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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Half of Companies Blocking Facebook

Learning Visions

Wednesday, August 22, 2007 Half of Companies Blocking Facebook Christy Tucker has been musing on Social Networking as LMS: Problems and Opportunities. One real problem is corporate fear of social networking tools. Im no Facebook super-user and I havent experienced a huge time suck from it, but I suppose its possible.

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Connected pedagogy: Social networks

Learning with e's

Global social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter support various forms of communication and sharing actions that were previously unavailable. Many writers have highlighted the power of the global digital tribe , particularly the way groups tend to solve problems more effectively than individual experts (Surowiecki, 2009).

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Students of tomorrow, from yesterday

Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

Thinking Creatively was about a piece I’d read from Anthony Chivetta, written in 2008. My generation will be required to learn information quickly, use that information to solve new and novel problems, and then present those solutions in creative and effective ways. ” Anthony Chivetta.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

social web) tools in teacher education for the last two years and have attempted to qualify their use in a number of areas of learner support including shared online spaces (Wheeler et al, 2008) and blogs (Wheeler and Lambert-Heggs, 2008). A Social Web that supports learning Staff at the University of Plymouth have been using Web 2.0

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Conversations

Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

At the moment I’m celebrating some, online, 10 th anniversaries – in October 2008 I started blogging , I joined LinkedIn in November 2008 and I joined Twitter in January 2009. Being connected through Twitter or Facebook or other networks has obviously had an affect on us, we are all more informed (?)

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Technology Tips: Make Your Droid Battery Last Longer

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

By turning Auto Sync off, your weather, Gmail and Facebook applications will not be automatically updated. For me this is not a problem and is worth the extra battery life I gain by leaving it off. If you would like to continue having these applications automatically updated, you should leave this on. " Tags: Technology.

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TCC08: What can Educators Learn from Online Religious Communities?

Experiencing eLearning

This is another liveblogged post from the TCC 2008 conference. Technical problems. She had not used a chat room, IM, Facebook, or MySpace before joining a site called OurPrayer.org. Presented by Scot Headley, Amy Dee, Sue Phillips, Tricia Meyer, Jeanette Eggert. Doctoral students at George Fox University. 50-60% involvement.

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