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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with e's

My initial interest in researching the social web stemmed from some early work my colleagues and I did around wikis and blogs in medical education in 2005-2006. Unported License. They are vital components of the web, and social media are important for education - because learning is essentially social and personal.

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 6/20/2005

Big Dog, Little Dog

Why RSS and Folksonomies Are Becoming So Big. Google is all about individuals fulfilling or exceeding their potential, and employees are given significant license to foster this, while Yahoo has morphed into a more mature company with tough management discipline. An RSS feed is a blog distilled to its core essence. It's pure data.