Like I said a few posts back, we are at our worst when we try to create our own learning system thingy. However, OpenAcademic is not about an enterprise vendor riding the latest trend.  This is the marriage of Elgg, Drupal, Moodle, and Mediawiki.  Wow!  Its like the snickers bar of learning:  Lots of the most yummy open source platforms rolled into one.  This helps answer many of the questions I receive like, "how do we decide which to use, wikis, blogs, or social networks", or "how can we make them work together".  The bad part is now I need to update ...

Tomorrow I head for DeFrag 2008 . I'm using my personal funds and some of my remaining vacation to attend this conference. While you might find the fact that a corporate kind of guy is using personal time and money to attend this kind of conference ... consider this fact. Where do social media / networking tools start and stop? My wife and I often comment to each other that the boundary between work and leisure for someone like myself gets very fuzzy. I do not ... own efforts in this arena started only 30 months ago with MediaWiki and Moveable Type ... a clandestine skunk works ...

... get labeled "social." Witness the terms social software, social computing, social networking and so on. Let’s ... is that emergent social networking and computing is changing the face of work itself. I think that’s an ... and networking within and beyond the enterprise. There is a tension between the notions of collaboration and networking, although both are critical to long-term success. Networking revolves more around individuals and conversations ... , would like to network and collaborate with colleagues in the same system at the same time. Yet most tools in ...

... and MediaWiki (downloadable - same platform used by Wikipedia). With most Wikis, there is a learning curve because the ... a social network for us on ning.com . You can see our social network here - http://sss2008.ning.com/ . This gave me ... sharing, flexible collaboration, and dynamic social networks. LearnhHub - social learning network where people ...

Blogs Week 2: RSS & Social Bookmarking Week 3: Wikis Week 4: Social Networking, Flickr & MMOGs ... Patrick Michaud (creator of PmWiki). Screencast: Using Mediawiki Open-Source Software as Infrastructure for Electronic ... Libraries. Week 4: Flickr and Social Networking Software Webcast 1: Flickr: The Image of the Social Library ... : Engaging library staff in social networking tools during the MULTA project - Kathryn Greenhill, Murdoch University ...

... â?? Moodle, Sakai (LMS) â?? Wordpress (blogs) â?? Drupal (CMS) â?? Mediawiki (wikis) â?? Open Journal ... Technology, 2007 Slide 73: 81.6% use social networks The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information ... rhetoric inherent in the idea of social networking and the world of Web 2.0. JISC LXP Student experiences ... abilities of students Slide 176: to rethink authority, control and teaching and learning strategies in a networked world. Slide 177: to try collaboration and open access through a social networking site, wiki projects, ...

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... you ready? Social Networking Platforms Our Second Life Meetings Wk 10: Looking for online community: Virtual ... online community: Discussion forums - 1 - 7 September 4.5 Wk 7: Looking for online community: Blog networks - 8 - 14 ... networking platforms - 20 - 26 October 4.11 Wks 12 and 13: Facilitate an event for an online community - 27 ... , classes, groups, professional bodies, teams, networks, you name it - they have all been referred to as communities at some ... 23rd 2008. Groups and Networks video of Stephen Downes 2006. You will need a broadband connection speed to ...

... your organization might or does use Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking or Collaboration Tools? Choose ... 18 2007 - social networking at IBM 26,000 registered blogs. 20,000 wikis with more than 100,000 users. No ... ?¢ Jive Software - Clearspace â?¢ Mediawiki â?? Open Source â?¢ Microsoft - SharePoint â ... ?¢ Connectbeam â?¢ IBM Lotus Connections - Dogear â?¢ Scuttle â?? Open Source Social Network Systems â?¢ Awareness Networks â?¢ CollectiveX â?¢ Communispace â?¢ HiveLive â?¢ ...

... students with blogs, social networks, and all sorts of other great tools. What I see lacking is the innovative use of ... currently funding a project to develop an open source extension for MediaWiki software for users to generate their own ... is pretty significant because any free content project using Mediawiki will be able to implement this technology ... /Background (4) Global Land Grant (5) opened2007 (3) Open Education (21) social networking (5 ... Network Admin Register Log in Valid XHTML ...

... others across a network.   Text files are also readable by humans.    The disadvantage is that, because the computer has ... ;25th October 14, 2008 in Community Development , Leadership , Local Engagement , Networking ... network has provided me with good number of ideas about how to serve the community better ... ! July 18, 2008 in Community Development , GTD , Local Engagement , Networking , Trends , ideas ... system that Wikipedia uses (it’s called MediaWiki ), so if you are familiar with one, you will be familiar ...