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Right now, this is “Tier 1″ Proprietary with some customization (like Facebook & MySpace). YouTube–lots of educational resources. Social networking is driven by the desire of people to “demonstrate themselves&#. Predicts a tiered structure will develop. Owned by major companies. Google Sites for the wiki.
I learned some basic html coding when I was just 11 years old because I constantly wanted to update the backgrounds on my NeoPets and MySpace profiles. If a Millennial member has to pause in frustration because the resource they’re trying to find isn’t in a logical location or is buried deep within your portal, you risk losing the learner.
I somewhat understand why MySpace might get blocked (28%) but given how many people are using Facebook for business connections, blocking it at almost the same rate is a little bit of a surprise. It's such an amazing resource to find expertise and get answers. Of course, factor in that 2.6% tell us that Wikipedia is blocked.
I had a MySpace back when you could only have eight top friends. The angles I had not even considered, the tips I had no clue about, the resources I'd never even heard of were staggering. by AJ George. I've been a devoted Facebook member since the first year it made its way out of Harvard and into most college campuses.
Would you call posting notes about assignments, pointers to resources by an elementary teacher to be blogging? Further, teachers will be able to share resources and lesson plans - which is something my mother (a second grade teacher for 30+ years) would have done. Dramatically! The form of it may or may not be a blog.
They can easily connect into and maintain contact with multiple communities of interest, gaining access to experts using social networking tools such as Myspace and Facebook. They can organise their own resources through free and easy to use tagging and social filtering tools. Unported License. wikis privacy digital identity.
Sites such as CEOP's Think You Know have become useful resources to raise children's awareness of the dangers of using social networking tools such as Bebo and Myspace. Tags: MySpace CEOP Mebo Internet safety cyberbullying learning Bebo e-safety. Many thanks to all those who voted and made comments!
The resources that were provided on this are great: The Facebook Classroom: 25 Education Apps Facebook as a Learning Platform Ning in Education Some learning professionals weigh in on how they're using social network. Here in Brazil, people are more familiar with Orkut or Myspace. Another question / comment.
There's an internal version of MySpace, which provides not only title and contact info but also personal profiles, job histories, interests, and videos. Great way to find expertise and resources. Soon it will show whether a person is reachable by, say, office phone, cell, IM, or telepresence, and offer a one-click connection.
George Siemens agrees with my assessment about the need for platforms or aggregation, but tells us in Scaling the Social Web that as for the large social networking sites, he's: tried them all (facebook, myspace, bebo, orkut, linkedin, twitter, etc.) and then resume the more ad hoc mixture of blogs I've been using for many years.
Instead, I cracked open Google Analytics and pulled up my top 5 posts for the year (well, my top posts since September 1 when I started using Google Analytics): The Real World, Second Life, and Facebook/MySpace : Over the summer, I conducted a series of interviews with over 20 current college students and recent graduates. All female.
They can easily connect into and maintain contact with multiple communities of interest, gaining access to experts using social networking tools such as Myspace and Facebook. They can organise their own resources through free and easy to use tagging and social filtering tools.
See the intense comment thread on The Real World, Second Life and Facebook/MySpace where Cathy provides some interesting commentary on women in Second Life. Dump the Drone is part of my Instructional Design Resources list found on the Learning Visions sidebar. And shes been a great contributer here at Learning Visions.
I have been pointed in the direction of so many wonderful resources, heard wonderful comments and insights on so many subjects. (The best use of FB that Ive seen so far!) I have off-blog conversations with blogging people, which makes it all even more real. My e-Learning world has expanded more than 100%.
I had my first taste of programming in fifth grade when I taught myself how to modify HTML & CSS to make MySpace layouts. OpenSesame leadership has always encouraged me to learn and grow with the time and resources I need. Getting five days of PTO and a week’s salary allows me to access growth resources I wouldn’t otherwise.
What a great resource theyll have. Of course, Ill transfer that into an official looking Word document/PDF to deliver to the client. But I suspect the wiki itself will be part of the deliverable package. And it will serve a double-purpose in terms of educating them about the potential uses for wikis within their organization.
