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Using Social Networking in Education

LearnDash

Most people would probably assume that today social networking and education are now pretty interrelated. Social networking platforms are part of mainstream culture. who have internet access use social networking technologies for blogging, chatting, online communities and more. Online pen pal programs.

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Brain Rules for Learning: Who Knew? We All Did. | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

I’m sure you have had the experience of having to remember a phone number for the minute or two it took you to find a pen and paper. Most likely not, though it might depend on how many times you repeated that number in your head the day before while looking for a pen. Brain Rule #5: Repeat to remember. What did you do?

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How to Blend Education and Social Technologies

LearnDash

One thing is certain, social networks are here and will not be going anywhere anytime soon. Not a day goes by that we don’t hear a company beg us to “like” them on Facebook, and now educational institutions are very much jumping on board the social train – and with good reason! blended learning social learning'

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Daily Bookmarks 09/29/2008

Experiencing eLearning

Annoyingly, just as complaints about literacy multiply, along comes a technology that has promoted a renaissance in reading and writing, yet it is treated with contempt by the ‘pen and paper’ brigade. Haven’t you see MySpace, facebook and blogs. Harold Jarche » Selecting Social Network Platforms. Learning 2.0

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8 Productivity Tips for Online Course Creators

LearnDash

The old-school method is to keep a notebook and a pen with you at all times, which is a good solution if you prefer to do your thinking on paper. When you come up against a difficult problem in your online course creation process, do you find yourself opening up Facebook or Twitter?

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eLearning: Interesting Weekly Finds #9

Upside Learning

This free download currently delivers applications like Facebook, news, and Twitter to both Windows Mobile and Symbian devices with plans to offer an Android version of their software sometime in the future. After placing the pen against an object, the user just presses the scan button. 2. Color Picker.

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Posts that Influenced Me in 2009

ID Reflections

That is when I thought of penning this down for further analysis and to examine the pattern of influence. I Finally Get It--Why Social Networking is so Important What did I learn: The importance of Social Networking and SoMe lie in their ability to help us make sense of the confusing mass of information that bombards us everyday.