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The Power of Educational Technology: Preparing Students to Succeed in the 21st Century

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Online social networks, such as Ning , Twitter , and even Facebook , provide teachers with a way to meet colleagues from around the world and around the country. Preparing students to navigate and sift through an excess of information. Students need to be given opportunities to share information with a larger audience.

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Being Lightweight: Tools We Use | Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English

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Documents - Google Docs has had a huge impact on our workflow. We do a lot of editing together and there simply isnt a better way to work on the same document at the same time. Ning Submitted by Elizabeth (not verified) on June 11, 2008 - 10:01am. I agree about Facebook, but see Ning as lightweight. » reply.

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Connecting 2 the World: Lessons learned from New Communication Technologies in Organziational Life

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In each of the units, there were some commonalities: a different way to access to information and share information, new organization, different means of communication and (with that) new communication skills, and a greater level of work and personal life intersection. The result is less formal communication (i.e.

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The Bamboo Project Blog

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Our jobs as learning professionals shift from being primarily content producers to facilitating others in creating their own content, showing them how they can actively engage with information and learning materials, teaching them how to be self-directed learners. informal learning.â?? As long as we persist in seeing Web 2.0

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WMC Interviews: Tim Young of Socialcast

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WebMarketCentral (WMC): Tim, it appears that unlike tools such as Ning or Zanby , which are designed to let organizations create their own external social networks, Socialcast is more of an internal corporate social network tool, sort of an "Intranet 2.0" We employ a wiki-like feature called "Pages" inside Socialcast.

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Connecting 2 the World

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Younger workers embrace new technology because it is new and the intrinsic value of anything new, whereas older workers adopt it either because it is required (through policy or, informally, required to stay within the organizational power structure) or because it is demonstrated to achieve results (later adoption). Thursday, June 12, 2008.