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Today’s interesting links!

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Pew internet research:“Teens and Social Media: The use of social media gains a greater foothold in teen life as they embrace the conversational nature of interactive online media.”http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/230/report_display.asp Designing communities presentationby Christina Wodtke:http://www.slideshare.net/cwodtke/designing-communities101507 Free stock photos http://www.sxc.hu/ Wikis in plain Englishhttp://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english(The other videos by the same people are excellent explanations

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Final reflections on the ALT-C conference #2

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Marion Miller, Manager, JISC Regional Support Centre for Yorkshire and Humber, University of Leeds, summed up the contributions to the theme: Learning technology for the social network generation. She made an interesting suggestion that the VLE “has had its day”. The focus is moving away from VLEs towards social networks

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The wiki way

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Here’s an interesting article on “the wiki way” from the Guardian. “Don Tapscott, the author of an eye-opening new book called Wikinomics, says that we have barely begun to imagine how the internet will change the way we live and work. He tells Oliver Burkeman how everything from gold mining

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Wikis – advantages and disadvantages

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A wiki is a universally-editable website with minimal formatting. The word comes from the Hawaiian wiki-wiki which means “quick”. Advantages of using wikis in learning and teaching No special software needed Immediate posting of content Low graphics content – fast loading Simple or complex hypertext structure as required Can have

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See you at ALT-C

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I will be attending the ALT-C conference : ALT-C, Beyond Control, Learning technology for the social network generation in Nottingham on 4-6 September 2007. I’ll be there with my colleagues Ale Armellini, Sylvia Jones and Gilly Salmon. We’ll be running a practical workshop on Wiki-tivities. I’m writing it now… it

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Uses of wikis in education

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Contrary to the usual practice on a blog, I am going to use this post to assemble links to published papers, resources, etc. on the subject of wikis. (This may in fact be more of a wiki-type activity itself, except that I am the only person contributing.) This post will

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