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New spaces, new pedagogies

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They can easily connect into and maintain contact with multiple communities of interest, gaining access to experts using social networking tools such as Myspace and Facebook. They can organise their own resources through free and easy to use tagging and social filtering tools. Unported License.

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

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By 2006 several social networking sites were enjoying surges in popularity, including MySpace, Bebo and of course, Facebook. That is, the technologies that dominated educational technology in the 1970s were technologies that were primarily teacher controlled and oriented toward instruction. Unported License.

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Reach out and connect

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One of the digital literacies I identified in yesterday's blogpost was effective social networking. 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?

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Share trading

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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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Global digital tribe

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Membership of digital clans can be volatile, as has been demonstrated in the sharp rise and decline of once popular tribal online spaces such as Bebo or MySpace. The most familiar social space, particularly for distributed work teams, is the social network. Charlotte, NC: Information Age. Unported License.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Is Facebook the next Microsoft?

Learning Visions

Facebook: "The difference with Facebook will be how the various applications are glued together, and this is where Facebook already has the advantage: Facebook’s origins as a social networking site means that everything they launch is linked in to that central core. United States License. Template by Tina Chen.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Gin System

Learning Visions

It seems to me that a system like this could provide some of the networking that FaceBook provides -- within an organization -- and provide a lot of content. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Have you heard of it? United States License. Template by Tina Chen.