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Very social software

Learning with e's

A veritable feast of articles on social media is appearing in the academic press at the moment. Two articles that have caught my eye deal with social software in education, and both have landed on my desk in the last few weeks. Social Software: new opportunities for challenging social inequalities in learning?

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Exploring medical technologies

Learning with e's

I was involved for example in documenting the early trials of laser surgery, Lithotripsy and Transurethral resection of prostate surgery, ultrasonic surgical aspirators and initial research into skin cloning (tissue culture) for burns victims in UK hospitals. The rest, as they say, is history.

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2010 in Retrospect: Top Few Blogs and Books

ID Reflections

Why we need to kill "social media" by Rob Key 7. Generations, Social and Enterprise: adopt vs adapt by Martijn Linssen 9. The Evolving Social Organization by Harold Jarche 10. and Social Software should be opt-in by Gautam Ghosh 22. How to Build a Social Learning Culture by Lars Hyland 24.

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The changing Web

Learning with e's

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. Social software is software that enables people to both read from, and write onto web spaces. The web is constantly changing.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): "Using Open Source Social Software as Digital Library Interface" (D-Lib Magazine)

Mark Oehlert

" March 26, 2008 in Application Becomes the Platform | Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference "Using Open Source Social Software as Digital Library Interface" (D-Lib Magazine) : Comments The comments to this entry are closed. From the land of Huh?

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100 eLearning Articles and White Papers

Tony Karrer

1) " EduTech gEEks.We're a new brEEd Still new on campus, social software tools can support students and staff beyond the classroom, reaching around the world for learning and communication 17. We Learning, Part II Second part of an interesting article - We Learning: Social Software and E-Learning, Part II.

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Breaking eggs

Learning with e's

My chapter appears in an edited volume by Stylianos Hatzipanagos and Steven Warburton on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies. It is a solid reference manual for best practice of social software tools in teaching and learning. Image source Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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