... 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 ...

Answers. Certainly, the conversations and the finding of expertise via social networks such as LinkedIn is a big part ... The first week of our Free - Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals is wrapping up. This week we looked at Social Networks. Here are some thoughts on this topic, especially thoughts around social networks for learning.Starting with Social Networking was a blessing and a curse. Social networks have a tendency to be a bit messy. Virginia Yonkers told us -I would like to know how to manage the information flows in social networks. I have been part of Ning groups before, ...

... the large number of recommendations I've received - I'm now working on a new list:  100+ social networks for learning ... more networks for workplace learning professionals) It can be available on the Ning platform, or it might be a Facebook ... point about social media - it enables people to establish connections with one another, and engage with them at all levels ... length", professional interactions with others, but for those who enjoy more personal, social connections, then it seems ... in more formal networks. I've currently got about 50 on my list, but this time I am going to ask for ...

... to keep in touch with my peeps: my phone, my email account (Outlook for work, gmail for life); Facebook; Google ...

... workshop, and pointer would provide a way for users to leave review. Social networking sites account for more web traffic than news and information sites. Here’s the bad news for online marketers: people don’t go to Facebook to shop. They visit social sites to see what their friends are up to, to send messages, to update their profiles and check ... for learning professionals: people go to social sites to commune with others; that’s the vehicle for ...

Socialtext 3.0 came out today and geez did Twitter light up. I checked out the site and watched the 60 second video and then went to blip.tv and watched the other videos and yeah, more impressed than when I started. According to the site, Socialtext 3.0 is comprised of three parts: Socialtext People - Social networking for the enterprise Socialtext ...           and makes other enterprise applications social.     Think Twitter, Facebook, Wikis and more all rolled up in a nice, neat appliance that I can just install behind my firewall - a ...

... are PG. tags: skype Harold Jarche » Selecting Social Network Platforms Describes several smaller social network ... paperâ¬" brigade. Children donâ¬"t keep diaries any more ⬠oh yeah! Havenâ¬"t you see MySpace, facebook and ...

... learning platform where the semantic web, social learning, and communities of practice converge. Once again, the ... . Back to those Twittering, Facebooking, always-on college students. Our challenge is not to design overlays and ... doing is building networks to help us all work more effectively. Yeah, theyâ¬"re different. But so is the world we ...

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 ...

... if developing a Facebook app so that we could 'throw sheep' at each other, was the best use of our talents.

... if developing a Facebook app so that we could 'throw sheep' at each other, was the best use of our talents.

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 ...

... pretty interesting data such as the Web 2.0 Tools Used in corporations.One of the comments I received on Network Effects ... given how many people are using Facebook for business connections, blocking it at almost the same rate is a little bit of ... surprising - LinkedIn being blocked by 7.9%. If I was CEO of these corporations, I'd make sure my HR/recruiting folks and my ... LinkedIn. It's such an amazing resource to find expertise and get answers. Yes, your employees might use it to go ... Wikipedia vs. getting it from other people via something like LinkedIn. Corporations have not woke up to the need ...

... pretty interesting data such as the Web 2.0 Tools Used in corporations.One of the comments I received on Network Effects ... given how many people are using Facebook for business connections, blocking it at almost the same rate is a little bit of ... surprising - LinkedIn being blocked by 7.9%. If I was CEO of these corporations, I'd make sure my HR/recruiting folks and my ... LinkedIn. It's such an amazing resource to find expertise and get answers. Yes, your employees might use it to go ... Wikipedia vs. getting it from other people via something like LinkedIn. Corporations have not woke up to the need ...

... are social networks built for one’s friends that just happened to prove viable as companies. The users provide the ... -incarnation of the web in Silicon Valley through the inside stories of the entrepreneurs behind PayPal, LinkedIn, Digg, Six Apart, Facebook, Yelp, Twitter, and others. The drama of PayPal founder Max Levchin reads like a novel, and a good novel ... business organizations as well as among netizens. Some people believe the more we socialize online, the bigger the rift in the real-world social fabric. That interacting with each other via machines makes us all more antisocial. Nothing could ...