Category: Social Creatures
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Trust in Social Networks
It didn’t surprise me very much that there is already work done on trust and social networks (Google Scholar), what did surprise me how StalkDaily and Mickeyy spread this weekend on Twitter. It seems that the social engineering method of vectoring viri is alive as well. This time, not working off porn or warez, but…
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Separating Networks
For the past year, since I’ve been on Twitter, I’ve been looking at ways to post to both should the need arise. I found several tools to do this – ping.fm et. al. I had also tried the app within Facebook, but until this week, it never seemed to work “properly” for me. I was…
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Classrooms, territory and personal electronics
This morning, I came across a rather interesting post from Doug Clark on the anatomy of a classroom. In the post he talked about personal space and technology, among many other interesting observations about why the box that is the “modern” classroom is seemingly failing ever more. The first point is about personal space: Classrooms…
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Rise of Micro…commenting??
This is something that has come to me only in the last couple of weeks as for whatever reason, I saw a story somewhere that said that FriendFeed was dead or dying (really or not ??). Then over about the same time, I’ve had quite the number of requests to subscribe to my feed. Most…
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How we hold our students back
Ok, so I just got out of a meeting with internship co-ordinators where I brought up the idea of using podcasts and blogs as a way to allow students to collaborate and reflect on their experiences. This would not only allow students to create an archive of their experiences, it would allow students to collaborate…