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This video is a 9 minute video of some outtakes from a conference about informal learning and web 2.0 technology. The speakers in this video discuss how web 2.0 tools and informal learning are on the “same side of the coin.” The speakers also discuss how education is linear and how we need to change that so it isn’t linear anymore…Linear education doesn’t work anymore! || Shannon Marsiglia [|Robert Jordan-Informal Learning] In this podcast, Robert Jordan discusses informal learning within our world. He discusses where informal learning can occur in places other than education. He also discusses the different controversies about what informal learning is and how we can be used in different forms in several areas of our lives.
 * Group C:** Search out and evaluate any videos and podcasts you find on Informal Learning.
 * **Name** || **Video or Podcast** || **Review** ||
 * GinnyS || Encouraging Informal Learning || Podcast: Jay Cross and George talk about ways they are going to encourage informal learning for a conference using wikis, podcasts and social bookmarks. ||
 * Gloria Herlihy || media type="youtube" key="wk9u1L-pMKo?fs=1" height="221" width="273" || This is a short video on defining informal learning. I like that this person has put informal learning into perspective and he identifies it as being more social and more student driven. ||
 * Gloria Herlihy || [] || This 13 min. podcast is an interview of Robert Jordan who was a PhD candidate at PSU last year. He talks a lot about using web 2.0 to help with informal learning and addresses a lot of issues of informal learning in the work place. This really is going on, so the schools that are moving in that direction can help students be better prepared to enter a workforce where this is happening, He also points out the difficulties in tracking and measuring informal learning. ||
 * Mary Hoffman || [|Xyleme Voices] || Elliot Maisie discusses informal learning as a learning that “originates from the learner not the organization”. He also discusses what companies are doing and aren’t doing with informal learning. He also states how informal learning can be measured and what organizations can do to promote informal learning. ||
 * Mary Hoffman || media type="youtube" key="kakCOKJ9AUE?fs=1" height="203" width="335" || This six minute video is an interview with Dr. Alan Thomas on informal learning. He talks about what informal learning is, examples of it, and how important it is in education. ||
 * Molly Davis || media type="custom" key="7523423" || This is a 5 minute powerpoint presentation with audio on informal learning in the classroom. It was made by Karen Moore, it gives ideas of how to use infromal learning by integrating the web, wikis and more' ||
 * Shannon Marsiglia || media type="youtube" key="Pi3r-GBD1tk?fs=1" height="267" width="441" || 

media type="youtube" key="NlETGJ0mnno?fs=1" height="385" width="480" Munachiso Onuoha: The speaker Jake refers to Informal Learning as anything that is not formal learning. He refers to formal learning as a "curriculum, a certificate or degree based on a specific training or course work". Where as informal learning refers to on the job learning, ways that we interact with people to gain knowledge, acquiring information on our own doing research. It is more than just theory it is something that we do all the time. Web 2.0 enhances the use of informal learning through social networks, podcasts, blogs etc. It allows people to have that virtual connection to anyone in the world to gain access to new information,