Learning with e's

JUNE 24, 2012

The advent of the social web has given people everywhere a virtually limitless new territory to discover and explore. My view is that in the social media universe, blogging is potentially the most powerful tool. One of the most powerful aspects of blogging is its social dimension which includes open discussion. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Matthew 5:13 (New Testament) The Delicious social bookmarking site used to be one of my favourite social media tools. The tagging facility was second to none, and it was easy to see who else was interested in the same links as you, and then discover what other links they had bookmarked that might have passed you by.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Social tagging for example, is becomes increasingly stronger as people populate it with content and links. environments might is social constructivism , because learners increasingly rely on social interaction, and appropriate tools to mediate dialogue. If there is a Web 1.0 and a Web 2.0, Unported License.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Learning how to use Twitter as a tool to develop your personal learning network is not always simple, and as with any other social networking tools, there is an unwritten protocol. Other devices for communication emerged such as emoticons, sideways smileys that were used to attempt to overcome the reduced social cues of text only talking.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 15, 2012

I was challenged by delegates at Solstice to elaborate on the legal and ethical issues of Creative Commons and other Copyleft approaches. Creative Commons, I explained, is a means of circumventing Internet Copyright constraints. Unported License. Based on a work at steve-wheeler.blogspot.com.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 16, 2012

We are witnessing a time where a mobile world wide web of connections is proliferating, and in which social mores, human relationships and communication conventions have been irrevocably changed. Six Degrees of Separation is a useful book because it illuminates the science behind our daily use of Facebook, Twitter and other social media.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 5, 2015

The entire social web is founded on freely shared content. Prior to the social web, public sharing wasn''t that common a theme. Sharing content for free was amplified into popularity by the advent of the social networks. Tagging made it even more personal. You don''t get something for nothing.

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Learning with e's

JULY 12, 2018

Very soon thereafter, social networks and then social media began to arrive. The companies that survived this period, such as eBay, Google and Amazon, quickly adapted to this idea, with new marketing strategies that leveraged new tools such as social filtering, recommender systems and tagging. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 24, 2012

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. Almost everyone, it seems, is using some element of social media in the planning, development, delivery, management or evaluation of teaching and learning.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

social media can, and are being used to enhance, extend and enrich learning in higher education. It's dedicated to the question of how universities are integrating social media into academic practice, with the aim to foster eLearning 2.0 - where the student is placed at the centre of a more social, personal and flexible learning process.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Below is the title and abstract of my keynote: Combining Mobile Tools and Social Media: A Marriage Made in Heaven? Tools such as blogs, wikis, podcasts and social networking sites are flourishing, and boasting huge numbers of adherents. by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

or the ‘social web’. and provide some examples of current pedagogical practice using the Social Web. Debate centres upon whether the emerging social applications constitute a sea change or revolution in the Web (cf. Essentially, the Web has become more social. As with most other technology innovations, Web 2.0

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 15, 2015

For the many people who have participated to date, it has been an exercise in creative thinking, and an experience of extending social connections within their personal learning networks. They then posted their contribution along with another image, and challenged a few more people within their social network.

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Learning with e's

JULY 22, 2010

Here's the abstract for my keynote: New Spaces, New Pedagogies: Harnessing the Power of Social Media in Education A rapid emergence of social media – the so called ‘Web 2.0’ – has opened up new opportunities for participatory learning in all sectors of education. Unported License. Based on a work at steve-wheeler.blogspot.com.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 5, 2010

We learn by doing, and we more actively engage with learning when we create artefacts that can be shared within social contexts such as communities of practice. Without organisation and tagging (the use of key descriptive words) such content is not searchable. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Another concern is about age - some argue that Twitter is more the preserve of older people and that younger people tend to spurn the tool because it doesn't have the attractive affordances of other social networking tools such as Facebook. Teaching and Learning with Twitter View more presentations from Steve Wheeler. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 19, 2011

Social tagging sites such as Diigo and Delicious can offer this kind of filing cabinet organisation, but so too can wikis and other collaborative tools, which would I imagine, raise the level of engagement and profiling of individuals who organised and shared their content in this manner. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

from passive to active, from individual to social and from consumer to producer. There are many tools available today that learners can use to harness the power of web based content, including aggregation, curation and tagging tools, all of which can simplify complexity and allow learners to gain a purchase on chaos. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 23, 2010

And that is where the social media come in. Increasingly academics are making their ideas freely available on blogs, social networks and other sharing sites. Another threat is Creative Commons which has an entire range of licencing agreements which variously enable users to modify, extend and share versions of the original work.

