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Questioning social media

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The recent arrival of a new social network in the form of Google+ has given cause for reflection from some long-serving social media users and advocates. More remarkably, George Siemens, the founding father of connectivism, reports how he is losing interest in social media : Google+ was a bit of a breaking point for me.

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E-learning ain't what it used to be

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They would also like their learning materials to display a little intelligence, just like Amazon, Google, Facebook and all their other favourite sites – and by this they mean that they want to be recognised as an individual.

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Social media for trainers – a review

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Somewhat riskily, given the rate of change in this field and the inherent slowness of conventional book publishing, Jane deals at length with the opportunities provided by specific tools such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Indeed she admitted to me that she had been caught out by the demise of Google Wave, which she does cover briefly.

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E-learning ain't what it used to be

Clive on Learning

They would also like their learning materials to display a little intelligence, just like Amazon, Google, Facebook and all their other favourite sites – and by this they mean that they want to be recognised as an individual.

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How we spend our time in the UK

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Much of this increase had been driven by one site - Facebook - which accounts for 45% of all mobile web use in the UK, followed by Google at 8%.” “The number of people using their phone to surf the web currently stands at 13.5m This has almost tripled since 2008, when the figure stood at 5.7m.”

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Cases in custom content development: tentative suggestion 2 - never regard a job as finished

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The development of the Google search engine, Facebook or iTunes are not projects, they are never-ending quests for perfection. Once you've shifted this mindset, course maintenance ceases to be an annoying waste of resources and manifests itself instead as an exciting process of continuous improvement.

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A first look at Sakai 3

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" The VLE can appear anywhere through gadgets and applications appearing in other software environments (iGoogle, Facebook, etc.) Let me quote you from the Sakai 3 whitepaper: "In summary, our ambition is not merely an incremental improvement of Sakai nor is it to copy Google. and on different devices such as smart phones.