How to Navigate Social Media (and Avoid Information Overload) There’s a lot of conversation about social media. And for good reason. The tools let you connect with peers who share common interests. Articulate’s Facebook page keeps you up-to-date on news and information. As you can see from the example above, if you use Articulate products there’s an entire network of people and an active community for you to be part of. Not only is social media good for you, it’s good for your learners. The challenge with these tools is that it can be hard for people to manage all of the information. The Value of Community When I was younger, I took great pride in not listening to mainstream music. I discovered the bands through a magazine that had a reader section titled, Desert Island Discs. And that’s the value of community. Click here to watch Social Networking in Plain English. Even if you build traditional elearning courses, social media has value. It’s easy enough to integrate social media with your rapid elearning courses. Filtering the Noise
World Wide Web Have you ever wondered, when you visit a website, where those words and images come from? These days, as long as we have an Internet connection, using the Web is pretty easy. We can visit billions of pages on things from pet alligators to the weather in Holland. To help figure out how it works, let’s pretend we can get really small, follow the wires and explore what makes the Web work. In order to get to the Web, we need a connection from our home or business to the rest of the online world. This usually happens through the phone or cable lines, or even satellite. If we could see the connection, the information coming through it would look like little packets of code. For this, we use a web browser. It’s called a “server.” We do this with web addresses. The reason we call it a “web” is that all the servers are connected. Web pages use shortcuts or “links” – words and images we can click, that direct us to page after page. Together, this system makes up the World Wide Web.
curation definition Web Search Strategies The Web may seem like a vast ocean when it comes to finding something you need. Thankfully, search engines can help turn oceans of information into small pools that make finding information easier. Before we dive in, let’s talk a bit about how search works on the Web. Search engines go out and try to account for every word on every webpage. All this information is then organized for easy reference. When you search for a word, the search engine finds all the pages where the word appears, and displays them in the search results. The problem is that there are often too many results. Say you’re looking for a specific kind of fish, and these represent all the websites on the Web. Try to imagine the exact fish and describe it in the search box. But to be a smart searcher, you should know some basic shortcuts. Here’s another shortcut.
De l'environnement personnel d'apprentissage à la communauté de pratique Recommander cette page à un(e) ami(e) Il n'est pas besoin d'insister sur le fait que l'on apprend beaucoup en consultant Internet, de multiples façons : en explorant des sources spécialisées, en s'information sur les sites généralistes, en suivant des pairs ou des organismes liés à notre univers professionnel sur les réseaux sociaux, en s'abonnant aux fils RSS des sites de référence, etc. Conjuguées à nos sources d'information et de savoirs physiques, ces sources et applications numériques composent notre Environnement personnel d'apprentissage (EPA - Personal Learning Environment en anglais). Si cet environnement apparaît comme confus et bouillonnant au premier abord, avec un peu de pratique on parvient à l'organiser et surtout à distinguer la fonction attribuée à chaque élément. Des fonctions multiples dans l'environnement d'apprentissage Joyce Seitzinger, qui travaille à l'université Deakin (Australie) a représenté graphiquement la structuration de son EPA : B.
Blogs You've seen the word, you've seen the web sites and you may even have one. But have you ever wondered: What's the big deal about blogs? To make sense of blogs, you have to think about the news and who makes it. We'll look at news in the 20th vs. the 21st century to make our point. In the 20th century, the news was produced professionally. The 21st century marked the point where news became both professional and personal. As blogs became popular, they created millions of news sources and gave everyone an audience for their own version of news. With a blog...A business owner can share news about his business A mother can share news about her family Or a sport star can share news with fans These people are all "bloggers". How did this happen? Blogs are websites that are organized by blog posts - these are individual news stories, like articles in the paper. Also, Each blog post can become a discussion through comments left by readers. Speaking of relationships, bloggers often work together.
Construire son réseau personnel d'apprentissage Les enseignants sont des apprenants professionnels. Parce qu'ils savent et aiment apprendre, ils ont choisi d'enseigner et se sont formés à cela. Se forment-ils toujours, tout au long de leur vie ? Le réseau personnel d'apprentissage, de quoi nourrir une curiosité et un appétit de savoirs sans bornes Pourquoi donner la traduction anglaise de l'expression ? Ce n'est pas ce que pense Tom Whitby qui, en décembre 2010, déplorait de se sentir isolé parmi ses collègues, à cause précisément de son implication dans un PLN. Pourtant, les bénéfices de l'implication dans un PLN sont énormes : on y trouve des personnes dont on partage les centres d'intérêt, qui peuvent répondre à nos questions. Ceux qui ont adopté cette modalité de formation en connaissent les avantages. Comment créer son réseau ? Mais comment commencer ? Après avoir lu quelques listes de conseils et d'outils recommandés, nous en avons choisie une, pas plus mauvaise que les autres, et qui a le mérite d'être simple. Sésamath
Police embracing tech that predicts crimes New technology allows police to predict crime before it happens, but some agencies can't afford the software. Predictive analytic software PredPol anticipates future crime based upon past activity. The program was adapted from similar software meant to predict earthquake aftershocks.Many police stations still use obsolete technology due to small budgets and aversion to change.Even so, police depend heavily upon social media to solve crimes. (CNN) -- For something that predicts the future, the software is deceptively simple looking. A map of a city is marked up with small red squares, each indicating a 500-by-500-foot zone where crimes are likely to take place next. The program is called PredPol, and it calculates its forecasts based on times and locations of previous crimes, combined with sociological information about criminal behavior and patterns. PredPol's system features a map of a city marked with red squares to show zones where crimes are likely to occur.
