Archive for the 'Social Networking' Category
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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Facebook As a Learning Platform
Increasingly there has been a lot of speculation with regards to using Facebook as a learning platform and the article below is typical. Many people cite its social network aspect, allowing for groups of people interested in the same sort of ’stuff’ to converse and for ideas to spread on a viral basis. Indeed it’s [...]
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Social networking on the move
By Iain Mackenzie
The possibility of integrating social networks with GPS capable phones. Essentially on line users will be able to see your whereabouts and track you (via Google Maps). Facebook and myspace don’t have this yet but as the article suggests, only a matter of time…
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Twittervision and Flickrvision
So what do people make these then? Flickrvision and Twittervision.
As Mark Oehlert here “part of me feels like I’m watching the pulse of the Web…”.
Basically what we have here is an animated mashup of Google earth and blogging technology (Twittervision) and Flickr photos (Flickrvision).
Twittervision shows real-time geographic visualization of blog entries on a social network. [...]
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Twittervision and Flickrvision
So what do people make these then? Flickrvision and Twittervision.
As Mark Oehlert here “part of me feels like I’m watching the pulse of the Web…”.
Basically what we have here is an animated mashup of Google earth and blogging technology (Twittervision) and Flickr photos (Flickrvision).
Twittervision shows real-time geographic visualization of blog entries on a social network. [...]
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Three lies about social software
From the blog of JP Rangaswami.
Shortish post about 3 viewpoints of social software (Social software causes groupthink and herd behaviour, Social software is full of inaccuracies and downright lies and Social software destroys privacy), each in turn addressed by JP. The first aspect looks at the wisdom of crowds being akin to group think and [...]
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From YouTube to YouNiversity
From the blog of Henry Jenkins.
Highly interesting post of the possibility of social networks and knowledge sharing/choice/generation in the response to the need to the individual may or should lead universities to adopt likewise approaches towards education. It’s good read so please forgive the amount of quotes!
On the current context of social network and knowledge [...]
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Web 2.0 on the rise…
…but still a long way to go. Couple of reports on web 2.0 stats
Web 2.0 not so user-generated after all?
By Reuters
Sobering and brief article on web 2.0 in terms of users viewing and adding their own content. 3 of the main web 2.0 sites are considered:
youTube: “A tiny 0.16 per cent of visits to Google’s [...]
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