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Faceworking

Learning with e's

Should we try to use social networking services such as Facebook and Myspace as serious educational tools, or should they remain the domain of informal chat and backstage antics? There are 6 main articles in the issue, but two stand out for me, both of which deal with how Facebook is being used in education.

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One degree of connection

Learning with e's

as it turned out), there were no social networks, no internet, and a cumbersome analogue fixed line telephone system which most of the world was excluded from. They point to the social fabric of SNs (norms, language, sociability, tolerance, support) as vital ingredients to successful learning of this kind. Reference: Ryberg, T.

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Going geographical

Learning with e's

I'm very pleased to have been invited, because although I am not a geographer, geography was always one of my favourite topics in school, and is a social science to which I have great affinity. I keep dozens of back copies of the National Geographic journal at home and I'm an avid viewer of the National Geographic channel.

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Top 100 Tools for Learning in 2014

OpenSesame

IFTTT - Automated rules for your social networks—"If I post a blog, than share the post via Twitter and Facebook.". JustDeleteMe - Want to delete that old MySpace account but aren''t sure how? Duolingo - Free language education app that has a reading, writing and speaking component. Path is the network for you.

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Blogging to Peak in 2007?

Tony Karrer

The questions: Do you feel that Gartner's prediction will apply to educators in general? By end of 2007, will those educators who would ever dabble in blogging have dabbled? And if so, where will that leave blogging as a tool for education? Will it only be used by educators that have kept up blogging.

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Multi-Generational Learning in the Workplace

Janet Clarey

Google, Google Scholar, and Wikipedia for homework, the school’s VLE/LMS, instant message, text, profile on a social networking service like Facebook or MySpace.). Because I watch YouTube videos, have a Facebook, and text doesn’t mean I expect you to use those to train me at work). Education at a Distance.

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Top 100 Tools for Learning in 2014

OpenSesame

IFTTT – Automated rules for your social networks—”If I post a blog, than share the post via Twitter and Facebook.” JustDeleteMe – Want to delete that old MySpace account but aren’t sure how? Duolingo – Free language education app that has a reading, writing and speaking component.