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New spaces, new pedagogies

Learning with e's

Students now have the capability to create and share their own content through blogs, wikis, video- and photo-sharing services such as YouTube and Flickr. They can easily connect into and maintain contact with multiple communities of interest, gaining access to experts using social networking tools such as Myspace and Facebook.

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with e's

By 2006 several social networking sites were enjoying surges in popularity, including MySpace, Bebo and of course, Facebook. Unported License. Unported License. Around the turn of the century we all began to be aware of a surge in the use of the Web for creating content. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched.

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Share trading

Learning with e's

The likes of Friendster, and later MySpace, Bebo and Faceboook (some would argue that the BBS users were the first), promoted the idea that you could connect with those you knew, and you could share your thoughts with them. The arrival of Creative Commons licensing made free sharing a more attractive proposition for everyone.

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Global digital tribe

Learning with e's

Membership of digital clans can be volatile, as has been demonstrated in the sharp rise and decline of once popular tribal online spaces such as Bebo or MySpace. Photo from Wikimedia Commons Global digital tribe by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Top Posts in 2007

Learning Visions

Instead, I cracked open Google Analytics and pulled up my top 5 posts for the year (well, my top posts since September 1 when I started using Google Analytics): The Real World, Second Life, and Facebook/MySpace : Over the summer, I conducted a series of interviews with over 20 current college students and recent graduates. All female.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Updating My Blog

Learning Visions

So I created a new banner in Photoshop -- took another apple photo and added some text. Although I was involved in the apple photo shoot as a prop dresser. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. Took about 20 minutes. Thanks, Michele!

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Real World, SecondLife and FaceBook/MySpace

Learning Visions

Tuesday, July 10, 2007 The Real World, SecondLife and FaceBook/MySpace Over the past few weeks Ive conducted about 17 interviews with current college students and recent graduates. A few people have "read" a few blogs -- written by friends with photos of children. A couple of people also had MySpace accounts. All women.

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