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Social Software

Walking to work this morning I listened to the introductory audio to the course I am taking with George Siemens “Social Technologies Part 1″ . One of the things that stuck with me (partly because I’ve used this line as well) was the statement that these…

Examples of ‘Social’ Activities

Learning activities for educational social software Authors are Donna Cameron and Terry Anderson Based around an ELGG install, but could be easily transferred to other tools, this list of activities for students to complete has a wide range. This could be a…

Difference between the Ages of Information and Connection

link to webpage from We-Learning: Social Software and E-Learning By Eva Kaplan-Leiserson for Learning Circuits “Knowledge management was the darling of the Information Age. But social networks are the focus of a new age, the Age of Connection. In this age,…

MyGlu - alternative to SuprGlu

link to website from Stephen Downes: “MyGlu solves all that. Using code from Edu_RSS (which was way ahead of SuprGlu in this sort of thing, in case people have forgotten), MyGlu allows you to define your own list of feeds (including your own del.icio.us…

Using Online Resources for Active Learning

X4L Staff Development Resources from FERL this website includes the plans for what looks to be a solid workshop on social bookmarking and how that can be used with students. I think if I am to entice some use of the feedbook concept, presentations of this…