via a comment I posted on @briansolis‘s blog, so I’ll just expand on the main questions I laid out there: What is Twitter? How do you use it strategically?
Let me just start by saying I understand that Twitter is a communication channel that can be used in a variety of ways. 1. Getting started on Twitter is like walking into a crowded room blindfolded: you know there’s somebody out there, but you’re not quite sure who they are, where they are, or why you should care. 2. 1. Why Web 3.0? Social media news and business strategies blog | Socialmedia.biz. 100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner | College@Home. For those unfamiliar with the term, a learning style is a way in which an individual approaches learning. Many people understand material much better when it is presented in one format, for example a lab experiment, than when it is presented in another, like an audio presentation. Determining how you best learn and using materials that cater to this style can be a great way to make school and the entire process of acquiring new information easier and much more intuitive.
Here are some great tools that you can use to <a href=">cater to your individual learning style, no matter what that is. Visual Learners Visual learners learn through seeing and retain more information when it's presented in the form of pictures, diagrams, visual presentations, textbooks, handouts and videos. Auditory Learners Auditory learners do best in classes where listening is a main concern. Kinesthetic Learners Kinesthetic learners do best when they interact and touch things. E-learning and Web 2.0 tools for schools. From formal courses to social learning. Following my last post on "Getting started with social software for learning", I've had a number of conversations about how social learning fits into a more formalised training environment.
Clive Shepherd's recent post on "Elearning in all its forms" gives an overview of the three main facets of elearning and how they can each be used across the spectrum of informal to formal learning. I've repackaged Clive's ideas into a table which tries to show the full spectrum: The social learning tools, whether they are synchronous (at the same time) or asynchronous (at different times), are all about the interactions and communication between people. These are an essential component of any learning ecosystem. Terry Anderson (Professor in Distance Education - Athabasca University), describes the main interactions that take place within any learning context as: Student <-> TeacherStudent <-> StudentStudent <-> Content Accept that social learning will happen.
Would that work in your organisation? 100 Little Ways You Can Dramatically Improve Your Writing | Onli. Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day: 140 University - Extend your. 13 technologies I can't live without - Dangerously Irrelevant. We all have technologies that are absolutely essential to our day-to-day lives. Here is a baker’s dozen of mine… Google Reader. It took me a while, but I’ve now organized all of my feeds into category folders in Google Reader. I now can simply click on a folder name, scan the post titles for anything that grabs me (I keep Google Reader in List view, not Expanded view), star anything that I want to read and/or blog later, and then click on Mark All as Read to clear the list. I use every one of these technologies nearly every day.
Related posts. News: Hybrid Education 2.0. What if you could teach a college course without a classroom or a professor, and lose nothing? According to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, there’s no "what if" about it. Earlier in the decade, Carnegie Mellon set out to design software for independent learners taking courses through the university’s Open Learning Initiative, an effort to make courses freely available to non-enrolled learners.
But rather than merely making course materials available to non-students, like MIT's famous OpenCourseware project, Carnegie Mellon wanted to design courses that would respond to the individual needs of each student. It currently has courses in 12 different subjects available on its Web site, mostly in math and science. Carnegie Mellon is not about to replace all its professors with computer programs. “At the most selective tier of colleges and universities, they have some significant interest in the existing model of residential education,” says Roger C. ‘Reinventing Higher Education’ HOW TO: Add Captions To Your YouTube Videos. YouTube has a global audience, so if you want to reach as many people as possible, you'll have to make sure subtitles are available for your videos. You'll want closed captioning to reach the deaf and hard of hearing, too.
Thankfully, that process has shifted from relatively easy to an absolute breeze in recent months. Here's how to make it happen. Once you've uploaded a video to your YouTube account, you have two options for generating subtitles for the video: You can use the CaptionTube web app that Google has created, or you can upload a transcript you make yourself and use Google's speech recognition technology to automatically assign the right times to each caption. In either case, you'll end up with a text file that you can edit to make corrections if need be, and viewers will be able to either read the captions in their native language or translate them on the fly when watching your video. CaptionTube Captions By Voice Recognition. Directory of the Best Teacher Resources.
CODE: Evaluating Educational Technology. Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009. Social Networking: Bridging Formal and Informal Learning by Clar. "The recognition that learning is 80% informal suggests that we need to support natural connections between people who can help one another. And we can distribute that support between employees, partners, or customers. You can see real benefits, but you’ve got to have a way to think about them! " There’s been much justifiable excitement about social media recently; are you on top of it? The recognition that learning is 80% informal suggests that we need to support natural connections between people who can help one another. There are lots of social networking tools with weird-sounding names: blogs, wikis, Twitter (also known as micro-blogs), Ning, Facebook, and more.
Things are not getting slower: we are seeing decreasing time to market for products and services, more information coming in, and fewer resources with which to cope. What we need, going forward, is the ability to take a continuous read on the environment and to adapt quickly. Informal learning payoffs in real life Issues. Institute for the Future of the Book. Legroj: Mapas Conceptuales, Ejemplos y algunas Herramientas Grat. Elearning! Magazine - December/January 2010. Welcome to Aviary.