... iterating toward openness » Blog Archive » If Facebook Worked Like Blackboard A short post, but very pointed–if Facebook worked like an LMS, no real community would ever develop. Questions the whole idea of closed educational systems. tags: facebook, education, e-learning, lms, blackboard, openaccess shut down all the groups you belonged to, deleted all your forum posts, removed all the photos, videos, and other files you had shared, and forgot who your friends were. What if Facebook worked like Blackboard (or pretty much any other LMS)? Imagine if every fifteen weeks Facebook ...

... list. However, there has also been a bit of discussion on some blogs about the value of the exchanges or conversations ... much closer to them than they do by reading their blogs, and the fact that they are also able to interact with them on a much more immediate and personal level (than commenting on blogs allows) is very important  to them.  What is more ... rather impersonal bloggers. {Cammy Bean sums it up well in her blog posting, as does Tracy Hamilton]And that's the whole ... more networks for workplace learning professionals) It can be available on the Ning platform, or it might be a Facebook ...

... than news and information sites. Here’s the bad news for online marketers: people don’t go to Facebook to ... other people’s profiles, to look for people, to listen to music, or to write a blog post. Here’s the good ...

Donald Clark Plan B: txtng (the gr8 db8) Summary of a book by a professor of linguistics that examines and debunks the complaints about text messaging reducing literacy. Good collection of misconceptions about txtng with counterarguments and research. tags: literacy, writing, technology Annoyingly, just as complaints about literacy multiply, along comes a technology that has promoted a renaissance in reading and writing, yet it is treated with contempt by the â¬Üpen and paperâ¬" brigade. Children donâ¬"t keep diaries any more ⬠oh yeah! Havenâ¬"t you see MySpace, facebook and blogs ...

Join us for the Social Learning SIG’s October Webinar Title: Informal Learning in the 21st Century Description: There’s a true transformation happening on the Internet. The passive read-only experience of static web pages is changing into active participation via the read-write web. Our children are on Facebook and listening to podcasts on their Ipods, and every day we hear about blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, and the like. We know the online world is changing. We know that an interactive web will have profound implications for us as learning professionals - but what does it all ...

Join us for the Social Learning SIG’s October Webinar Title: Informal Learning in the 21st Century Description: There’s a true transformation happening on the Internet. The passive read-only experience of static web pages is changing into active participation via the read-write web. Our children are on Facebook and listening to podcasts on their Ipods, and every day we hear about blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, and the like. We know the online world is changing. We know that an interactive web will have profound implications for us as learning professionals - but what does it all ...

Join us for the Social Learning SIG’s October Webinar Title: Informal Learning in the 21st Century Description: There’s a true transformation happening on the Internet. The passive read-only experience of static web pages is changing into active participation via the read-write web. Our children are on Facebook and listening to podcasts on their Ipods, and every day we hear about blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, and the like. We know the online world is changing. We know that an interactive web will have profound implications for us as learning professionals - but what does it all ...

I really love doing this blog but man, sometimes work comes on strong and I'm Tweeting and Facebooking and my mental writing energy just gets depleted. Thanks however to Tom Crawford and the fine folks at VizThink, I'm feeling a bit re-energized. I just went through a great day-long Webinar featuring Dave Gray, David Sibbet, Karl Gude and Nancy Duarte. Excellent - all of them. My biggest take away from the day - aside from the fact that EVERYONE should go out now and Nancy Duarte's excellent book, Slide:ology and then get her to come to your company and speak and FORCE EVERYONE who ...

I really love doing this blog but man, sometimes work comes on strong and I'm Tweeting and Facebooking and my mental writing energy just gets depleted. Thanks however to Tom Crawford and the fine folks at VizThink, I'm feeling a bit re-energized. I just went through a great day-long Webinar featuring Dave Gray, David Sibbet, Karl Gude and Nancy Duarte. Excellent - all of them. My biggest take away from the day - aside from the fact that EVERYONE should go out now and Nancy Duarte's excellent book, Slide:ology and then get her to come to your company and speak and FORCE EVERYONE who ...

