Jim Ferolo, assistant professor and member of the Tappestry team, discusses the importance of informal learning and social learning within academia and the enterprise. Conferences Pedagogy and Learning User Experience Video 1871 Chicago Float Mobile Learning Symposium 2012 informal learning social learning Tappestry Techweek MORE >>

MOOC), or gearing up for a Personal Learning Network (PLN) is the selection of meaning social media tools. In order to get an overview of the big families in social media, I started to make a list for my own comprehension and future selection. If you see that I have missed a group or set of social media tools, feel free to let me know. Social Media Tool Why use it + implementation Example with possible extra Idea and content sharing Microblogging Twitter allows the learner group to share short messages with one another, linking it to more content. Video (e.g. MORE >>

The future of social networking – a concept investigation Posted by matt on October 01, 2009 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my blog and get updates either via email or via RSS. It’s an investigation into how social networking may work in the future, focusing on mobile and augmented reality (AR). But you can see how valuable (and scary) this could be when applied to a social networking paradigm. You’d instantly have information returned about that person within seconds, gleaned from an automatic web, public profile and social network search. MORE >>

We all got our heads together (doctors, social scientists and technologists) and set up a really cool and easy to build and implement diabetes project. Some resources If you are interested in testing out the frontlinesms medic for your own purposes, feel free to download the frontlineSMS medic program here or check out this video and start your own project yourself or with your team. social change mobile mLearning ITM health mhealth diabetes ICT4DMost of us want to make some kind of difference, making the world a better place. Finding a low cost (free and open source!) MORE >>

With education being at the crossroads it says to be and with the crisis cutting educational initiatives around the world, this video can give us some strategies to see positive change happening thanks to grassroot action. In this 25 minute video Sean Abajian shares the journey of some educational activists that were able to ralley using mobile phone calls and community action to safeguard adult education in Los Angeles. education activism mobimooc social interaction MORE >>