Use your PLN to help your PLC to become a CoP Learning can happen anywhere at anytime from anyone and anything. Your connections and any information you use are learning experiences that can help you grow personally and professionally. I wrote this article for CUE in 2009 and felt it was appropriate to update it for the ISTE 2011 Conference in 2011. I’ll be there — very busy but learning so much from the people in my PLN. Personal Learning Network (PLN) There is nothing new about PLNs. Now my PLN connects me to others and to information in ways I never thought possible a few years ago. Use a mindmapping program such as Inspiration or Mindmeister to diagram your own PLN. So how can your PLN help you build your Professional Learning Community (PLC)? Your PLN can help you meet your personal and/or professional learning goals. What do we want each student to learn? We know a teacher can make a difference to the children in their classroom. The PLC becomes a Community of Practice (CoP)
Google reports 'alarming' rise in government censorship requests Google says government requests to remove Web content are way upIn last half of 2011, U.S. agencies asked Google to remove 6,192 pieces of content That's up 718% compared with the previous six-month periodGoogle released its biannual transparency report Sunday night (CNN) -- Western governments, including the United States, appear to be stepping up efforts to censor Internet search results and YouTube videos, according to a "transparency report" released by Google. "It's alarming not only because free expression is at risk, but because some of these requests come from countries you might not suspect -- Western democracies not typically associated with censorship," Dorothy Chou, a senior policy analyst at Google, wrote in a blog post on Sunday night. "For example, in the second half of last year, Spanish regulators asked us to remove 270 search results that linked to blogs and articles in newspapers referencing individuals and public figures, including mayors and public prosecutors.
Une définition des médias sociaux Voilà plus d’un an que ce blog est ouvert et je viens de me rendre compte que je n’ai jamais réellement pris le temps de fournir une définition des médias sociaux (contrairement à Cédric). Il existe déjà de nombreuses définitions mais je ne m’y retrouve pas tout à fait. Commençons par les définitions en anglais : Wikipedia – « Social media is online content created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies. At its most basic sense, social media is a shift in how people discover, read and share news, information and content » ; Technology in translation – « Social media describes a new set of internet tools that enable shared community experiences, both online and in person » ; Duct Tape Marketing – « Social media is the use of technology combined with social interaction to create or co-create value » ; Social Computing Magazine – « Social media tools make it easier to create and distribute content and discuss the things we care about » ;?
Blogue vous dites ? [sommaire]Le texte ci-dessous est une version en évolution de cette page wiki qui présente les blogues en apprentissages. Introduction Le présent document a pour but principal de présenter les blogues en tant qu'outil pédagogique. Nous survolerons également des sujets comme comment on se crée un blogue ou encore quels sont les précautions à prendre pour que l'aventure bloguale soit la plus positive possible. Ce qu'est un blogue Définition de Wikipedia: S'appellent blogue sur Internet à la fois des journaux intimes anonymes, des œuvres de dessinateurs, le carnet de bord de photographes, des carnets de voyage, des satires, des romans en construction ou encore des sites relatant quotidiennement des anecdotes. Définition Pointblog.com: Autrement dit, un blogue est un site web dynamique où un (ou des) auteur laisse des traces de leurs idées/opinions/travaux/recettes/voyages/lectures... et où des internautes peuvent laisser des commentaires/pisteurs. Le blogue reflète les opinions de son auteur.
Building a Personal Learning Network (PLN) by Jane Bozarth “Simply showing up is not enough. As with most things in life, you get back what you put in. If you want to build a Personal Learning Network, then you must be an active part of that network; it’s not a spectator sport.” Since Social Media for Trainers was published I’ve fielded lots of questions about incorporating social media tools into workplace learning endeavors. Another question that comes up relates to the developmental needs of trainers and instructional designers: What are some strategies for building or extending your own Personal Learning Network (PLN) via social media tools? Who? My interests are in e-Learning, instructional design, social learning, and social media. Where? My best time investment all week is the Twitter-based #lrnchat, which happens twice each Thursday (11:30 am ET with questions repeated at 8:30 pm ET). What else? Brown, Davison, & Hegel’s Power of Pull stresses the importance of reaching outside your usual areas of interest and expertise. Figure 2. How?