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Edupunk stalks the institution.

Learning with e's

The adoption of free social software tools has raised questions over corporate branding, security and privacy issues, and legal requirements. Tags: student learning e-learning JISC Edupunk social software UCISA. The opportunities include: * Enhanced and enriched student learner experience * Email account with an ac.uk

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Windmills on the mind

Learning with e's

Someone remarked that there are complex and comprehensive privacy and copyright rules in the user agreements in most social networking systems, but no-one ever reads them. Tags: Bazaar open education resources digital identity cross operability. Copyright is an issue, and not many people understand the notion of creative commons.

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Web 2.0 Applications in Learning

Tony Karrer

Ranking, tagging, top stories Tags link back to the tagger's BluePages profile IBM owns more than 50 islands in Second Life. Privacy / Confidentiality - Limit the visibility. 20,000 wikis with more than 100,000 users. No anonymous users. Orientations, classes, and meetings are often held in Second Life. is discoverable.

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