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Daily Bookmarks 06/25/2008

Experiencing eLearning

Brief summary of research on the educational benefits of sites like MySpace and Facebook for high schoolers. Social networks ‘teaching tech skills’ - vnunet.com. Students self-report learning 21st century skills, although the study doesn’t attempt to actually measure any of that learning.

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Daily Bookmarks 09/29/2008

Experiencing eLearning

Haven’t you see MySpace, facebook and blogs. Annoyingly, just as complaints about literacy multiply, along comes a technology that has promoted a renaissance in reading and writing, yet it is treated with contempt by the ‘pen and paper’ brigade. Children don’t keep diaries any more – oh yeah! They’re obsessed by diary keeping.

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Daily Bookmarks 10/06/2008

Experiencing eLearning

I should add to this slide MySpace profiles and things like that, your account on Flickr. It wouldn’t be a network without diversity. Internet technology that encourages diversity rather than conformity includes things like personal home pages or these days, blogs.

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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. Used MySpace & a wiki. Chose MySpace b/c lots of existing religious tools available (e.g., Also explored specifically Christian sites, but secular sites like MySpace may offer better options. Doctoral students at George Fox University. Sue Phillips.

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TCC08: Creating and Teaching a College-Level Undergraduate Course in Social Networking

Experiencing eLearning

This is another liveblogged post from the TCC 2008 conference, presented by Robert Fulkerth, Ageno School of Business, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA. Right now, this is “Tier 1″ Proprietary with some customization (like Facebook & MySpace). Developed a course on social networking for business. Second Life.

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Social Media Marketing: Putting The Pieces Together

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

I had a MySpace back when you could only have eight top friends. About the author: AJ George, a cum laude graduate of Towson University, is IconLogic's lead Technical Writer and author of the book " PowerPoint 2007: The Essentials " and the just-released "PowerPoint 2008 for the Macintosh: The Essentials."

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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. I then began also to experiment with wikis as alternatives to Learning Management Systems in teacher education around 2006-2008. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched.