Tag: Social Learning
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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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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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NMC – New Horizon 2008
You’ve gotta respect the people who walk the walk and talk the talk. One of these groups is the New Media Consortium (at least at first blush). They have taken their Horizon 2008 report and dumped it into Comment Press to make it a living and interactive document. They see collaboration technologies as one of…
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Personal and Professional Spaces
I was looking to see if there was anyone else out there in the blogosphere saying what I have commented on in the past about mixing school and online social spaces and I stumbled onto Connecting in a Connected World. Allison has a post there that says the same thing as well as links and…
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Another Kinder’s Kinderlappy review
The BBC has a nine year old’s review of the XO. What is the ultimate kicker? But the real surprise came one evening, when Rufus asked me to explain what his friends were telling him on the laptop. I thought those imaginary childhood friends from years back must have returned. But I went and had…