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Twitter ye not

Learning with e's

This time yesterday I searched Twitter Groups to see if anyone had created an Edublog group I could join. I have made more than 20 new friends on Twitter in the past 24 hours, and the group membership already stands at over 50 members, some of them well established and respected edubloggers. He writes: Twitter groups are not necessary.

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eLearning Topics

Tony Karrer

When you look at the keywords on the left you see things like: Social Learning (356) Social Media (411) Twitter (725) Google Wave (22) Camtasia (76) Adobe Captivate (71) Social Network (460) Now, the content set in this case are highly skewed towards innovators as compared to the topic sets being used by my past analysis (training conferences).

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The changing Web

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Delicious, Diigo), microblogs such as Twitter, mashups (e.g. has spawned concepts such as folksonomy, ‘Darwikianism’ and the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ (Kamel Boulos et al, 2006). geotagging).

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

digital media FaceBook higher education learning social web Technology The future Twitter universities Web 2.0 Finally, we cannot afford to ignore the growing influence of mobile phones and apps as a disruptive force and the capability they have of enabling any time, any place learning. Unported License. wiki YouTube'

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LearnTrends Live: Harold Jarche on PKM

Jay Cross

Weekly overview of interesting stuff found on Twitter: tagged as Friday Favorites and posted weekly. “Categories&# are your personal folksonomy. Harold asked himself, “What is it I actually do?&#. “Sorting&# means filtering one’s sources. “Making explicit&# is tagging and pigeon-holing.

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Many encounters

Learning with e's

I bumped into several Twitter buddies face to face for the first time, including Karyn Romeis and Phil Green, and others I had met before including Barry Sampson and Jane Hart. Made it across to Olympia 2 with Jay with the good offices of a friendly taxi driver, and met up with Donald H Taylor and his team.

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The social impact of disruptive technology

Learning with e's

Today everybody talks about Facebook and Twitter. Twitter is less distracting, it is more streamlined and has a more appropriate range of features that makes it a better teaching tool than Facebook. What do they offer for learners? Facebook is very interesting as it attracts a wide variety of people from teenagers to older people.