M-learning, E-Learning, and Technical Communications

This one comes from @ProEdit by way of @edudemic.  Even though I might not be writing many academic/professional papers these days, I think it's good to know how to do these citations properly. The world is changing where content does come from social media, so it's important to know how to do such citations. 

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Thanks to @drchuckd for finding this gem. Agile and ADDIE are the content strategy of e-learning, so why wouldn't we use more than one way to achieve that goal? 

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Fantastic article found by @SkipperAbel. I wish I saw more fellow women in IT! This is partially why I promote STEM for girls and women...so much to contribute, but not enough of a presence still. 

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This article comes to us courtesy of @AMAnet. For anyone who says that there are no such things as learning styles, I respectfully disagree. When you work with children or adults who have learning difficulties, these learning styles become much more apparent, and one learns not to take these cognitive instincts for granted. I know I don't!
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The more I read Darin Hammond's blog, the more I love it. It truly speaks to me, especially as a fellow blogger! This is a great blog post about how to get over writer's block. I know that I get stuck quite often, but when I do have some ideas to approach later, I start drafts of the blog post to finish later--similar to Darin's one suggestion of when and how to jot down notes for ideas. I have about three or four items lined up for if the current well runs dry, and I can pick up those topics later as they are not time-sensitive. 

Bravo on another fantastic, must-read post, Darin!

--techcommgeekmom

My friend Sandy O'Neil found this one and sent it to me via LinkedIn. It's really cool to see how prolific social media is--even using only this one tool! Of course, I'm a big believer in Twitter (although I wasn't initially, I will admit). Most of my connections nowadays are through Twitter, and my Twitter followers and those who are followed are always growing! 

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Darin L. Hammond has done it again! He posted this excellent article that he wrote about things that should be included in a blog. I think I follow all of these--or at least I try. Nice guidelines!

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An excellent article for Mother's Day. I also know lots of other tech comm moms and geekmoms who might not be leaders of industry, but are still influential in their field. 

--techcommgeekMOM

This is a really interesting article that seems to be going--or has gone--viral. In reading it, it brings back memories of one of the last courses I took in graduate school titled, "Technological and Cultural Change" (although that name is a new moniker for the class, but the objective was the same).  I still remember having to read Sherry Turkle's latest book, "Alone Together", as well as Ihde's "Bodies in Technology" and Hayles' "How We Became Post-Human." Many online debates and discussions centered around our connections with technology, and how much of it was how society was becoming increasingly dependent on technology for intercommunications rather than personal communications, and how was society's perception of interaction was changing. When telephone, radio, and television were first becoming mainstream, society thought that it would change human interaction. It did, but not necessarily in a bad way.  I see things the same way as the author of this article. Yes, I can unplug, but ultimately--at least for me--it is the internet that keeps me connected to the outside world.

Being an Aspie, I have found it MUCH easier to start and develop friendships and personal relationships using the internet than without it. My whole world opened up once I had internet connectivity. Heck, I met my husband online, well before any of these online dating websites, and I don't think I would've met him otherwise. We realized at that at one point, we lived in the same apartment complex and probably shopped at the same supermarket, and yet we never noticed each other.  With the Internet, I've reconnected with friends with whom I'd lost touch literally decades ago, and rekindled those old friendships into current ones. I'm almost old enough to be the author's mother (okay, maybe his aunt), and I've been connected online almost as long as he's been alive. My world wouldn't be the way it is now without the Internet. The trick is understanding how to use it effectively, and that's what I think this guy needed to understand--the Internet's true value. 

I know there are things I still don't do, like Skype my brother and his family who live almost 500 miles away, for example, but I'm still connected via Facebook and other social media. We're not big phone people, but I always felt that one of the reasons I loved email, texting and social media was that it didn't always have to be real-time conversations. It just had to be conversations. And I'm okay with that. A connection is still a connection. 

--techcommgeekmom

Thanks to +AaronBradley for posting this on Google+. One thing I have learned over the past ten years or so is that technology moves so fast that you need to keep up. Before I was a stay-at-home mom, I was a content project manager. When I decided to go back to work several years later, I couldn't find a project management job to save my life. I had to take a few steps backwards into web publishing, which brought me back forward, but into a different direction. I also went back to school because I knew there would be things that I would need to either refresh in my mind or learn. Keep up your continuing education! This article is proof!
--techcommgeekmom