iSCORE is a web-based practice and communication tool. It is designed to help motivate students to take responsibility for their practising and overall music learning and music creation. iSCORE makes it easier for students to set goals, create new work, edit and share their work and respond to feedback from teachers, peers and parents. It also makes it easier for teachers to communicate with their students and help their students become independent learners. It includes a text annotation tool and links to recording and notation software.
Traditional methods for protecting community from the effects of scale and poor behavior are now manifestly unfeasible. Raising barriers to entry, relying on the assumption that users will maintain only one registered account, and placing faith in the ability of admins and user moderation to reproduce a forum's organic culture are all easily circumvented, gamed, and/or ineffective when faced with the problems of scale. Moreover, they tend to reinforce self-destructive behaviors, by increasing returns to the most persistent rather than the most constructive, reinforcing groupthink, and providing ample targets for trolling and griefing. This article attempts to fundamentally rethink what constitutes community and society on the web, and what possibilities exist for their maintenance and reconstruction in the face of scale and malicious users. The recommendations reached, after analyzing the weaknesses of the web forums we all know and love
@pushmyfollow Michael Gaines @istarman - Joe Cascio @joec0914 - Eric Rice @spin - Christine Cavalier @purplecar - Sarah Vela @orchid8 - Ann Boccio @banannie7 podcast about twitter and socialnets ... recommended
The challenge for Friendfeed and the like is that while I really like all my services gathered in one place, I would rather that these would be centralized on my blog instead of a third party service. Yes you can cross post or add badges, but it's not rea
Socialthing! is in private beta - see everything that's going on with your friends in all the sites you use, easily figure out where you're missing connections with your friends, interact with multiple sites at once, and more!
a single-purpose wiki for educators to link to and describe their social networking sites. I'm including a snapshot of the list as it is today, but it keeps growing and as it does so provides an interesting insight into the variety of ways that social net
These sites are a fantastic starting point for any creative task and should be the first place to start when searching for a little quick and dirty inspiration (after you visit this site of course).
C. Scholz, M. Atzmueller, and G. Stumme. Proc. Fourth ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom), Boston, MA, USA, IEEE Computer Society, (2012)
C. Scholz, M. Atzmueller, and G. Stumme. Proc. Fourth ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom), Boston, MA, USA, IEEE Computer Society, (2012)
C. Scholz, M. Atzmueller, and G. Stumme. Proc. Fourth ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom), Boston, MA, USA, IEEE Computer Society, (2012)