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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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Cyworld: Myspace, Flickr, Blogger, AIM, and SecondLife in ONE

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

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.

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Why I left Linkedin

Saffron Interactive

By “one”, Tom was referring to LinkedIn’s classification as a “social media” platform, lumped in with Facebook, Twitter, Yammer, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster and the rest. Will my boss get to see my drunken photos?”. he gasped, before exclaiming “ IT’S THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE! ”. Is my information safe with them?

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Why I left Linkedin

Saffron Interactive

By “one”, Tom was referring to LinkedIn’s classification as a “social media” platform, lumped in with Facebook, Twitter, Yammer, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster and the rest. Will my boss get to see my drunken photos?”. he gasped, before exclaiming “ IT’S THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE! ”. Is my information safe with them?

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Engaging the digital generation

Learning with e's

Facebook, Myspace) and video/photo sharing sites (e.g. Tags: MySpace YouTube digital tribes virtual clan social web Flickr cultural capital FaceBook digital identity. Below is the title and abstract of my keynote: Digital Tribes and the Social Web: How Web 2.0 An analysis of students’ uses of social networking tools (e.g.

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MyFace or SpaceBook?

Learning with e's

A recent US research project (by a PhD student mind you) has reported that users of FaceBook are generally toffs from wealthier homes and are more likely to study in further/higher education than that great unwashed working class lot who like using MySpace. I used to have a MySpace , but abandoned it because FaceBook was easier to use.

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TCC09: Evaluating Social Networking Tools for Distance Learning

Experiencing eLearning

Facebook & Myspace are most common in the US, but other parts of the world have regional favorites. ‘ www.flickr.com/photos/89272324@N00/2505571382. Leave persistent comments (not just IM). Personalize pages with widgets etc. Tools to collaborate. Focus in this paper on non-content social tools (not Flickr or YouTube).