Learning 2.0: When to Use Wikis, Blogs and Social Networks

Which tools are appropriate for creating or viewing content?
Which tools are more focused on people or information?
Donald H Taylor explains very clearly the different uses for wikis, blogs and social networks according to whether they are used for viewing or for creating content, and also according to whether the focus of that content is mostly [...]

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Your Twitter Home – Don’t Miss Tweets From Your Friends

I think there are still many Twitter users missing some tweets so I created this mini tutorial to teach those using Twitter from the Web how not to miss the most important tweets, those @tweets sent to them.
Login to Twitter Here. You will be redirected to your Twitter Home page, where you can read the [...]

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Related Posts: Using Del.icio.us in Education

Related Posts: Using Del.icio.us in Education
- Using Del.icio.us in Education
- Use Del.icio.us to Create Your Eportfolio
- Yes, I am Searching for Content and Not for Bloggers
- Why do I Appreciate so Much a Delicious Bookmark Sent to Me?
- Using Web 2.0 Tools for Teaching – Where to Start?
- Using Del.icio.us for [...]

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Using Del.icio.us for Blogging

My previous post, Using Del.icio.us in Education has been bookmarked by several people. Some of them have become my fans, and my friends in my emapey Del.icio.us network.
In this post I want to show how del.icio.us can also be used as a Blog. From About Del.icio.us we read:
Save bookmarks to [...]

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Using Del.icio.us in Education

I think that Del.icio.us is one of the most useful Web 2.0 tools. It facilitates:
- saving and accessing your bookmarks online
- promoting your own sites (you bookmark in Del.icio.us your best pages, don’t you?)
- finding bookmarks from other users on your network (they are searching for relevant sites for you)
- networking with other users [...]

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Use Del.icio.us to Create Your Eportfolio

Great example from Dr. Helen Barrett of how to use del.icio.us to create a version of your eportfolio. Via: Random Mind
Other examples of educators using del.icio.us to create their eportfolio:
- Weblogg-ed
- Sarah’s Musings
- The Bamboo Project Blog
- Social Honeycomb
I have an AboutMe bundle tag on del.icio.us as my eportfolio.
It includes [...]

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My List of Top 10 Favorite Tools I Use for Working and Learning Online

The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies is building a Top 100 Favorites List of Tools used for personal working and learning or for creating and delivering learning solutions. Jane Hart invited me to contribute. I submitted, then, my own list of Top 10 Personal Favorite Tools

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List of Fun Stories from People Working Online from Home

I work online from home. The Onlinesapiens Blog is part of my online home business. I have my own online office at home. This is a list of links to fun stories from people working online from home, as I do.
1- I do not work in the nude and other issues with working (and [...]

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Wikis for Learning

One of the important discoveries was how collaborative wiki-based learning built on practical abilities in ways that than traditionally passive instructing doesn’t. Whereas in textbook based learning the activity focus is to get students to remember, understand and apply knowledge, collabrative learning encourages them to analyze, evaluate, and create.
Source: Wikinomics
It is [...]

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Connective Writing Changes the Way We Learn

Connective Writing Is…
1. Writing that is inspired by reading and is therefore a response to an idea or a set of ideas or conversations.
2. Writing that synthesizes those ideas and remixes them in some way to make them our own and is published to potentially wide audiences.
3. Writing that then becomes a part of a [...]

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