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TCC09: Evaluating Social Networking Tools for Distance Learning

Experiencing eLearning

Summary: “Debates rage about the appropriateness of using social networking in teaching, with arguments ranging from waste of time and distraction from academic goals to needed to reach net generation student. An example of using a social networking tool, Ning, in an online class is reported.&#. Three main points.

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Why I left Linkedin

Saffron Interactive

A couple of months back I made the decision to delete my LinkedIn profile, a decision greeted with incredulity from all quarters. 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. You idiot!”

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Why I left Linkedin

Saffron Interactive

A couple of months back I made the decision to delete my LinkedIn profile, a decision greeted with incredulity from all quarters. 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. You idiot!”

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Smaller Niches in Social Networking Support Micro-Learnings

Vignettes Learning

Ross Mayfield pointed out that " Widgets and ( Web Widget )are the battering rams that will fracture the sand castles of large social networks." A photo with a story attached can be more compelling to some than millions of MySpace pages plagued by bad design. A Flickr widget brings people together around an object.

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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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MyFace or SpaceBook?

Learning with e's

Apparently your choice of social networking site indicates what social class you belong to. I guess the fact that FaceBook organises its regional networks on the basis of the colleges or universities its members attended might have something to do with it.? Well, fancy that. Well, fancy that. What do you think?

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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. Social media is one of the most versatile, and very personal technologies available to teachers. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched. Unported License.