Twitter and Flickr in 5 Minutes
I thoroughly enjoyed today’s session as part of Buth’s workshop. There were very though provoking questions there! It is great to connect to new people all the time…it’s just brilliant to be challenged...
View ArticleParadigm change needed to enable young people to deal with implications of...
In December I wrote about a workshop I had attended at the Alpine-Rendezvous event organised by the European Stellar Network. The workshop: on ‘Technology-enhanced learning in the context of...
View ArticleSurvey on use of Social Networking sites
Interesting results from the latest Pew Internet survey on adults use of social networking sites in the United States (I wish we had a European equivalent). The survey found: 79% of American adults...
View ArticleWe seem to be doing a lot of preparing, and supporting, but not so much...
I was greatly inspired by the Wise Kids conference on Young People in a Digital World – Preparing, Inspiring and Supporting, held in Bangor in Wales on Wednesday. This was the second of two regional...
View ArticleBarcampy
W zeszłym tygodniu byłam na nietypowej konferencji, na educampie w Hamburgu, ktróry jest formą barcampu. BarCampy, podobnie jak mówi Wikipedia (apropos: ktoś powinien zaktualizować ten artykuł ) to...
View ArticleUsing Web 2.0 tools for learning
The EU funded Politics project is using a web based story telling process to encourage ypoung people to explore politcial involvement and develop their own ideas around politica;l issues and events....
View ArticleReflection and people central to developing knowledge
A quick report from the European Commission funded Mature project. I am in Vienna this week at a meeting of the project consortium. The project is researching how knowledge matures in organisations and...
View ArticleDiaspora challenge to Facebook
Sometimes it it is hard to see anything stopping Facebook ruling the world. But a few years ago it was hard to see anyone ever challenging My Space. And some of us can still remember Friends Reunited....
View ArticleDigital Identity Matters
Over the last two years I have been lucky to work on a project called Rhizome. Rhizome is a research and development project, funded by Eduserv, exploring the key social and technical elements that...
View ArticleSieci spoleczne i Ning
Rozmawiałam na Skypie z Markiem Hylą, założycielem i moderatorem sieci społecznej SzkoleniaXXIwieku na temat inicjowania i rozwijania sieci społecznych oraz o nowym modelu biznesowym Ning. Oto zapis...
View ArticleThe PLE2010 Conference unKeynote
Alec Couros and Graham Attwell have been paired together as co-keynotes at the PLE Conference in Barcelona, Spain, July 8-9. The organizers have asked us to do something different than a typical...
View ArticleSolidarity with the students
Graham and I have just got back to Germany after a meeting of the Politics project team in Cardiff. We were following Wednesday’s demonstrations against the proposed hike in university fees live on TV...
View ArticleThree dimensions of a Personal Learning Environment
First a warning. This is the beginning of an idea but by no means fully tho0ught out.It comes from a discussion with Jenny Hughes last week, when we were talking about the future direction of work on...
View ArticleThye social web – a huge shopping mall?
The Facebook privacy arguments won’t go away. In part this is because as a society we are having to rethink what we mean by personal privacy and how much we are prepared to live our lives openly on the...
View ArticleWhere is social networking going?
The latest figures for Facebook are interesting. Facebook appears to have had fewer monthly active users at the start of June than at the start of May in the US, UK and Canada — at least according to...
View ArticleMy first opinion of Google+ – thumbs up
Like many of you I guess, I have been playing around with Google+ this weekend. And, unlike the clunky experience when Wave first came out, it is fun. Google seem to have got it more or less right in...
View ArticleWhy Facebook IPO debacle may be good news
The Facebook IPO was very interesting for a number of reasons. Facebook has managed to screw everybody. Firstly they persuaded us to sign over our data to them and then made a fortune out of selling it...
View ArticleTwitter and Personal Learning Networks
I’ve not read more than the abstract so far. But I have added this Masters dissertation by Clint Lamonde entitled “The Twitter experience : the role of Twitter in the formation and maintenance of...
View ArticleLinkedin Endorsements
There have been many discussions in the educational technology community about recommender systems. And there have been a number of projects attempting to develop systems to allow people to recommend...
View ArticleOpen Standard for Social Apps
I think this is important. For day to day work – both research and teaching and learning – we use a lot of different social software programmes. We know we cannot rely on these in the long term....
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