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Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange.

Dashe & Thomson

For those of you that use web-based aggregators like Google Reader but have not yet made room for Tweets, Twitter is an aggregator on steroids. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? In my last blog post I wrote about leveraging the Law of the Few to manage change in the workplace. Properly d.

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Teens, Tweens and Social Networking

Kapp Notes

Chart shows percentage of teens and tweens and what social networking/Web 2.0 Eighty-one percent say they have visited a social networking Web site within the past three months and 71 percent say they use social networking tools at least weekly. activities they do weekly online. Students are hardly passive couch potatoes online.

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Blogging to Peak in 2007?

Tony Karrer

And, of course, there's stuff like MySpace which again may not technically count as blogging even though it's personal journaling and commenting. If there was a MySpace for teachers who could exchange issues and ideas, do you think they'd use it to any great degree. suggests that you've reached full adoption. social computing.

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The future of eLearning, part 2

eFront

Social networking is not some new category of computer use that Facebook (or Friendster/MySpace/Twitter/etc) invented. Still, for it to really catch on it needed the capabilities of the modern web (circa 2005) and a good enough implementation. Another major issue to the adoption of VR for eLearning will be the lack of content.

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The future of eLearning, part 2

eFront

Social networking is not some new category of computer use that Facebook (or Friendster/MySpace/Twitter/etc) invented. Still, for it to really catch on it needed the capabilities of the modern web (circa 2005) and a good enough implementation. Another major issue to the adoption of VR for eLearning will be the lack of content.

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Turning the screws on Twitter

Learning with e's

Whilst it is gratifying to see that people are taking a keen interest in the idea of microblogging, social networks and general use of the Web for teaching and learning, I can't help but feel a little uneasy. She lists 7 key 'rules' she would like to see adopted for better practice Twitter use.

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Multi-Generational Learning in the Workplace

Janet Clarey

Google, Google Scholar, and Wikipedia for homework, the school’s VLE/LMS, instant message, text, profile on a social networking service like Facebook or MySpace.). Growing Up Digital: How the Web Changes Work, Education, and the Ways People Learn. Technology Literacy and the MySpace Generation. Bonwell C.C & Eison, J.A.,