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Unlike a traditional blended learning environment where those who learn are fed from one source, a learning ecosystem balances those organisms (people) with the environment (organization, culture, tools).

what is the difference between blended learning and creating a learning ecosystem?  Blended learning takes on the funnel mentality.  All knowledge must funnel through the learning department’s people, systems, processes, packages and must be measured in standard ways as it goes through.  If it does not route and measure in these ways it is out of our circle of influence. In a learning ecosystem the environment is created so that learning just happens.  It is a part of work rather than separate from it.  It includes traditional blended learning when appropriate (for each piece does not lose its significance) but the funnel, for the most part, is gone.  Formal learning intersects with social learning intersects with informal learning intersects with traditional learning…

Instead of, “I am going to learning” it is “I am always learning.”

Building a Learning Community Palloff and Pratt recommend seven basic steps for building a successful learning community. These include: clearly defining the purpose of the community, creating a distinctive gathering place for the group, promoting effective leadership from within, defining norms and a clear code of conduct, allowing for a range of member roles, allowing for and facilitating of subgroups, and allowing members to resolve their own disputes. The authors caution that it is possible to develop a community that has strong social connections between the students, but where very little learning actually takes place. Thus, it is important that the instructor be actively engaged in the process and encourages students who stray from the learning goals of the course. Specifically, the authors recommend: (1) engaging students with subject matter, (2) accounting for attendance and participation, (3) working with students who do not participate, (4) understanding the signs of when a student is in trouble, and (5) building online communities that accommodate personal interaction. Indicators of a Successful Learning Community You can tell if the learning community is working when you see: active interaction, sharing of resources among students, collaborative learning evidenced by comments directed primarily student to student rather than student to instructor, socially constructed meaning evidenced by agreement or questioning, with the intent to achieve agreement on issues of meaning, and expressions of support and encouragement exchanged between students, as well as willingness to critically evaluate the work of others. Finally, they suggest that the keys to successful learning communities are honesty, responsiveness, relevance, respect, openness, and empowerment. Palloff, R.M. & Pratt, K. (1999). Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace: Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Mindomo: Premium versions of this mind mapping tool come at a cost, but you can get access to the basic version for free. It allows you to add links, pictures and text to mind maps and share them over the net.

Moodle: Post and share podcasts with an interactive online community using Moodle. You can not only post your own podcasts but get access to those of others that could provide educational value to you.

Put your notes or classroom information into an audio format with these handy apps.

Escola de Ensino Básico Integrado da Charneca de Caparicahttp://www.eb123-charneca-caparica.rcts.pt/A disponibilização de um “Oleão” no interior do estabelecimento de ensino é uma das actividades em destaque no site da Escola de Ensino Básico Integrado da Charneca de Caparica, que garante ser a primeira freguesia portuguesa a disponibilizar oleões à população em articulação com um projecto educativo.Uma das actividades consiste em explicar o que se deve fazer com os óleos alimentares, indicando o prejuízo ele que pode causar depois de usado.“Óleos alimentares – que lhes fazer?• Sabias que sempre que fazemos uma coisa tão simples como fritar batatas podemos estar a pôr em perigo o meio ambiente?• Mas só se não tivermos o devido cuidado!• É que, normalmente, para fazer petiscos fritos, de que tanta gente gosta, usam-se óleos alimentares. Depois de algumas utilizações esse óleo já não serve mais para fritar e é deitado fora pelos lava-loiças abaixo ou noutros locais...• E é aí que está o grande problema! Quando o fazemos, estamos a aumentar em milhares de euros o custo de tratamento das águas dos esgotos! Imagina!!!• Sabias que apenas uma gota de óleo pode arruinar centenas de litros de água potável?• E perguntas tu: “E o que devemos, então, fazer com o óleo?”• Se pegarmos no óleo usado e o voltarmos a colocar na respectiva embalagem vazia (ou mesmo numa garrafa de plástico qualquer), já estamos a fazer uma grande coisa.• Claro que não precisamos de ficar com as garrafas em casa, mas temos de tratar correctamente o que elas contêm. Como?• Depois de bem fechadas entrega as garrafas com o óleo velho nos pontos de recolha nomeadamente na nossa escola.Participa!Ajuda-nos a proteger o ambienteAgrupamento de Escolas da Charneca de CaparicaCom a colaboração da Junta de Freguesia da Charneca de Caparica”

Algumas escolas pediram hoje mais técnicos para cuidarem dos equipamentos a instalar no próximo ano lectivo no âmbito do Plano Tecnológico da Educação (PTE). O pedido foi feito durante a primeira sessão de apresentação do PTE, em Castelo Branco, em que participaram 120 professores dos distritos da Guarda, Leira e Castelo Branco. Face a questões colocadas por docentes, o secretário de Estado da Educação, Valter Lemos, e João da Mata, coordenador do Plano, destacaram a criação de um Centro de Apoio Tecnológico às Escolas (CATE) para todo o país. Sempre que "for identificado um problema", basta ligar um determinado número de telefone para obter uma resposta, referiu João da Mata. Uma explicação que provocou alguma agitação na plateia.

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But the concepts identified as Web 2.0 have proved to be highly insightful, even prescient, and are used around the world daily to guide everything from product development to the future of government.

The comparison above gives a cleaner, most succinct sense of what Web Squared is by comparing it to Web 1.0 and classic Web 2.0.  It's not necessarily a generation beyond Web 2.0 since many of the concepts are simply more refined or focused

the's relentless growth of devices, network connectivity, and sensors into our lives across our homes, workplaces, and external environment is casting an growing "information shadow" that is increasingly hard to ignore.

Some of these features might cause tutors to balk, but Elgg's creators say the collaborative, conversational exchanges in which today's students have become so fluent outside class are the best way to deliver learning inside it.

Broadly, Elgg represents a shift from aging, top-down classroom technologies like Blackboard to what e-learning practitioners call personal learning environments -- mashup spaces comprising del.icio.us feeds, blog posts, podcast widgets -- whatever resources students need to document, consume or communicate their learning across disciplines.

O Grupo de Trabalho - Pedagogia para a Autonomia (GT-PA) foi criado em 1997, na sequência de estudos e projectos do Departamento de Metodologias da Educação do Instituto de Educação e Psicologia da Universidade do Minho, realizados nos campos da formação de professores e da pedagogia da língua, com uma incidência prioritária nos conceitos de "reflexão" e "autonomia".

Participate in the discussion with them. Prod them when they’re being vague

make the forum worth a total of 20 points, then subjectively rate the quality of each post on a scale of 1-5

forum becomes a tool for shaping students into better, more persuasive writers.