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Part 2: Using Facebook as a learning platform (videos)

eFront

For those who missed last week’s post “ Part 1: Using Facebook as a learning platform ” we shared some important links for instructors interested in using Facebook with students. This week I would like to share my favorite YouTube videos on the subject! eLearning Learning Social Media Facebook'

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Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange.

Dashe & Thomson

Where Facebook and LinkedIn serve mainly as social dashboards for our personal and professional networks, respectively, I see Twitter as a customized information portal. Tweet – Tweets are almost identical to Status Updates in Facebook, except Twitter users are even less interested to hear about the tuna fish sandwich you just ate for lunch.

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MOOC Major Players

LearnDash

It’s still too early to tell which one of these will fall the way of MySpace, but as Facebook has pointed out, there is often very little room at the top. Today, it has since evolved and now hosts more than 3,000 (with backing from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) videos on YouTube.

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The (Eventual) Downfall of MOOCs

LearnDash

If massive sites like Facebook or YouTube have taught us anything over the years, it is that at some point investors will demand a return on their investment. Remember the good old days when YouTube didn’t require you to watch a commercial, bombard you with ads, and was just plain fun to visit? The same can be said for Facebook.

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Twitter Digest for 2011-05-09

Jane Hart

42 Fresh Facts About Twitter & Facebook… | Bit Rebels [link] via @ bitrebels #. 50 Awesome YouTube Facts and Figures » Jeffbullas's Blog # Facebook #How To # MySpace #Sa [.] Five Best Apps to Send Group Text Messages on the Cheap [link] #. Challenging the status quo from @ hjarche [link] #.

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

Experiencing eLearning

Now YouTube and multimedia are important. Right now, this is “Tier 1″ Proprietary with some customization (like Facebook & MySpace). YouTube–lots of educational resources. Using the tools to teach the content–mostly avoiding the LMS. Use online library databases to research social networking.

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All This Talk About Reading

Learning Rebels

These were the days before the interwebs, before twitter, YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook. Now that we are in the age of twitter, Facebook and YouTube, it’s easy to fall into the trap of sound bites and headlines. I had to go to the library or Barnes and Noble to find information.

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