Iâ¬"ve been working with Steve Wexler and the eLearningGuild on the eLearning 2.0 survey. This is resulting in some pretty interesting data such as the Web 2.0 Tools Used in corporations.One of the comments I received on Network Effects - YouTube - Video Blogs and More that had a video hosted on YouTube was:We see and hear more and more about corporate content published on YouTube. How many companies are giving their employee's access? If there is a way to separate the ... given how many people are using Facebook for business connections, blocking it at almost the same rate is a little bit ...

Iâ¬"ve been working with Steve Wexler and the eLearningGuild on the eLearning 2.0 survey. This is resulting in some pretty interesting data such as the Web 2.0 Tools Used in corporations.One of the comments I received on Network Effects - YouTube - Video Blogs and More that had a video hosted on YouTube was:We see and hear more and more about corporate content published on YouTube. How many companies are giving their employee's access? If there is a way to separate the ... given how many people are using Facebook for business connections, blocking it at almost the same rate is a little bit ...

Apart, Facebook, Yelp, Twitter, and others. The drama of PayPal founder Max Levchin reads like a novel, and a good novel ... , restaurant reviews, photos, blogs. “Every single one of these sites is about meeting people, staying in touch, ...

Corp. ? (Josh Bancroft of Intel gets excellent kudos in the book...way to go Josh!) Or how about an enterprise blogging system? Better yet, is there a social network similar to facebook lurking behind your firewall that hasn't ...

MySpace, LinkedIn, Facebook, Wiki, RSS, RSS Reader, Wikipedia, delicious, del.icio.us, blogs. ... things that jumped out at me:Much more blog reading that I expected. 62% read at least weekly.Interestingly RSS ...

MySpace, LinkedIn, Facebook, Wiki, RSS, RSS Reader, Wikipedia, delicious, del.icio.us, blogs. ... things that jumped out at me:Much more blog reading that I expected. 62% read at least weekly.Interestingly RSS ...

A new version of ProProfs QuizSchool is available.  New features include:Brand new user interface, completely revamped for ease of use. Social sharing through customizable widgets which allow YouTube-style quiz embedding on any blog, e-learning system, and social networks like Facebook. Yahoo Flickr integration for a limitless image library for quizzes. Interesting aggregate analytics & trends reports, with precision down to a stored snapshot of each attempt. Google Maps integration for visualization of where quiz takers are located worldwide. Customization controls for ...

This is a great time to be alive, especially if you don’t have deadlines. I spent the last 90 minutes getting sucked into one interesting thing after another. I had to grab something from Facebook, which is not on my list of frequent destinations, and came upon a new blog from the team at Brandon Hall which turned me on to a nifty little image generator… …which I posted to my Research Page, where I store tools and links I expect to return to. Wanting to ... . Something shiny flashed by, and I found myself on my Pageflakes page, like Facebook something I rarely visit.

Day 4 and I am on the verge on actually having the number of tabs I am closing by blogging them, surpass the number of new tabs I am openning because evidently I have some sort of OCD that compels me to right-click on every interesting link (and Oh the time sink that the Dilbert and Calvin and Hobbes widgets for Netvibes are!). Thanks to everyone (*and I mean you Mark Friedman*) who has remembered that the Tip Jar is also part of this experiment! :-) Now for the shocker ... and Blurb and apps like WarBook on Facebook we need to tread carefully. As long as its online, stores can ...

... who was disciplined for the Facebook study group shows the culture clash. Administrators aren’t ready for that ... use those resources. Getting them a connection isn’t enough; you have to let them know it’s OK to start a blog ...

... on the Internet, including photos or videos. For another, you can embed your Lively area into your blog or, using widgets Google has written, on MySpace and Facebook Web pages. And you can e-mail your friends a normal Web address to get ... to experience it in our environments (such as blogs, wikis, or even LMS’). At first glance, Google seems to be ... to go to a certain space. Official Google Blog The Lively team wants to help people experience another dimension of the ... already visit on the web. If you enter a Lively room embedded on your favorite blog or website, you can immediately get ...