Cheers to NC State University Professor Tim Hoban who, in the face of contrarian administrators, is supporting his "Social Movements for Social Change" course via MySpace. Says Hoban: "N.C. State's distance education is primarily oriented toward what I would say is pushing information into students' brains and then trying to get them to prove that they've learned it," Hoban says.

KeepVid offered both (save as FLV and save as MP4) and a nice bookmarklet as well. I've not tried it, but it appears to work for Google Video, MySpace video and more.

MySpace is clearly behind in the corporate eLearning world. Twitter adoption is higher than I would have thought. When I take a look at Tool Use as reported by people in Education ... Some things that jumped out at me: Clearly Education is ahead of Corporate adoption, otherwise the numbers are fairly well aligned.... Obviously, many people who marked other were using tools that fit into the categories above. But we clearly missed an opportunity to ask about community tools like Ning.

To an American eye, the Cyworld service looks like a mixture of some of the hottest US properties: it's MySpace meets Flickr and Blogger and AIM and Second Life. Users have avatars that visit and can link to each other's "minihompy" - a miniature homepage that's actually a 3-D room containing a users' blog, photos, and virtual items for sale. Cyworld's digital garage sales include music, ringtones, clothes for your avatar and furnishings for your own minihompy. Cyworld has penetration rates that would make Rupert Murdoch, CEO of MySpace parent News Corp.

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In doing so, weve added some new features and cleared out the dead wood. Let us know what you think. Ryann Ellis , Editor The Virtual Gathering Experience By Debbe Kennedy Blogging, YouTube, virtual classrooms and meetings places, as well as platforms like Facebook, MySpace, and Xing have caught the attention of even the most resistant.

meets Knoweldge Sharing Spaces. I won’t go over well trodden ground on how Blogs, Wikis and Social Media sites like Facebook and Myspace are revolutionizing real-time interactive KM concepts.... The time between idea and actualization is tending towards zero. Case in point, at Virtual Worlds II in Christian Renaud’s Keynote introduction Ruben Steiger predicted that one of the key Social Networking sites (Facebook or Myspace) would go 3D in 2008.

One major objection that I hear academics repeat, when discussing the ‘new world’ of social media and/or social networks like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc, is “it’s a waste of time”. If it isn’t an objection to the ‘intrusive’ or ‘disruptive’ manner that students will use the technology when most academics are used to the student being [...

In doing so, weve added some new features and cleared out the dead wood. Let us know what you think. Ryann Ellis , Editor The Virtual Gathering Experience By Debbe Kennedy Blogging, YouTube, virtual classrooms and meetings places, as well as platforms like Facebook, MySpace, and Xing have caught the attention of even the most resistant.

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