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Friends?

I met my two Fall classes for the first time today. A total of 270 students and an impossible situation for making a personal connection with many of them. In commenting on this topic, I noted that my syllabi offer a link to this blog and suggested that I use this blog to comment on [...]

Posted 28 August 2008 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

BBC on Social Networking

The BBC news site has an interesting article on UK children (8-17) involvement in social networking sites. 50% claim to have an online profile. A claim that 25% of those in the 8-11 range claim to have a page is made at one point. The article references a more detailed report (available via a link) [...]

Posted 02 April 2008 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Social Networks - Links among People

Google is promoting an API that maps connections among people. Great idea. I would guess the idea is to discover others with similar interests “a few links removed”.
The problem is that the API relies on designated “people” connections - friends lists, blog rolls, etc. There are designated tags for such links, but how many people [...]

Posted 03 February 2008 † § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Growing Up Online - Dateline Program

Frontline (PBS) had an hour program entitled “Growing Up Online” that aired this evening. The program explores a wide variety of topics (cheating, social networking dangers, generational differences). You can view the program and related material at the PBS site. These resources would be quite useful in a pre-service teacher ed tech class.
I learned of [...]

Posted 23 January 2008 † § Policy ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Maybe blogs were just the next, not the best thing

We are on the road somewhere in southern North Dakota making the long car trip to Iowa to visit my mom. I have a new tech toy to play with on the trip. The rest of my family are power cell phone users and they purchased a multiple-purpose cell phone for me in the hopes [...]

Posted 22 December 2007 † § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

PageFlakes for Educators

I make use of personal web portals and while I was aware of Pageflakes, I have always classified it as another personal portal. By personal portal, I mean a web page hosted on a remote server that users can easily customize with “widgets” (or whatever the host companies calls function specific modules that can be [...]

Posted 05 December 2007 † § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

The disintegration of the long tail?

Alex Iskold has added an interesting post to the Read/WriteWeb blog. The comments concern the motivation of bloggers, the concept of the long tail (Chris Anderson), and whether those in the long tail will continue to be motivated to contribute.
The “long tail” is the concept that while a few resources (books, blogs, songs) get a [...]

Posted 28 November 2007 † § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: