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Today’s interesting links!

26 February 2008 by Helen

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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Our seminar at the Education Show, Birmingham, 1st March

13 February 2008 by HelenW

I will be giving a seminar at the Education Show in Birmingham on Saturday 1st March 2008. It’s about our 10-year-old project for young writers and their parents, teachers and librarians: Kids on the Net If you’re a teacher, educator or exhibitor, and you’re coming to the show why not

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Helping your customers connect is good for business

11 January 2008 by HelenW

Helping your potential customers to connect with other people can pay dividends in many ways. You can help them to make the decision to buy your products by providing an environment conducive to persuasion. Research shows that people are most likely to make a decision if they are allowed to

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Advent (of technology) calendar

3 December 2007 by Helen

This December at ELKS (the community of expertise which I manage for the UN’s Global Alliance for ICT in Development initiative) we’ve adapted a December tradition to produce an “Advent of technology” Calendar – with a resource, tool or tip about e-learning for every day of December. There are 30

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Do you use Salmon’s 5-stage model or E-tivities framework?

16 November 2007 by Helen

Do you use e-learning or learning technologies such as discussion forums etc. in teaching? Have you used or adapted Salmon’s 5-stage model or e-tivities framework in your teaching? Or have you used it at any time in the past few years? Gilly Salmon’s 5-stage model and e-tivities framework have been

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Avoiding misunderstandings online

15 October 2007 by HelenW

As an article in the Guardian today points out, travelling among different cultures can be a minefield of misunderstandings and possibilities to cause offence http://www.guardian.co.uk/../culturaltrips “Flowers may seem like the perfect gift to delight your gracious hostess with, but beware, in many countries particular varieties, colours and even numbers have

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Free community book

12 October 2007 by HelenW

This is the second Knowledgeboard book, written by community members from their own experiences, and at first glance is extensive and informative. http://www.edmitchell.co.uk/blog/?p=71

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Checklist for an online community moderator

9 October 2007 by HelenW

I was preparing a “checklist” for e-moderators of online communities and thought I’d post some of the more important and skilled tasks that e-moderators need to do and to evaluate themselves on. So often we hear managers who believe that anyone can run a community – they think: “how difficult

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Community cycling…

8 August 2007 by Helen

I’ve just found out that my local Freecycle group has changed affiliation. They are now part of Realcycle. The local group has left the Freecycle network for a variety of reasons indicative of a breakdown of community. I can see Freecycle’s point of view – they want to “upgrade” the

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E-books on online community

4 August 2007 by Helen

Useful resources, especially for beginners Otis Online Tutoring e-Book NCSL’s e-learning facilitation toolkit and 70,000 heads are better than one

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