Archive for the 'Social Networking' Category
Pedagogy 2.0
Transforming Pedagogy through Social Software by Catherine McLoughlin and Mark J. W. Lee Web Link
Short paper which briefly looks at the opportunities offered by web 2.0 technology (wikis, blogging etc.) in terms of enabling students to become content creators. Consideration is given the notion of ‘pedagogy 2.0’ which is essentially a learner centred environment founded [...]
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Vlogging for Education – A Presentation at the Third Blended Learning Conference
Okay so it’s been a while but I’ve been busy tying up a few loose ends. Particularly I’ve been involved with the Blended Learning conference (Web Link) for which I had to prepare one presentation, 2 posters and a workshop. At the same time I have co-written two papers for Ed-Media 2008 (Web Link) and [...]
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How might you use blogging to support your students in their learning?
This entry was created to support the blogging exercise from the workshop: ‘Classroom 2.0: “flattening the walls”’, (3rd International Blended Learning Conference 2008, University of Hertfordshire, UK).
Please take 5 minutes to discuss in pairs as to how you might use blogs to support your students in their learning.
For instance how might you use them [...]
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The Possible Future of MLEs
Here are the slides from a presentation, made by myself and Ian Glover, at a recent Learning and Teaching Institute meeting.
The slides are taken from a series of papers we have developed concerning the possible future evolution of managed learning environments.
The rise of Web 2.0 has led many practitioners to the conclusion that social networking [...]
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Sites like Facebook are proving the value of the “social graph”
From MITS Technology Review by Erica Naone, (Web Link).
A great article which looks at how you can represent a persons social graph – a person’s network of friends, family, and acquaintances.
The Blogosphere
Matthew Hurst, a scientist at Microsoft’s Live Labs, used a search tool, called Blogpulse, to generate visualizations of the blogosphere.
Credit Matthew Hurst (blog) via [...]
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Children flock to social networks
“More than a quarter of eight to 11-year-olds who are online in the UK have a profile on a social network, research shows.”
Form the BBC a lengthy article on the continued rise of social networking. There’s some very interesting stats, for example:
* 49% of children 8-17 have an online profile
* 22% of 16+ have an [...]
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Twitter in teaching and learning part 3
Okay third and final part.
Darren Rowse lists 9 Benefits of Twitter for Bloggers. He started off using Twitter to: improve the quality of his blogs * network with other bloggers *widen his readership * grow his profile and drive traffic to his blogs.
He lists 9 benefits, most of which are marketing oriented but nevertheless can [...]
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Twitter in teaching and learning part 2
Storytelling: Tom is also participating in the @ManyVoices Project (here). Basically this is an ongoing collaborative story being written by 140 different school students across the globe. Each student uses Twitter to write part of the story keeping to the 140 character limit. Once the student has finished their bit another student continues the tale. [...]
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Twitter in teaching and learning part 1
Okay so this post started out as a bit of a summary of Twitter (check it out here and the Wikipedia definition here) in terms of classroom use. I’m new to Twitter so it’s essentially a compilation of other peoples experiences / observations, (most of these were found through ‘Around edublogs twittering’ found here). Essentially [...]
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Academic use of Twitter
From academHAck (Web Link).
Twitter again. It seems to becoming quite popular. For info Twitter is a social networking (aka micro-blogging) service that allows users to send “updates” (text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service or instant messaging. The act of doing this is called ‘Twittering’ and when [...]
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