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Reflections on Web 2.0 Expo

Clark Quinn

I also talked to Social Text, seeing if they supported user-generation of video (no). Also, I’d been pinged by the CEO of MangoSpring via the social software for the conference (which didn’t obviously give me a way of pinging back!?!?), Tags: social strategy technology.

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Social Learning, Collaboration, and Team Identity

Skilful Minds

Its focus was on the importance of social software applications in the Enterprise to the ability of distributed project team members to recognize who is on their team at any point in time, and who isn't. Recently, Mortensen continued researching the topic by studying 39 officially defined software and product development teams.

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Want People to Learn? Get Them to Collaborate

Mindflash

to describe the components involved: Search, Links, Authorship, Tags, Extensions, Signaling. ” All of this adds up to a new skill that learning experience designers need to develop: Identifying, championing, and implementing interventions that get people to gather, work together better, and solve problems together. .”

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

Learning with e's

The Social Web promotes collaboration Collaborative forms of learning are becoming increasingly popular methods of adult education, because they involve all students in the process of learning. The biggest problem they identified was a lack of time, and most agreed that the wiki activities actually made more work for them. Wheeler, S.

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DevLearn ‘09 Keynote: Andrew McAfee #dl09

Learning Visions

is the use of emergent social software platforms by organizations in pursuit of their goals.” Merck lab puts up the problem statement. Anyone from around the world can download that problem statement. you download a problem statement and then upload your solution. Merck looks at the problem.

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On my last leg

Learning with e's

I'm going to be speaking on transformational change in education, and will touch on social media, new teacher roles and a host of other related topics in my own keynote on Wednesday afternoon. It seems, from talking to teachers here in New Zealand, that their local education problems are just the same as anywhere else the world over.

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Hot tools, hot topics

Learning with e's

Presented by Guzman Mancho (Alcala University, Spain) the project highlighted problems with learning English through technology. Social software tools are overwhelming in number and scope, but applications are becoming friendlier and can be used to build communities. When we are using social software, who needs protection?

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