I think the answer is that theyre all on FaceBook and MySpace. Perhaps because thats me, and I like being trendy (well, not really). Brian asks, "Though I am curious as to why the 18-30 year old segment is not better represented?" I did a interview with a twentysomething the other day, and thought her online habits were somewhat revealing.
I did keep the Instructional Design Resources list, which seems to be useful to people. I used to have a lot more on my sidebar and in looking at stats I could see people rarely clicked on most of those items: I had deli.cious links, access to my LinkedIn profile, another picture of me, and yet another link list.
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.). If you’re only ticket to getting resources is to ride the hype wave of “generational learning styles&# than OK. Technology Literacy and the MySpace Generation.
Neil argues that tools such as Twitter do not replace good teaching, but should be used to enhance it: "Surely it’s about giving students the skills to make judgements on information, to realise what they can trust and to make best use of resources". In a post entitled 'Is Twitter becoming the new Myspace?'
Bowman's article is really a dissection of the book which Carr used as a key resource in his article - Bauerlein's " The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future ". I think what Bowman does so well is to establish a larger, richer context for Bauerlein's book.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007 The Real World, SecondLife and FaceBook/MySpace Over the past few weeks Ive conducted about 17 interviews with current college students and recent graduates. A couple of people also had MySpace accounts. MySpace is seen as being too "creepy". All women. This is a main way of staying connected to friends.
Kids use tools like MySpace, FB etc. Digital Immigrants (Mark Prensky) -- The Great Debate Your learners are looking to you -- the leader -- at how to proceed. Misleading to apply differences solely on basis of generation. use these tools for social -- they dont have these in their learning toolkit. Marc Prensky has updated his article.
Thanks for sharing this great resource. You can look to a wiki I have developed about Second Life and ProtoSphere to learn a little about how to use 3D synchronous tools. The wiki is open and free (thus the ads on the side). 2:54 PM Karl Kapp said. oops here is wiki [link] 2:55 PM Cammy Bean said. 3:05 PM Austin said.
Open Educational Resources: A Definition - Stephen Downes: Half an Hour , July 14, 2011. My resources from SchoolNet SouthAfrica #schoolnetsa11 - Jane Hart , July 9, 2011. MySpace As Important as Facebook - Nine Shift , July 14, 2011. Brilliant Conference Lunch Idea - Nancy White , July 1, 2011.
Regardless of where Quora ends up, either as the MySpace or the Facebook of the Q&A world, I think the rapid rise of this site and others, brings up a couple of powerful dynamics that largely go unnoticed.at least not so much noticed given their power (IMHO). . One can of intellectual worms opened. .
Yesterday my wife got a message on Facebook from a friend asking for advice on how to handle a young teenage girl’s use of MySpace. Are kids being prepared to use social tools as resources? I instantly went into parent mode and told her how we deal with our teenager. The overall theme of my response was trust and communication.
Players in this arena (although not exactly all in the same role or capacity) include Facebook Connect , the Data Portability Project (of which MySpace is a member ), and Googles Open Social. That white paper would be a prize itself. From the land of Huh? The Lewin Links This link should take you to the page I have on del.icio.us
technologies like Chat, instant messaging, email, file sharing and uploading, resource library, blogging, wikis, discussion groups and RSS feeds. Another barrier is the perception that collaboration tools with "silly names" like blogs and wikis can be time-wasters, or they are associated with people wasting time on Facebook or MySpace.
Posted by: myspace design | June 21, 2008 at 12:43 PM Mark, Great article and not even close to the "dark side." Great post! " Thanks for the link. Karl Posted by: Karl Kapp | April 21, 2007 at 02:55 PM The comments to this entry are closed. From the land of Huh? where I am linking to all the Lewin stuff I find.
Top 35 Articles on eLearning Strategy - eLearning Technology , November 1, 2010I’ve been recently working on lots of eLearning strategy consulting engagements and one of my colleagues asked me to provide a set of resources around this topic. Lots of us use Twitter, and some of those out on the periphery may still be using Myspace or Bebo.
o IBM has a MySpace-like social network calledBluePages. This minimizes inappropriate behavior. Employees are expected to act online according IBM’s code of conduct. o IBM employees use a social bookmarking program called DogEar. BluePages lists employee-controlled profiles of 400,000full- and part-time employees. From the land of Huh?
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