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

Dashe & Thomson

For those of you that are unaware of TweetDeck, it is essentially a social media aggregator (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Buzz, Foursquare and MySpace) that can be used on almost any device (PC, iPhone, Android, iPad, Google Chrome, and more). If that doesn’t scream ‘revolution in learning’ then I should find something else to do. Properly d.

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with e's

By 2006 several social networking sites were enjoying surges in popularity, including MySpace, Bebo and of course, Facebook. Other tools such as wikis, blogs and podcasts also began to be used in education, at first tentatively, and then as embedded features in various programmes of study. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched.

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Web 2.0 Tools, Networks and Community (Individuals vs. Collective)

Tony Karrer

Traditional online community mechanisms (email lists, groups) are joined by a wide variety of publishing mechanisms (blogs, social bookmarking, wikis, flickr, etc.) And, I don't believe that this connection effect will stop with blogging. Workgroup and Enterprise Irregulars or open lists kept on Wikis.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Im Mrs. Dalloway

Learning Visions

The company you surround yourself with may be shallow, but their effects upon your reality are tremendously deep. by Virginia Woolf Your life seems utterly bland and normal to the casual observer, but inside you are churning with a million tensions and worries. Youre not crazy, youre just a little unwell.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: e-Learning Guild Synchronous Learning Systems

Learning Visions

You can look to a wiki I have developed about Second Life and ProtoSphere to learn a little about how to use 3D synchronous tools. The wiki is open and free (thus the ads on the side). oops here is wiki [link] 2:55 PM Cammy Bean said. Read the report, view the data, buy their report! ) Cammy, Great summary of the presentation!

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Real World, SecondLife and FaceBook/MySpace

Learning Visions

Tuesday, July 10, 2007 The Real World, SecondLife and FaceBook/MySpace Over the past few weeks Ive conducted about 17 interviews with current college students and recent graduates. A couple of people also had MySpace accounts. MySpace is seen as being too "creepy". All women. This is a main way of staying connected to friends.

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Humannet at Cisco

Jay Cross

Yesterday I spent the day at Cisco talking with old friends and new about what Fast Company recently described as an “unprecedented forward-looking strategy to unleash what it’s calling a ‘ human network effect ’ both on and off the Cisco campus.” Despite the over-the-top hype , the new approach is very real.