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Daily Bookmarks 10/04/2008

Experiencing eLearning

iterating toward openness » Blog Archive » If Facebook Worked Like Blackboard. A short post, but very pointed–if Facebook worked like an LMS, no real community would ever develop. tags: facebook , education , e-learning , lms , blackboard , openaccess. What if Facebook worked like Blackboard (or pretty much any other LMS)?

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Daily Bookmarks 04/28/2008

Experiencing eLearning

Udutu has a beta system out called UdutuTeach and UdutuLearn to turn social networking sites like Facebook into an LMS. tags: lms , facebook , socialnetworking. Udutu brings to the eLearning community the world’s first LMS designed to run on popular Social Networks such as Facebook. nets-implementation » home.

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TCC08: Creating and Teaching a College-Level Undergraduate Course in Social Networking

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Right now, this is “Tier 1″ Proprietary with some customization (like Facebook & MySpace). In the chat, there was some good discussion about how sites like Facebook may not be the best for meeting new people, but rather for maintaining and improving existing relationships. Predicts a tiered structure will develop.

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Daily Bookmarks 06/25/2008

Experiencing eLearning

Brief summary of research on the educational benefits of sites like MySpace and Facebook for high schoolers. Social networks ‘teaching tech skills’ - vnunet.com. Students self-report learning 21st century skills, although the study doesn’t attempt to actually measure any of that learning.

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Daily Bookmarks 09/29/2008

Experiencing eLearning

Haven’t you see MySpace, facebook and blogs. Annoyingly, just as complaints about literacy multiply, along comes a technology that has promoted a renaissance in reading and writing, yet it is treated with contempt by the ‘pen and paper’ brigade. Children don’t keep diaries any more – oh yeah! They’re obsessed by diary keeping.

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First Impressions of TelePresence

Experiencing eLearning

I have all these global conversations via Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and so on all the time, but I hope all these connections never stop being remarkable. I also am struck by how amazing it is that we can have a real-time meeting with people in three US states, Canada, England, and the Netherlands. Conversation.

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TCC08: What can Educators Learn from Online Religious Communities?

Experiencing eLearning

She had not used a chat room, IM, Facebook, or MySpace before joining a site called OurPrayer.org. Chose MySpace b/c lots of existing religious tools available (e.g., Bible verse of the day). Also explored specifically Christian sites, but secular sites like MySpace may offer better options. Jeanette Eggert. Joined a group that did live chat.

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