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Learn to Adapt Links for September 18th through September 21st

Posted by Jeff Kelly on September 21, 2008

Ping – Technology Doesn’t Dumb Us Down. It Frees Our Minds. – NYTimes.com – Damon Darlin's thoughtful response to the Atlantic Monthly article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"
Stanford School of Engineering – The Stanford Engineering Everywhere program offers full courses in the school's engineering program online. They include classes in computer science and artificial intelligence. The courses include lecture videos, reading lists, handouts, quizzes, tests, and a social network.

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Learn to Adapt Links for September 17th

Posted by Jeff Kelly on September 18, 2008

The Social Enterprise – Steve Gillmor at TechCrunchIT posts thoughtful reflection on (some) IT leaders resistance to social applications in the enterprise. From the article: "No wonder the reaction is fear and denial; the saving grace is that a new wave of middle management will not tolerate the arrogance of earlier times, when IT was the implementor of corporate policies designed to prevent employees from wasting time on the job."
Social Learning : eLearning Technology – Tony Karrer's blog's his thoughts on Grockit and a few other social learning communities/platforms…

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Learn to Adapt Links for September 8th through September 14th

Posted by Jeff Kelly on September 14, 2008

Ten Aspects of Web 2.0 Strategy That Every CTO and CIO Should Know [Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog] – Don't enter into the the article lightly, but Dion does a great job of summarizing some of the most salient concepts to consider when building a "Web 2.0" business strategy. Skip the verbose diagram, read the ten points then come back to the diagram and mull it over. (Come back and review it later if you don't have time to mull things over now…)
Training Method Trends : eLearning Technology – Tony Karrer pulls together the results of a survey done by the eLearningGuild that marks the trends in learning (training) delivery methods. Nothing truly surprising in the results, but a useful gathering of statistics nonethe less.

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Learn to Adapt Links for September 6th through September 7th

Posted by Jeff Kelly on September 7, 2008

Businesses Can’t Hide From 2.0: A Look At 2.0’s Impact Across Industries – Sarah Perez provides a nice summary of examples of how "Web 2.0" platforms are impacting business.
A Tale of Two Tunnels: Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 – Thomas Vander Wal in spins a tiny little analogy in Social Computing Magazine to discuss the current state of the those two titan buzzwords "Web 2.0" and "Enterprise 2.0".

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Learn to Adapt Links for September 4th

Posted by Jeff Kelly on September 4, 2008

130 Social Media Marketing Examples From Major Brands – Peter Kim from SocialComputingMagazine.compulls together a really nice list of "Examples of companies using and being used by social media marketing…" Using social tools to build your brand is becoming increasingly important for every company. The Web is the "world's largest water cooler conversation" – ignore it at your brand's peril.
Ten leading platforms for creating online communities – Dion puts together a list of top platforms for building online communities. From the article: "It’s beginning to be understood that communities aren’t just for socializing but for getting things done."

Tags: bookmark, brand, collaboration, community, enterprise2.0, hinchcliffe, l2a, marketing, socialmedia, software, Web2.0

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Learn to Adapt Links for September 3rd

Posted by Jeff Kelly on September 3, 2008

Web 2.0 Corporate Access : eLearning Technology – Steve Karrer and the eLearningGuild compile some statistics about corporate worker access to Web 2.0 applications. Not sure the scope validity of the study but it is in line with what we are seeing at Web 2.0 University
Six Degrees of Separation Is Now Three – More interesting data as we move from the "information age" to the "connected age". From the post:
"According to the study, the average person is now connected by just three degrees within a shared “interest” or social group instead of six. In fact, it found that people are usually a part of three main networks: family, friendship, and work."

Tags: bookmark, community, elearning, enterprise2.0, future, l2a, people, socialnetworking, trends, Web2.0

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Learn to Adapt Links for August 24th through August 26th

Posted by Jeff Kelly on August 26, 2008

Sakai – Collaboration and Learning Environment for Education – Sakai is a free and open source online Collaboration and Learning Environment. Many users of Sakai deploy it to support teaching and learning, ad hoc group collaboration, support for portfolios and research collaboration.
Researchers mull gaming’s impact on learning – The power of game playing in learning is well established. New research shows how it continues to hold true for those "horrible" video games. From the article: "Studies suggest the benefits of playing video games go well beyond thrills. One study even looked at whether playing "World of Warcraft," the world's biggest multiplayer online game, can improve scientific thinking. The conclusion? Certain types of video games can have benefits beyond the virtual thrills of blowing up demons or shooting aliens.

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Learn to Adapt Links for August 22nd

Posted by Jeff Kelly on August 22, 2008

Web 2.0 Continues As Most Used New Internet Term [Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog] – Dion Hinchcliffe's latest musing on the state of "Web 2.0"
Free Will vs. the Programmed Brain: Scientific American – More thoughts on the existence of free will: "If our actions are determined by prior events, then do we have a choice about anything—or any responsibility for what we do?"

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Learn to Adapt Links for August 18th

Posted by Jeff Kelly on August 18, 2008

TV remains top source of news even as online grows –
Why We’re Failing in Math and Science – O’Reilly Radar – A great post from Tim O'Reilly reminding us how America is "dumbing down" just when we need to be building education and intelligence in order to compete in the global marketplace.
Do Social Networks Bring the End of Privacy?: Scientific American – SciAm considers how new Web behaviors are changing our ideas of privacy and ponders if "Existing law should be extended to allow some privacy protection for things that people say and do in what would have previously been considered the public domain."

Tags: bookmark, education, fear, l2a, media, news, privacy, science, social, socialnetworking, statistics, television

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Learn to Adapt Links for August 12th

Posted by Jeff Kelly on August 12, 2008

Web 2.0: The Future of Collaborative Government | Federal Government | State Government – Deloitte LLP – The high-level summary is still to come, but this page includes a 10 minute video and links to information about the speakers when "On June 3, 2008, Deloitte and the National Academy of Public Administration convened a group of government leaders, subject matter experts and forward thinkers to develop a road map to help the next administration navigate the work force and organization changes that need to occur to move to a more collaborative model of government."
Gartner sees Hype Cycle for Social Software « Shepherd’s Pi – Nice summary post from Lewis Shepherd on Gartner's 2008 Hype Curve that shows )amongst many other things) that “Web 2.0 software” is falling from its “Peak of Inflated Expectations” and is on its way to a “Trough of Disillusionment.”

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