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Facebook--Good for Your Memory: Twitter--Not So Much

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Tracy Alloway of Scotland’s University of Stirling found that using Facebook stretches a person's “working memory” (short-term or recent memory), while Twitter, YouTube and text messaging tend to weaken it. Bad news for all you Twanker's in a Twance.*

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Gamification of Learning and Instruction Theory Into Practice Blog Tour

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The Twitter hashtag for the tour is #gamiLI. complete mystery, join the tour, although I do have some articles I will be linking to.).' .” The blog book tour is a virtual tour so you can just follow along stop by stop. If you don’t have the book yet, stop by the ASTD book store a pick up a copy. December 24: No Post.

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Random Web 2.0 Statistics

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Top US Search Providers October 2009 ) There are more than 85,000 active contributors working on more than 14,000,000 articles in more than 260 languages at Wikipedia. There are approximately 3,094,793 articles in English. billion search queries were conducted at Google Search, representing 66.1

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Guest Post: 5 Effective Ways of Maximizing Mobile Tech In Learning Pursuits

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They can store articles and web clippings, images, ebooks, documents, and other learning resources over cloud services like Dropbox and SkyDrive. Or you can subscribe to our Articles & Whitepapers section for the different trends of learning such as Games and Gamification, Rapid eLearning, Informal Learning and more.

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Some Tools for Social Learning and How they Help Learning

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The ability of someone within an Intranet or Internet to mark or tag a blog entry, a link or an article within the network as important or interesting to them. What makes it social is that, with the right permissions, individuals on the network can view all of the tagged articles and blog entries and see which were tagged the most.

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Second Life Take Over Rumors.

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Here is a quote from the article. Thanks to Mal Burns , Mark Oehlert and Clark Quinn for the heads up via twitter. __ Catalog of Recommended Books, Games and Gadgets Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content Guide. Here is an interesting rumor and a potentially large game-changer in the virtual world space.

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Positive Birthday Vibes:)

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ASTD's April T&D Magazine published an article I wrote with Tony O'Driscoll called " Designing Virtual Immersive Environments " The article is based on the book Learning in 3D and outlines some considerations for learning in 3D and ways to think about the exciting new environment for learning and collaboration. (I'm