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Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange.

Dashe & Thomson

Since I became an active Twitter user a few months ago, the application has grown on me to the point where it’s now far-and-away my favorite social media tool. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Twitter gets a bad rap. And I use the word ‘tool’ for a reason.

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TCC08: What can Educators Learn from Online Religious Communities?

Experiencing eLearning

Used MySpace & a wiki. Chose MySpace b/c lots of existing religious tools available (e.g., Also explored specifically Christian sites, but secular sites like MySpace may offer better options. She had not used a chat room, IM, Facebook, or MySpace before joining a site called OurPrayer.org. Sue Phillips.

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TCC08: Creating and Teaching a College-Level Undergraduate Course in Social Networking

Experiencing eLearning

Right now, this is “Tier 1″ Proprietary with some customization (like Facebook & MySpace). Social networking sites will continue to be important, but they require active leadership. Move from passive to active participation (Isn’t that already happening? Owned by major companies. Google Sites for the wiki.

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Change Our Traditional Approach to Education

Kapp Notes

They continue to push consumer companies for more connectivity, more ways to create their own content and more access to information through instant messaging applications and voice activated internet search. Tags: Education. Society and culture is responding to the needs of these youngsters (like it or not).

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TCC09: Evaluating Social Networking Tools for Distance Learning

Experiencing eLearning

Used social networking terms in intro and activities–intro = profile, friends = names on whiteboard, leave notes on her “wall&# (whiteboard) about what we want to know. Wordle tag cloud of presentation instead of the usual overview nice to have this instead of bullet points. Student activities. Three main points.

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Engaging the digital generation

Learning with e's

Facebook, Myspace) and video/photo sharing sites (e.g. For digital tribes, their totem – the traditional rallying point for all tribal activity – is patently the Social Web. Tags: MySpace YouTube digital tribes virtual clan social web Flickr cultural capital FaceBook digital identity.

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Cisco - Enterprise 2.0

Tony Karrer

His team measures which notions draw the most activity and cherry-picks a handful to unveil at Cisco's quarterly leadership-development program. Three of the nine notions so tested are now in active development. They'll do that by aggregating the tags employees create into "tag clouds" when they click on sites.