Social-Networking

Elgg – An Open Source Social Networking Platform

April 28, 2007

Elgg. ‘Elgg is an open source software platform designed to allow people to easily connect and share resources. Established in March 2004 by Ben Werdmuller and David Tosh, Elgg allows you to create a social network and host it on your own infrastructure, modifying the features to fit your specific needs. Users establish personal digital [...]

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More on Web 2.0 in Education

March 11, 2007

Report: What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education. ‘ Within 15 years the Web has grown from a group work tool for scientists at CERN into a global information space with more than a billion users. Currently, it is both returning to its roots as a read/write tool and also entering a [...]

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Wikiversity – The Knowledge is Free

March 11, 2007

Wikiversity. ‘Wikiversity is a community for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. Wikiversity is a multidimensional social organization dedicated to learning, teaching, research and service. Its primary goals are to: a) Create and host free content, multimedia learning materials, resources, and curricula for all age groups in all languages and b) [...]

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Educational Bookmarking: Blackboard Scholar

March 7, 2007

Blackboard Scholar. ‘Blackboard Scholar is a social bookmarking service customized for education. It provides an new way for students and instructors to find educationally valuable resources on the Web. Using the knowledge and power of Blackboard’s network of educational users, Scholar will make it easier for instructors and students to find relevant resources on the [...]

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Mashable!: Social Networking Awards – The Top Social Networks of 2006

January 4, 2007

Social Networking Awards – The Top Social Networks of 2006. ‘Is it really the holiday already? Not quite – we’ve still got to announce the Social Networking Awards 2006! With thousands of votes cast, the People’s Choice attracted a much bigger response than anyone expected. Meanwhile, we agonized over which companies to pick as Mashable’s [...]

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iLearnium – A Social Networking Community for E-Learning Professionals

December 9, 2006

iLearnium – A Social Networking Community for E-Learning Professionals. ‘We wanted to create a single place for people to gather – a place to share ideas, a place to make connections with others in our industry, a place to keep up with technology and it’s impact on e-learning! Whether you’re an Instructional Designer, Multimedia Developer, [...]

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Social Software in Learning and Teaching

August 27, 2006

Innovate: Teaching Social Software with Social Software. ‘Ulises Mejias examines how social software – information and communications technologies that facilitate the collaboration and exchange of ideas – enables students to participate in distributed research, an approach to learning in which knowledge is collectively constructed and shared. During Fall 2005, Mejias taught a graduate seminar that [...]

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Interact Learning Community Environment

August 14, 2006

Interact Learning Community Environment: Interact is an Online Learning and Collaboration platform developed by the Christchurch College of Education, New Zealand. It is an open source online community environment designed with the intention of making it easy for people to interact online, based around constructivist and vygotskian views of learning. The key advantage of Interact [...]

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