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Social bookmarking and other Web2.0 goodies

April 28th, 2010 · Comments Off · Connections & collaboration, events, TELT news

UNFED notes 28.04.10 Robyn demonstrated and discussed the use of social bookmarking, in particular using Diigo, a group-based tool that is great for supporting collaborative work (see Robyn’s previous post on this for links and resources). These tools have great potential to support group work, so have a play, and spread the word. Some other [...]

Education 2.0 ?

May 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · Learning & teaching, Research

The London Knowledge Lab at the University of London has released what they describe as their first “contribution” from the Technology Enhanced Learning phase of the Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP-TEL). Education 2.0? Designing the web for teaching and learning provides an excellent overview of the impact of Web2.0 on education. In his introduction [...]

Evaluating student contributions

May 5th, 2009 · Comments Off · Connections & collaboration, Learning & teaching, Networked learning

[image: Beatnic] In his post – 20 Ways to Evaluate Contributions to a Corporate Social Network Dave Duarte says: “From what I’ve seen, the main objectives of online social networks in companies are: to facilitate idea-sharing around a theme or topic ; help users find out more about their peers; form useful insights to solve [...]

Is Web 2.0 getting in the way of learning?

April 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Debates, Learning & teaching, Networked learning

I came across a very interesting and robust debate in a post – Web 2.0 Classrooms Versus Learning? – on The Wired Campus from earlier this month. The ensuing debate originated from a session “Building the Classroom of the Future: From iTunes to Twitter” at the Chronicle Technology forum where ‘some in the audience seemed unconvinced [...]

Missing the boat … or jumping ship?

April 17th, 2009 · Comments Off · Debates, Issues, Networked learning, Opinion

@etalbert pointed to an interesting post from Twitter yesterday that resonated with my current thoughts around enterprise vs cloud hosted applications. In his [not so] ‘Incredibly Dull’ blog Andrew Gent asks why we cannot replicate the level of participation that exists across social media and social networking sites such as FaceBook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter [...]

Security savvy

April 16th, 2009 · Comments Off · Issues, Learning & teaching

The most recent TalkingVTE podcast focuses on an interesting conversation with colleague Anne Bartlett-Bragg from UTS about her recent misadventures with the social networking site Ning. Crunchbase describes Ning as ‘an online platform that gives people the freedom to create their own social networks for anything’ offering users ‘the ability to create their very own [...]

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