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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. As a student we learn how to ignore the chatter.

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Social Networking

Tony Karrer

I've run across a couple of interesting posts recently that seem to have spawned from a Business Week article - Scaling the Social Web. Hasn't eBay had social networking features for a long time? And doesn't Flickr (images), del.icio.us (bookmarks), etc. all have a social networking aspect to them?

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

RSS (really simple syndication) readers and social bookmarking are two popular information aggregation tools. Social bookmarking tools (i.e., Social media connection tools provide a space for educators to connect with a global audience. Ning is a fully functional social networking site. Classroom 2.0

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

RSS (really simple syndication) readers and social bookmarking are two popular information aggregation tools. Social bookmarking tools (i.e., Social media connection tools provide a space for educators to connect with a global audience. Ning is a fully functional social networking site. Classroom 2.0

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Top 100 Tools For Learning 2010 – C4LPT Survey

Upside Learning

A quick look at the top 10: Twitter – micro-updating tool. Delicious – social bookmarking tool. Facebook – social networking site. YouTube – video hosting and sharing tool. GoogleDocs – online collaboration tool. Slideshare – presentation hosting and sharing tool. Google Reader – RSS feed reader.

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The 10 basic online tools every trainer and online facilitator should know

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Twitter - microblogging Twitter is good for networking with colleagues, use and follow hashtags like #lrnchat. But Twitter is also very useful in a learning trajectory - search and follow your participants who are on Twitter. So no facilitator should not be able to manipulate Twitter!

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Social Media and Social Learning – Where R We now?

eLearning 24-7

And, let us clear up another point: social learning is not just social networking. I hate when people see it as only Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin. For fun, they toss in YouTube and say – look we know what social learning is for the masses. Here is the latest data on social media (as of Oct.