{"id":30325,"date":"2012-06-27T09:19:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T13:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=30325"},"modified":"2012-06-27T09:21:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T13:21:44","slug":"when-building-an-adult-ed-program-here-are-some-thoughts-to-consider-from-the-tech-side-of-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/06\/27\/when-building-an-adult-ed-program-here-are-some-thoughts-to-consider-from-the-tech-side-of-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"When building an adult ed program, here are some thoughts to consider from the tech side of the house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><br \/>\nI recently wrote a piece for EvoLLLution.com &#8212; a site focused on <span style=\"color: #800000;\">L<\/span>ife<span style=\"color: #800000;\">L<\/span>ong<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> L<\/span>earning:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolllution.com\/curriculum_planning\/technology-literacy-should-be-a-consideration-in-any-adult-education-program\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-30326\" title=\"DSC-EvolllutionArticle-6-27-12\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DSC-EvolllutionArticle-6-27-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"721\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DSC-EvolllutionArticle-6-27-12.jpg 535w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DSC-EvolllutionArticle-6-27-12-111x150.jpg 111w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Some linked up resources along these lines:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>RSS feeds<\/strong><br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvin.edu\/%7Edsc8\/rss.htm\" target=\"_blank\">understand RSS feeds<\/a>; obtain a feed aggregator such as <a href=\"http:\/\/support.google.com\/reader\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=113517\" target=\"_blank\">Google Reader<\/a>; subscribe to the relevant blogs and websites in one\u2019s discipline; create your own blog, using <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress<\/a> for example; post your own relevant items on it, while not forgetting to point people towards your own RSS feed!)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n(get an account; identify knowledgeable people; follow them on twitter; post your own items on twitter)<\/li>\n<li>See if there are some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yammer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Yammer<\/strong><\/a><strong>-based <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewenger.com\/theory\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>communities of practice<\/strong><\/a> in your enterprise or in your desired discipline (there are other social networking\/learning applications as well)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/\"><strong>LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJoin groups that line up with your industry, your profession and your professional aspirations, engage in discussions on best practice and use your groups and connections as a network of colleagues.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n\u201cLike\u201d institutions or organizations that are relevant to your area of interest and reach out to individuals within your field.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Community bookmarking tools<\/strong> such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Delicious<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\" target=\"_blank\">diigo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ways to discover content on the web<\/strong> such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">StumbleUpon<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digg<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: I recently wrote a piece for EvoLLLution.com &#8212; a site focused on LifeLong Learning: &nbsp; . Some linked up resources along these lines: RSS feeds (understand RSS feeds; obtain a feed aggregator such as Google Reader; subscribe to the relevant blogs and websites in one\u2019s discipline; create your own blog, using WordPress for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[374,72,15,44,460],"tags":[386,606,576,590,785],"class_list":["post-30325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-learning","category-daniel-s-christian","category-lifelong-learning","category-pace-of-change","category-technology-general","tag-adult-learnerslearning","tag-daniel-s-christian","tag-lifelong-learning","tag-pace-of-change","tag-technology-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30325"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30331,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30325\/revisions\/30331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}