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Social Network = Social Class?

Kapp Notes

Anna Owens says "MySpace has one population, Facebook has another." A study by market research firm Nielsen Claritas found that people in more affluent demographics are 25 percent more likely to be found friending on Facebook , while the less affluent are 37 percent more likely to connect on MySpace.

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

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange of Information by Paul on March 14, 2011 in social learning Most of us in the adult learning industry have already found and incorporated Twitter into our everyday lives.

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Change Our Traditional Approach to Education

Kapp Notes

While kids are growing up with cell phones, internet access, virtual worlds and a culture that rewards creating digital networks and online content, the basic instructional paradigm for teaching those students has not adapted to the explosive use of technology among the culture of third millennials.

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Second Life Take Over Rumors.

Kapp Notes

Here is an interesting rumor and a potentially large game-changer in the virtual world space. found after their acquisition of MySpace. Tags: Second Life 3D worlds. It is rumored at the web site metaverselyspeaking web site that News Corp might be taking over Second Life. Here is a quote from the article.

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

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

To an American eye, the Cyworld service looks like a mixture of some of the hottest US properties: it's MySpace meets Flickr and Blogger and AIM and Second Life. Users have avatars that visit and can link to each other's "minihompy" - a miniature homepage that's actually a 3-D room containing a users' blog, photos, and virtual items for sale.

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Engaging the digital generation

Learning with e's

Facebook, Myspace) and video/photo sharing sites (e.g. Significantly, the increasing role the World Wide Web plays in the shaping of modern tribal culture causes Weber’s notion to resonate. I will pose the questions: What will be the new roles of academics in a world where the boundaries between novice and expert are blurring?

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How Virtual Reality Became 2015’s Comeback Kid

eLearningMind

What this project really highlights, however, is the comeback story of 2015: The Resurgence of Virtual Reality. Enjoying its moment in the sun at the turn of the century, virtual reality has dipped out of popularity. Virtual Heyday. Virtual reality isn’t just for games anymore. Simulate This!