Category: Social Creatures
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Student wins in Facebook flap
Well it seems that Chris Avenir has certainly got his moment in the lime light as he as won his case (GN). In the end he got zero on the assignments, but the other students were not similarly punished. Through the process, instructors have said that he should be kicked out. Students are saying (and…
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Walls
The Learning Technologies Center at the U of Manitoba has an interesting post on the use of wikis at their institution and it deals with a topic that I just navigated this morning. It does seem that instructors want control of material – as much to protect positions of privilege, but perhaps to avoid having…
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Wikia Update
Thanks to Andy Carvin for clarifying the Wikia situation – it is indeed a plugin for MediaWiki. It allows users to communicate with each other and post profile information.
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MediaWiki + Social Networks = Wikia
It looks like the commercial team behind MediaWiki is adding some elements of Social Networking to their product to create Wikia. It is a hosted solution (what’s with the developments for hosted wikis this weekend?) so I don’t know how easy it will be for plugins to go to MediaWiki and a quick Google search…
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Maybe Flickr is a diamond in the rough?
Well it seems that the din has died down a bit over the Yahoo/MS thing, but it still seems to be there when it comes to Flickr. There are people posting all sorts of defiant images before anyone knows what (if anything) will actually happen when the two elder Internet companies collide. But C|Net points out something…