Larry does a good job of rounding up some of the most useful apps for educational use … Check it out here.
I’d not heard of some of these until now.
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites Of The Day For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL » Blog Archive » The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education — [...]
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In January this year we asked various industry experts for their predictions for 2007. Now it’s time to revisit those Ghosts of E-learning future to see if they rattled the right chains. Let’s see how they did
Maybe it’s me, but I haven’t seen much embracing of some of these in the corporate and education worlds [...]
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James Robertson has some thoughts about collaboration - bringing up the point that it is first and foremost about people … or person-to-person interactions and dynamics.
Some of my favorite lil’ gems …
It make no sense to roll out collaboration tools to the whole organisation. Collaboration takes place between people, and can’t be [...]
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Posted in Miscellany, Net Generation, business models, collaboration, enterprise 2.0, facebook, informal learning, learning, presentation tools, presentations, social networks, stupid stupid companies, technology, web 2.0, web culture on November 17, 2007 | No Comments »
Slashdot: US Control of Internet Remains an Issue … my question: what is a truly good or compelling reason for this? I’ve not yet heard one - other than they just don’t like the U.S. having it. Gotta be a better reason than that.
(see also: Webpronews.com: U.S. Control of Internet Still A Concern)
Facebook’s Brilliant [...]
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Interesting information from a KPMG survey: Web 2.0 Tools Fostering Collaboration - and Risk.
Trying to bring participative web apps/platforms/tools into work (focusing on getting tasks done or managing a small project) is generally not difficult on an individual level. Most of the time that can be and is done ‘under the radar screen.’ The [...]
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Hot diggity! another simple and straightforward explanation of Google Docs. These guys at CommonCraft simply rock!
Oh to send this to everyone I work with who still insist on emailing the design documents, storyboards, and such … ARRRRRRRRGH (by the way: Talk Like a Pirate Day is today!)
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I’ve been following Harold Jarche’s posts lately on knowledge resilience and informal learning which really is a series of short entries … each one giving some great nuggets of info. Here’s to get you started in his series …
Small steps toward knowledge resilience
Step 1: Free your bookmarks
Step 2: Aggregate
Short, simple, direct, easy to follow … [...]
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Posted in collaboration, collaborative writing, enterprise 2.0, informal learning, knowledge transfer, presentations, productivity, social networks, technology, web 2.0, web culture, wiki on August 12, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Meet Charlie … an interesting Slideshare presentation that (IMHO) explains the concepts of this thing called enterprise 2.0 … extolling the use of RSS, wikis, blogs, social networking, web-based collaboration and project management, and podcasting, to name a few.
Sounds promising, huh? This is the office or work stream of the future, you think? Maybe so … [...]
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Posted in enterprise 2.0, wiki on July 10, 2007 | No Comments »
Melanie Turek at Collaboration Loop put up an article about her thoughts and experiences around enterprise wikis.
And it got me ta thinking … hers has been my own experience by and large.
I’ve used and continue to use wikis for projects, small teams/workgroups, and for a class that I teach … but I’ve not [...]
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Just saw this on InformationWeek’s site: Motorola’s IT Department Takes on Enterprise 2.0
At first the numbers are impressive in and of themselves - 70,000 users every day; 4,400 blogs; 4,200 wiki pages … then … (emphasis mine)
“It’s beyond the wisdom of the hive, it actually lets people see new relationships, to see maps of what [...]
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Saw this reference on Jay Cross’ Informal Learning Blog:
Younger Workers Demanding Web 2.0 Tech On The Job … wherein he cites a Yahoo News story …
Younger employees — like that new batch of college grads hitting the market right now — are going to be pushing employers to use Web 2.0 technologies on [...]
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Okay - my previous post, here, was just a collection o’ links with two very general observations on my part.
Ray Sims has joined in - check it out - where he offers his thoughts.
PLE are very personal both in the sense of being independent of the university or employer and in the sense of [...]
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From a ZDNet blog: Web 2.0 for the enterprise: Wisdom of the employees I read (bold emphasis is mine) … and you should watch the vid clip that’s there too:
It’s a major cultural shift for organizations governed by centralized command and control to allow usage of bottom up, lightweight, less costly, distributed, collaborative Web tools that [...]
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