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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR SEPTEMBER 4, 2007 Stager, Logo and Web 2.0 Moodle and Elgg , for example, adopt explicitly Constructivist theories to inform their design and development. Schools may be blocking access to Skype, weblogs, Facebook, and the rest - but in so doing are only pushing themselves closer to irrelevance. Gary Stager offers an impressive assessment of the use of Web 2.-0 movement. world. | JANE HART'S PICK OF THE DAY NOVEMBER 16, 2009 Top 100 Tools for Learning: The Final List the tools that returned to the list this year after a break in 2008, including Elgg and Picasa. the tools that moved down the list this year, e.g. Delicous and Google Reader moved down one place, Powerpoint and Moodle down 5 places, Firefox (2007 winner), Skype and Facebook down 7 places, Word down 14 places and Bloglines down 56 places. | | | | | |
| | | STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR APRIL 25, 2009 New Technology Supporting Informal Learning Akili, 2007) And there is no doubt that this is a positive development for the field. child raised on text alone will think and learn differently from a child raised on cartoons or a child raised on Facebook. Garrote, 2007) More recently, social networking technologies have come to be applied to content and learning management systems. | | STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR MARCH 3, 2007 Making Software, Making Money The project to which he refers, of course, is ELGG. It was crowded even when ELGG launched. Here's the question to ask: would ELGG have had any measure of success had it been subscription-based software? As open source software goes, ELGG is almost unique in its intent to create a revenue stream for its producer. Why not? | | | | | | | |
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TONY KARRER | FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2007 Too Many Social Networks?
have a personal page, just like my daughter's Facebook page. If you watched the Brandon Hall network fail or have participated in Elgg then it shouldn't really come as much of a surprise that all of the recent Ning networks are going to get a similar reaction as David's. guess I'm a real digital recluse. Nothing new there. MORE >> -
TONY KARRER | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2007 Facebook Platform
Stephen Downes picked up my post on Facebook As a Learning Platform. He commented: To be clear, I do not think that Facebook itself is really a learning environment. All of that said, Facebook is surprising me in terms of how well it works as a platform. Something like the social network operating system , maybe. MORE >>
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