1 - How to use social media in formal learning is a short online programme running 9-20 March at the Social Learning Centre.
Social media tools are increasingly being used in classrooms and workshops as well as in online courses. This short programme provides some ideas and suggestions for using social tools to enhance the social aspects of formal learning in your course, programme or training event.
2 - Social intranet case study: PepsiCo Russia
… the new consolidated company required a new, modern interactive intranet portal to facilitate collaboration and interaction with a highly social, enterprise 2.0 focus. With social in mind, the project team looked to external social media to influence and shape the collaboration functionality, namely: Facebook, VKontakte, LinkedIn, and Google +
3 – Here are Harold Jarche’s Friday Finds – Sharing beyond the classroom and cubicle – including this gem
“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. ~ Peter F. Drucker” via @montberte
4 – Here are 9 specific ways to use Twitter - here’s No 5
To Learn
Twitter can be a great learning platform – on any subject. If you are clear about what you want to learn, the time horizon you have in mind and the time you are willing to invest – you can adopt different strategies on how you can accomplish this. But at a high level, this translates to identifying the Twitter handles that are considered knowledgeable in the specific area(s) under question, and then follow their tweets. Over a period of time, you would have learnt way beyond your own expectation and imagination