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Learning with e's

MAY 23, 2011

I was discussing one of my favourite theories with the group - Erving Goffman's Drama model of social interaction. I was applying Goffman's theory to online spaces such as social networks. It's difficult to remove them once they are posted, and if they are tagged, it is easy to find them. Of course, as I expected, everyone did.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

In effect, through the use of social media and telecommunication technologies, these teachers are becoming global educators. The comments boxes below each post support dialogue, and the tagging feature on most blogs enables easier search for content. Over 24 hours of video footage is uploaded to the YouTube servers every minute.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 21, 2009

For those of us who are still getting our heads around the concept of 'C reative Commons ' and the idea of 'free culture' on the Web, an interesting and illuminating video entitled ' Reticulum Rex ' comes highly recommended. Watch the video if you want to get to grips with Creative Commons.

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Mindflash

JUNE 20, 2012

While there’s a lot of overlap between “social learning” and these enterprise 2.0 collaborative tools, they actually have different goals: Social learning is about interacting with other people in order to learn something new, while Web collaboration tools are primarily about making it easier for people to work together.

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Learning with e's

MAY 29, 2013

Whether or not we realise it, if we regularly use social media, we are members of the world wide digital tribe. Social media, the most social of all modern technologies, provided us with shared virtual spaces where we could ''meet''. Facebook is currently the largest of the digital totems in the social media universe.

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Learning with e's

JULY 20, 2011

Many are using tools such as Delicious.com or Diigo.com to tag, store and share their favourite content. is a very useful and attractive curation tool, enabling summaries and snapshots of related content from blogs, media sharing sites and other social media to be displayed, usually in two columns. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 27, 2010

It is now so much easier to create, edit, and share images over social media. The social web is an instantaneous, rich and fertile environment for sharing memories, capturing moments in time and preserving them for ever. - in such an emphatic and meaningful manner. Photography is now more or less instant. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

There are 7 papers in the issue, each of which focus on social media that are being used to support and enhance learning in higher education. Two papers reporting on research into the implementation of personal learning environments using social media provide a little controversy for the special issue. University'. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 6, 2010

photosharing sites is that they constitute their own specialist social networks - and these are organised around an appreciation of great photography, and an interest in talking about images. I have seen some very interesting uses including one where a biology teacher used the tagging facility on Flickr to teach human anatomy.

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Learning with e's

JULY 23, 2010

Creating, organising and sharing content within a defined community of interest is the way forward, and all of these are achievable through social media. New York: Pfeiffer & Company Blurring the boundaries by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Every learner has one.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Moreover, the higher the number of people unemployed, the more drain there will be on the economic and social resources of the state. It is politically expedient and it is also socially and economically desirable to seek to improve the state funded education provision. The answer is, we can't. and we shouldn't. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 24, 2010

Stewart Milton from Blue Orange Consulting gave an excellent, wideranging session on how to reach students through social media, which also covered the use of mobile handheld technologies. Up Pompey (again) by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 12, 2011

As they gain more knowledge of their subject, broaden their personal learning networks and gain access to more content, so they modify their PLE to accommodate all the necessary storage, tagging and co-creation of content that ensues. So the question is problematic on at least two levels. Today you are You, that is truer than true.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

And so, after some initial discussion, we decided on the name #EDENchat (we needed a short, unique hash tag and it does what it says on the can), and began to plan our first series of Twitter chats. Every chat is archived using the social media tool Storify , so that anyone can revisit the discussion at any time on the EDEN website here.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

One of the digital literacies I identified in yesterday's blogpost was effective social networking. What else do we need to learn about social networking that can help us or our students to learn better? So what are the essential compontents of social networking as a digital literacy? So what's the big deal about this?

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Tony Karrer

JULY 20, 2009

When you look at the keywords on the left you see things like: Social Learning (356) Social Media (411) Twitter (725) Google Wave (22) Camtasia (76) Adobe Captivate (71) Social Network (460) Now, the content set in this case are highly skewed towards innovators as compared to the topic sets being used by my past analysis (training conferences).

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Learning with e's

JULY 24, 2010

Some are turning their back completely on the hard nosed, monetizing operation that is global publishing, and are instead using free tools such as blogs and other social media services to publish their work. Image source What if they threw a party by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 30, 2010

My writing has become a social act. Image source The truth about blogging by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Tags: blog education Shelly Blake-Plock critical reflection. In effect, as I write, I create concrete meaning from my abstract thoughts. Unported License.

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