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Tools for conviviality? Illich and social media

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In so many ways, the social web mirrors Illich''s ideas for ''information exchanges'', and ''peer matching'' services, especially where facilitated through mobile, internet enabled personal devices. 10) Social media, especially those that enable users to create and share content, fall into the category of tools that are worked by us.

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Free Stock Photos Sites for e-Learning

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News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 10/24/2010 Free Stock Photos Sites for e-Learning As an e-Learning developer I had to invest a lot of time to find images for my e-Learning projects. Morgue File An easy to use free photo site.

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Schools and online education

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Photo by Sergey Zolkin on unsplash Many educators are now investigating how online technologies can improve, extend or enrich teaching and learning experiences. Unported License. We now need to think about learning environments rather than simply 'classrooms'. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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What has been and what is yet to come

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Photo by Guillaume Speurt on Flickr Tallinn is one of my favourite European cities. It was the birthplace of Skype , and Estonians believe that using the Internet is a human right. Unported License. Even in the bitter cold, Tallinn is quite simply a stunningly beautiful place to explore.

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Twitter and the death of distance

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Social media sites such as Twitter span huge distances to connect people around the world. There are many stories of people developing and sustaining friendship, or even romance and eventual marriage, after ''meeting'' on a social media site. Unported License. Unported License. The stories go on and on.

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All together now

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Shirky shows how, similar to hive and swarm behaviour seen in animals, humans perform in networks and thrive within '' architectures of participation '' - so whilst bees make hives, humans create mobile telephone networks and the internet. The human social repertoire includes many such optimisations, which social tools can amplify'' (p 188).

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Weapons of mass distraction

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Photo by Steve Wheeler Humans were once untethered, free to wander the world and explore at will. Then came telecommunications, telephones, computers and the internet to transform the ways we could communicate across great distances. Unported License. But such innovation also tethered people to specific geographical locations.