Archive for the 'Social Networking' Category
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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Social Networking in Education
From Steve Hargadon’s post on the Infinite Thinking Machine blog
Social Networks online communities of people interested in the same ’stuff’ - for want of a better word. They are very linky environments in which the user, often through profile matching, makes contact with other users and exchanges ideas, information etc. Because […]
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Finally an educational use for Twitter?
Twitter is a social networking service that allows users to send updates (”tweets”) to the Twitter website, via instant messaging. the updates are in the form of a text-based post which has 140 characters limit.
The sender can restrict delivery of the updates to specific individuals and so can be used for […]
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F2F Event & Social Networks LEading to Richer Connections?
Via Stephen Downes blog. Should we consider using social networks to support or even facilitate training events / sessions / conferences? How many conferences or external meetings have you attended where you meet like minded individuals, take their details together with promises of future collaboration only to lose sight of them […]
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Studying in Facebook
From the blog of Jane Hart (Web Link). I’ve mentioned in earlier posts about my on/off quest concerning student learning in Facebook. I’ve been aware of students using it for course based discussion and as a means of keeping into contact with each other. Lately I’ve heard about specifically designed Facebook applications […]
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