Weekly Bookmarks (1/15/12)
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Building a new learning environment around social tools: Technology forecast: PwC
Tony O’Driscoll explains how he uses social media with an MBA course. He also talks about social technology in the broader context of the enterprise.
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In this new context, by comparison, anybody who writes anything, whether it’s an individual or a team, is now exposed in the commons. Everybody is required to review three deliverables other than their own and rank and review them. That’s a little foreign, and there’s a fair amount of pushback on that. People say, “What do you mean, other people can see my stuff?” And I say, “Well, that’s how peer learning works.”
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The motive in this kind of social context is altruism. It’s to help others. By contrast, the motive in a business context is all about profit.
Enterprise behavior is different. You can’t take the same social technologies and plop them into a profit-making context and expect that people will immediately engage. The question is, once the underlying motivation shifts from purpose to profit, will the motivation to engage persist?
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Recover earlier versions of a file in Office 2010 – Word – Office.com
Since my laptop has periodic BSOD problems, I’m afraid I will probably need this information again. I thought I’d lost an hour’s worth of work when no autorecover option came up after a crash and the folder for autosaves appeared empty. Only 10 minutes of work lost with these directions.
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Test your change management skills | Instructional Design Fusions
Simulation game for change management. Try to get the staff of a fictional junior high to adopt peer tutoring. I failed on my first attempt.
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Tools for creating bibliographies, organizing research, and planning