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The changing Web

Learning with e's

This is number 4 in the series of blog posts entitled 'Shaping Education for the Future.' Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. More on this in future posts on this blog.

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Tags, Search Effectiveness, Personal Benefits

Tony Karrer

If I have the time to go exploring through multiple links and see the interrelations between key words, I might go to del.icio.us. However, if I want to set up a way to store and share links on a particular topic, I will use del.icio.us I completely agree with Bill's assessment, del.icio.us

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

A Social Web that supports learning Staff at the University of Plymouth have been using Web 2.0 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).

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Social Bookmarking: Your Favorites Really Want to be Free

Mike Taylor

Social bookmarking can solve all of those problems and bring you additional benefits you probably haven’t even thought of. Your first question may be, “What the heck is social bookmarking?”. TLDR: If you’re short on time grab this quick start guide to social bookmarking. What is Social Bookmarking?

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EDEN saw play.

Learning with e's

Tom Wambeke's (KATHO, Belgium) session entitled 'Educational Blogging: in search of a general taxonomy', concluded that folksonomies were less hierarchical and more appropriate measures of blogs. Deborah Everhart (Georgetown University, USA) followed, with a session on social bookmarking, using Blackboard MLE tools.

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