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.

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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

JANUARY 1, 2013

Is technology actually a threat to good learning, creating a generation of superficial learners, or do interactive tools such as social media and search engines provide us with unprecedented access to knowledge? by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Lots of us use Twitter, and some of those out on the periphery may still be using Myspace or Bebo. What else do we need to learn about social networking that can help us or our students to learn better? Jonathan Rose has some interesting things to say about how social networking helps his off-line (for this read 'real life') world.

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eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Understanding the Tools of the Social Learning Landscape - Free as in Freedom , November 2, 2010I am with Mark Oelhert this morning in his all day workshop about the tools of the Social Learning Landscape. Mark’s focus is to look at social media tools, their impact on an organisation’s culture. My conclusion?

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