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- Splicing information and social relations to suite the needs of different situations is increasingly important. The fields of learning and development have not yet been transformed to the online environment. The combination of learning/knowledge analytics, data visualization, and activity streams provide, I think, a sufficient basis for educators to begin planning for a post-course view of education.
- This simple tool helps you export your Delicious bookmarks to Google Bookmarks. To use it, you'll need to be already signed into the Google Account that you wish to import your bookmarks into.
- Interesting looking delicious alternative
- Calibre’s a nifty little cross-platform (available for Windows, Mac, and Linux) application that allows you to manage an ebook library and convert books from one format to another.
- Anti-Social is a productivity application for Macs that turns off the social parts of the internet. When Anti-Social is running, you’re locked away from hundreds of distracting social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter and other sites you specify.
- Ben Goldacre refutes Susan Greenfield.
- Technology is changing the way we conduct science.
- Quite simply, why would teenagers bother using Twitter when Facebook exists, and offers so much more?
- Choose the right chart formats.
- Use the filters to find the right chart type for your needs. Then download as Excel or PowerPoint templates and insert your data.
- SNAPP is a software tool that allows users to visualize the network of interactions resulting from discussion forum posts and replies. The network visualisations of forum interactions provide an opportunity for teachers to rapidly identify patterns of user behaviour – at any stage of course progression. SNAPP has been developed to extract all user interactions from various commercial and open source learning management systems (LMS) such as BlackBoard (including the former WebCT), and Moodle. SNAPP is compatible for both Mac and PC users and operates in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari.
- This post provides an annotated bibliography of some work on using social media (in particular Facebook) as a pre-registration/pre-university/induction tool. The references given can also be found at my Delicious site. Some examples of the use of Facebook for induction purposes are given at the end.
- This rubric may be used for assessing use of Twitter for instructional assignments.
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- The Internet and Higher Education 10 (1): 77 - 88 (2007)Special Section of the AERA Education and World Wide Web special Interest Group (EdWeb/SIG).
