Learning with e's

MARCH 1, 2016

By 2006 several social networking sites were enjoying surges in popularity, including MySpace, Bebo and of course, Facebook. Social media lend themselves naturally to support learning through discussions, collaboration and sharing. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched. Unported License. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 22, 2010

Here's the abstract for my keynote: New Spaces, New Pedagogies: Harnessing the Power of Social Media in Education A rapid emergence of social media – the so called ‘Web 2.0’ – has opened up new opportunities for participatory learning in all sectors of education. Unported License. wikis privacy digital identity.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 5, 2015

Sharing content for free was amplified into popularity by the advent of the social networks. The likes of Friendster, and later MySpace, Bebo and Faceboook (some would argue that the BBS users were the first), promoted the idea that you could connect with those you knew, and you could share your thoughts with them. van Dijk, J.

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Learning with e's

MAY 29, 2013

Whether or not we realise it, if we regularly use social media, we are members of the world wide digital tribe. Social media, the most social of all modern technologies, provided us with shared virtual spaces where we could ''meet''. Either way, we tend to go where our friends are, and that changes over time.

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Learning with e's

JULY 11, 2011

These statistics also fail to take into account all the other content that is being generated on, for example Flickr (more than 3000 images each minute ), Wikipedia, Facebook (3 billion photos and 20 million videos uploaded every month ), Myspace, Wiktionary, Vimeo, Picasa and innumerable other user generated content repositories.

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