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What Schools Can Learn About Communication From the Vatican’s Former Social Media Chief

Edsurge

Two years later, Pope Benedict XVI made a Twitter account, which today claims nearly 18 million followers. When I arrived in the Vatican around 2007-2008, everything was beginning to happen with digital communications. I had no professional training. But he’s a teacher at heart. I was lucky.

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Experiences in Self-Determined Learning: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0

User Generated Education

These experiences come from a wide variety of interests including school education, higher education, workplace learning, consulting, lifelong learning, training, and community education. Other than libraries and news outlets, students were dependent on the educator to provide them with information. Education 1.0 Education 1.0

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The changing Web

Learning with 'e's

It truly is the ‘architecture of participation’ (Barsky and Purdon, 2006) and demands active engagement as a natural part of its character (Kamel Boulos and Wheeler, 2007). Delicious, Diigo), microblogs such as Twitter, mashups (e.g. We know of some of the benefits and the limitations it brings to education and training.

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Apps: a call for nominations and a round-up of review ources

NeverEndingSearch

Since 2007 Jane Hart , Founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT) , has been creating the most wonderful lists of tools based on international survey input from educators, experts, instructional designers, consultants, developers and vendors. Follow them @BalefireLabs.

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Learning technology teacher development blog: Online Video: For Language Development

Nik Peachey

2007. (28). I specialise in writing computer based learning materials for language development and teacher training. Keep up with me on Twitter. Posted by Nik Peachey. Labels: scripts , social network , video , vocabulary. 0 comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites. They’re amazing.

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Developing networks, readers, and interaction online

Connecting 2 the World

In many cases, students would try out the same technology, such as twitter or facebook, but using it slightly different so they could determine the affordance of that technology for a particular purpose. What training or experience will employees need to use the technology effectively? twitter mentions or searches using hashtags).