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Tags, Search Effectiveness, Personal Benefits

Tony Karrer

A couple of interesting recent posts and my experience in my Collaborative Learning Class has me thinking about the usefulness of Tags both personally and in workgroups. But look on the right side to find "related tags" that are how you can find things that are related. I completely agree with Bill's assessment, del.icio.us

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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.' My own students create a lot of their own content during their study, usually in the form of podcasts, videos, wiki and blog content, and are encouraged to share these publicly online to gain additional feedback. The web is constantly changing.

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LearnTrends Live: Harold Jarche on PKM

Jay Cross

Books, blogs, bookmarks, tags, etc. Weekly overview of interesting stuff found on Twitter: tagged as Friday Favorites and posted weekly. “Categories&# are your personal folksonomy. “Making explicit&# is tagging and pigeon-holing. “Contributing&# is writing articles, sharing tips. .

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

The Social Web is comprised of software that enables people to both read from, and write onto web spaces. Wikis, blogs and podcasts : a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education. A Social Web that supports learning Staff at the University of Plymouth have been using Web 2.0 Maramba, I.

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More rogue.

Janet Clarey

She writes that while organizations are trying to figure out how to use social media in a formalized ( more on that later) way, the rogue employee just does it , “it&# being participating in mutually beneficial dialogue about the company with the general public. There is a third domain,” Dublin said. What’s your take?

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Twitter ye not

Learning with e's

It was very interesting to watch as people joined the group, shared their profiles and blogs, and then began to link to other like-minded people they didn't even know existed. He writes: Twitter groups are not necessary. We want folksonomy not heirarchy. That's the power of the social network. What do other people think?

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with e's

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. My initial interest in researching the social web stemmed from some early work my colleagues and I did around wikis and blogs in medical education in 2005-2006.