Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on Technorati Share this on FriendFeed Post this to Posterous Ping this on Ping.fm. Whether you are a teacher at a grade school or  work at a Fortune 500 company we have all heard the stories of educators being removed or suspended for inappropriate posts  on their Facebook profile.  So, the question stands, can you take advantage of the educational opportunity provided by a social network like Facebook without running the risk of loosing your job?  Well, today I’m not going to make you wait for the answer. The answer simply is “yes.&# MORE >>

Technorati Tags: socialbookmarking , tag , Diigo , Delicious , Vicki+Davis , Brenda+Muench , Liz+Davis , Maggie+Tsai. Image citation. DEMOfall 07 Day One - Diigo. from b_d_solis’s photostream. number of educators have been trying out Diigo’s new features ( Vicki Davis and Brenda Muench , for example). There’s a lengthy discussion on a number of topics. One question came up earlier in the discussion that I want to explore a little deeper: if you’re introducing social bookmarking to complete beginniners, would Diigo or Delicious be a better choice?In Pros for Diigo. MORE >>

Each person on the team creates a Blogger blog account Each person registers their blog on Technorati. In my previous post, I examined Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective. That post focused primarily on how Social Bookmarking tools such as del.icio.us or Yahoo My Web can be used as part of Personal Learning. In this post, I want to focus on a specific scenario that involves Personal and Group Learning and how Web 2.0 tools apply to this need. Hopefully this scenario sounds familiar to many people. MORE >>

Technorati Tags: second+life , russia , education , tcc2008 Elena at Lively Learning posted some comments about Second Life for education in response to my liveblogging of the TCC Keynote Why do we need a Second Life? Her original post is in Russian; the Google translation gave me enough to get the gist of her post.). In response to my comment on her post, she asked this question: In your comment you’ve mentioned about last year’s introduction to second life - is possible to find it somewhere? would appreciate if you can give some information about it! MORE >>

technorati tags: communities of practice , CoP roles , CoP'sIn my role as blogmeister for LCB I've done a lot of reading in the communities of practice literature to gain a better understanding of how online communities work. What can be done to enhance the community? What causes high quality interaction or community disfunction and collapse. One model I've developed is around the roles and interactions members of a community have as participants in that community. thought I'd share my model with the LCB community for feedback and discussion. So what do you think?  Does this make sense?  MORE >>