Saturday, March 30, 2013

Personal Learning Networks


Personal Learning Networks

     It must be hard for the present generation to believe that some years ago to acquire a piece of information men had to go to a library borrow a book and through the pages for hours or even days. Now Google, baidu and lots of search engines have made life
frighteningly easy for us. You don't have to see the steps of your library, library will
come to your doorstep now.

Searching information is now 'outsourcedto search engines. We will discuss how to pin point the factoid or information you are looking for and filter out the junk which comes with it.
     There are loads of tools available in the web Facebook, twitter, YouTube, weibo to name a few.
            Facebook: - Mostly used to upload party pics in western world. However in Asia (which includes Middle East and India) it is also used to indulge in starting some politically oriented discussions as well as social issues. We can also learn many things with academic as well as 
business oriented features if we 'like' pages related to the topic.

          YouTube: - You can see lot of pages related to software training, programming and other learning materials in YouTube if you know to use it well then you can learn a lot.

          Twitter: - You can contact the academics, educators and industrialist using clever use of twitter.

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