RWW Network. In Part 2 he will profile Elgg , social network software for education, and interview its founders. Teachers are starting to explore the potential of blogs, media-sharing services and other social software - which, although not designed specifically for e-learning, can be used to empower students and create exciting new learning opportunities. But by using these new web services, e-learning has the potential to become far more personal, social and flexible.". DOPA and Social Networks. social networking. social media. MORE >>

I was playing with words, but a message emerged from it - we can connect with others from all over the world using social media, and if you build it, they will come. I'm very pleased to have been invited, because although I am not a geographer, geography was always one of my favourite topics in school, and is a social science to which I have great affinity. 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. See what I mean? MORE >>

tools such as blogs, wikis, social networking sites, and options for tagging, people today are able to connect with each other easily through the web. This, in turn, leads to immense cross-linking: If Facebook and MySpace were thought of as digital nations, they would already be the fifth and sixth largest countries in the world. I was unable to physically attend OEB this year, but was still able to conduct my workshop there thanks to the help of Robin Tiegland and Second Life. Thanks to Web 2.0 Does a similar potential lie in avatars? Learning to Change. MORE >>

First and foremost Steven made the point that your approach as an educator should not be “OK let me figure out what blogs, wikis, social tagging, You Tube, Second Life and Moodle mean for my learning strategy or my learners.&# You then want to take all these different piece parts together into a single place that is just for you (Hello MySpace… oh that is so yesterday why not build it out in 3D in Secondlife)…and suddenly you start to understand that we have finally tipped on a number of fronts: Web services meets Web 2.0 Learning Matters! April 13, 2007. MORE >>

Tim’s Blog social media, youth participation, e-democracy & social change Search on Tim’s Blog: Homepage About Hire me Subscribe to RSS April 22, 2009 OpenGov: One big challenge? Or a thousand small hurdles Author: Tim - Categories: E-Democracy - Tags: digitalengagement , opengov , smallchallenges What’s the big challenge to using new technology for mobilisation / communication around social issues, where government or large existing organisations are to be players in creating change? Sites from another part of the office, or another desk; Web 2.0 MORE >>