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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Using FaceBook

Learning Visions

Tuesday, June 19, 2007 Using FaceBook Im trying to expand my horizons a bit these days and have been taking a closer look at a whole bunch of tools out there, including SecondLife and FaceBook. FaceBook seems like such a student-world application, and yet folks say more and more "grown-ups" are using it. Have you looked at ning?

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

Social media connection tools provide a space for educators to connect with a global audience. In addition to the popular social media tools ( Facebook , Edmodo , Twitter ), there are also interest-based groups, including Ning and Google/Yahoo! Edmodo and Ning are gaining popularity with educators. Edmodo has over 6.5

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

Social media connection tools provide a space for educators to connect with a global audience. In addition to the popular social media tools ( Facebook , Edmodo , Twitter ), there are also interest-based groups, including Ning and Google/Yahoo! Edmodo and Ning are gaining popularity with educators. Edmodo has over 6.5

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Social Networks

Clark Quinn

I have been part of Ning groups before, but find it overwhelming, very quickly because there seems to be multiple inputs for information. Even as an organizer, when I get into the Ning group, I feel overwhelmed. I don't know about ning or even facebook. Social networks have a tendency to be a bit messy.

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4 Ways to Apply the Situated Learning Theory

Origin Learning

Therefore it is important to indulge them in role-playing situations that will engage the learners in complex, realistic, problem-centered activities and provide support in acquiring the desired knowledge. Knowledge is acquired contextually and is transferred only to similar situations.

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Real Community?

Clark Quinn

At the same time, Marcia Conner was asking for examples of how someone’s Twitter/Facebook (T/FB) comments have changed your opinion of them. Blogs tend to be more formal (tends, mind you), while Twitter and Facebook cross the boundary into informal. His claim about schools is that they’re dehumanizing (deliberately).

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Reflections on Twitter and social networking

Clark Quinn

However, much like the Facebook opportunity, it’s a way to follow people who could be serving as mentors (even if they don’t know it!). That’s cool, as it provides more ways for interaction. And Ning’s quite interesting too. Many of the people to track are sharing their interesting discoveries.Â