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TCC08: Creating and Teaching a College-Level Undergraduate Course in Social Networking

Experiencing eLearning

Developed a course on social networking for business. Use online library databases to research social networking. Provided a bunch of stats on social networking usage–I’m not taking notes on all that). Many businesses consider time on social networking sites wasted, but not all.

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Social Networks

Clark Quinn

This week we looked at Social Networks. Here are some thoughts on this topic, especially thoughts around social networks for learning. Starting with Social Networking was a blessing and a curse. Social networks have a tendency to be a bit messy. How do we do this in the social network environment?

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Social Networking

Tony Karrer

Hasn't eBay had social networking features for a long time? all have a social networking aspect to them? The point is that its probably natural for lots of sites to have social networking type features and functions for visitors. how is this new? Granted they are being enhanced, but still. I sort of agree.

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What Millennials Want from Member Education

Association eLearning

I learned some basic html coding when I was just 11 years old because I constantly wanted to update the backgrounds on my NeoPets and MySpace profiles. If that wasn’t enough, the relatively new ability to share personal achievements with social networks have made “winning” that much sweeter for Millennials.

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Part 2: Using Facebook as a learning platform (videos)

eFront

Social networking sites have educational benefits: University of Minnesota researcher Christine Greenhow breaks down how her research has found that social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace can have an impact for learning and educational growth for high school students.

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

Tony Karrer

This forms a big network of people linked first through content and eventually directly (in person or via social networking). Nancy raises the question of the fact that traditional online communities were bounded by the tool and the new big network is not contained within the tool. Who are the people in my network?

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Cyworld: Myspace, Flickr, Blogger, AIM, and SecondLife in ONE

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

It looks like the future of Social networking is going to come from Korea in the form of a tool called Cyworld. article : "Cyworld, for example, is a social network owned by a subsidiary of SK Telecom, the country's largest wireless provider. O'Reilly has a long post referencing the Business2.0 Sounds almost too good to be true.

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