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

Dashe & Thomson

Although Twitter has a relatively small user base (approximately 200 million users compared to Facebook’s 600 million), these are your early adopters, your super-users, your friends that seem to know a little about everything and your friends that know absolutely everybody. Twitter is a marketer’s dream.

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Tools Used

Clark Quinn

MySpace is clearly behind in the corporate eLearning world. Twitter adoption is higher than I would have thought. Some things that jumped out at me: Clearly Education is ahead of Corporate adoption, otherwise the numbers are fairly well aligned. Then to compare with adoption by people in Government.

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Blogging to Peak in 2007?

Tony Karrer

And, of course, there's stuff like MySpace which again may not technically count as blogging even though it's personal journaling and commenting. If there was a MySpace for teachers who could exchange issues and ideas, do you think they'd use it to any great degree. suggests that you've reached full adoption. social computing.

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Coalescing virtually

Moodle Journal

I have been working on plans to encourage students to adopt the idea of virtual learning communities for the coming academic year. But to be realistic there has to be some sense of virtual value! I naturally intend being part of all this as you can see here.

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Teens, Tweens and Social Networking

Kapp Notes

isn't it time your organizations adopted these tools.your kids are. __ Catalog of Recommended Books, Games and Gadgets Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content Guide Check out the full report for yourself: Creating & Connecting: Research and Guidelines on Online Social--And Educational--Networking.

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Turning the screws on Twitter

Learning with e's

She lists 7 key 'rules' she would like to see adopted for better practice Twitter use. In a post entitled 'Is Twitter becoming the new Myspace?' Another useful post which added to the debate comes courtesy of Sarah Horrigan who writes about what she terms 'Twetiquette'. Sarah complains about the potential misuse of Twitter.

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Multi-Generational Learning in the Workplace

Janet Clarey

Google, Google Scholar, and Wikipedia for homework, the school’s VLE/LMS, instant message, text, profile on a social networking service like Facebook or MySpace.). Technology Literacy and the MySpace Generation. Because I watch YouTube videos, have a Facebook, and text doesn’t mean I expect you to use those to train me at work).