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Back stage front stage

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I asked the group how many of them had a Facebook account. Next we discussed how people represent themselves on Facebook through their profiles, pictures, games they play, groups they join, and people they 'friend' online. It's difficult to remove them once they are posted, and if they are tagged, it is easy to find them.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

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The problem with this is that students may not always be as accurate or fastidious in their content generation as they could be, and may need guidance on the pathway they choose to take. We quickly discovered that wikis are so open as to cause problems if some form of scaffolding or structure is not created for students.

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Tracking sentiments

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And so I arrived at my hotel, checked in to my room and then proceeded to tweet my problem to anyone on Twitter who cared to read it. The same applies when you mention something on Facebook, or simply let slip your date of birth, location or other personal information such as hobbies and interests. But it could be a lot worse.

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New wine in old bottles

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Facebookers for example, generally use their real names and images. Such shifting digital identities can be subtle, but with the result that researchers have a problem trying ascertain whether students are presenting themselves truthfully online. Another ethical problem arises when researchers 'eavesdrop' on Web 2.0

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Watch your back!

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This useful report from the BBC Click team reveals that although malware for mobile phones is on the increase, it is still simple user naivety that is responsible for the majority of problems of this kind. Watch your back by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

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Social software is based heavily on participation, and this is apparent in a number of features including social tagging , voting, versioning, hyperlinking and searching, as well as discussion and commenting. The biggest problem they identified was a lack of time, and most agreed that the wiki activities actually made more work for them.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Emerging Technologies in e-Learning

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I have a problem, where is the answer? Sometimes its not even consciously done -- they might put up photos and tag them -- dont mean to generate content for others, but they do) Wearable computing (being a cyborg and having implants is the stuff of sci fi -- but its not that far away) "We look at the future through rear-view mirrors."

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