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How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

Here’s how a typical LinkedIn network might look: Your weak ties are smaller circles, not at the center of a cluster I heard more support for the Weak Ties theory while attending a Knowledge Management conference in 2005. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Properly d.

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Summary of a Literture Review on The Effectiveness of Instructional Games by Robert Hays

Kapp Notes

In 2005, Robert T. It is an expansive look at the literature on the effectiveness of games for learning up until the year 2005. web-based instruction) must include all “instructor functions.” Squire (2005) conducted case studies of three companies that develop game-based learning products.

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Impact of Games on the Economy, the World and Schools

Kapp Notes

Here are some interesting facts about the video game industry in terms of the impact on society from The Entertainment Software Association web site. The report stated: From 2005 to 2010, the entertainment software industry’s revenue more than doubled.

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Understanding Web 2.0

Integrated Learnings

Do you know the reasoning behind why the world-wide web was created? As the web transformed over time people discovered that the ability to collaborate on projects over the web made it an even more powerful tool for sharing information. Wikipedia has a write up on Web 2.0 You may even want to check out the original web 2.0

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Experiencing eLearning

3 Web-Based Tools that Generate Awesome Tag Clouds. The article is from 2005 and has nothing earth shattering if you’ve been doing this a while, but it’s a solid introduction to how to use the tools effectively and blend synchronous learning with other forms. tags: visualization tagging tools.

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The Business Web

Tony Karrer

This is something I've pointed to before: Promise of Web 2.0 The Business Web. And The Business Web- with all of its innovation, creativity, and most important, customer success—won't wait for Microsoft. We have seen the consumer Web dominated by companies like eBay and Amazon. And, it's only starting.

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

Tony Karrer

This is an interesting piece that made me think about the new landscape created by Web 2.0 and Many have written about the definitions of online community (White 2005). What's really interesting to me is that I'm finding in a web 2.0 What's really interesting to me is that I'm finding in a web 2.0

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