Mashable write up of our Twitter article: Alan Cann, Jo Badge, Stuart Johnson, Alex Moseley. Twittering the student experience. ALT-N, Vol. 17, October 2009. http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/xrctg5ovlfkimsphpsy77s
Second Life alternative. 3DXplorer is a web3D platform for collaboration meeting conferencing. Free option. Works on UoL campus! Java-based, a bit slow to load.
Wikipedia has rapidly become one of the most used reference sources in the world, but a new study shows that the website's explosive growth is tailing off and also suggests the community-created encyclopaedia has become less welcoming to new contributors.
‘Amplified events’ utilize social networks to record and relay discussions from a physical event to a much larger online audience. This case study is an analysis of the impact of Web 2.0 tools to amplify a local staff training event. We explore the affordances of social technologies to increase participation in the event beyond the confines of a single institution and give practical advice for others who would like to run an amplified event.
A. Kittur, и R. Kraut. CSCW '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, стр. 215--224. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2010)
O. Arazy, и O. Nov. CSCW '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, стр. 233--236. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2010)