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adult learners - Help Please
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Steve Mackenzie Sep. 26, 2008.
Social bookmarking - Teaching and Learning Activities
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Radhi Nov. 27, 2008.
Facebook is the best social networking tool for educators.
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I have started using Facebook for educational purposes from 2007-8 Fall semester. I have created groups for two of my courses Project Management CSIT422 and Advanced Database Mangement CSIT474. I was happy with it. But at the end some of my students…
I agree also. Because students usually use FB for social purposes only, I see two problems:
1. The "creepy treehouse" effect: I prefer to stay out of their treehouse unless explicitly invited (and sometimes not even then).
2. I don't want them to…
makes perfect sense to me Deidre. thanks for the link
Images 4 Education used Ning very creatively for their online course. They linked to a wiki for course content. This was so successful that the community continued after the course.
I am a technology trainer and I am working on developing a web 2.0 course were we will probably spend a semester learning about different technologies. I thought why not use a social network for the course so they actually learn social networking wh…
My favourite professional networking tool is Twitter.
I agree with you Deindre. It´'s their social network. Even for teachers there are differences between Facebook and other networks. My friend Sabrina De Vita, a very young ESL Web 2.0 Teacher, explained to me that she uses her Facebook only to networ…
I've seen several issues with student/teacher links on Facebook. Facebook is social, so students post pictures/jokes that I don't want to see and vice versa. I don't attend student parties for the same reason. Facebook was not meant to be a professi…
Comment Wall (4 comments)
- At 1:32pm on February 4, 2008,
Nicola Avery said… - Hiya, actually I'm guildford/london but near enough ! Will do as you suggest re books, thanks for that
Nicola
- At 1:44pm on August 8, 2007,
Eduardo Peirano said…
- Steve, why don't you try to get your Top 10 favorite tools list featured.
http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/eduardopeirano.html
http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/index.html
Contact Jane Hart, http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/yours.html
She invited me, but I think she still needs a few more submissions
- At 5:14pm on June 10, 2007,
Deirdre Bonnycastle said…
- Thanks for the invite. We are moving to a more Health Science model in the future. Physiotherapy is part of our college now and Dentistry will be next year. My workshops frequently include other areas (veternarians, nurses, hard sciences, community health) because we aren't teaching anything unique to physicians.
- At 1:54pm on June 9, 2007,
Eduardo Peirano said…
- Hi Steve, welcome to College 2.0. Please use the Forum to introduce yourself. Post a reply to the INTRODUCTIONS thread and join other conversations.
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- Hometown:
- Cannock, Staffordshire
- About Me:
- Distance Learning Developer at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Very interested in synchronous classroom technology and all things web2.0
- Your Blog:
- http://learnadoodledastic.blogspot.com/
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RSS Feeds and Feed Readers
I am just beginning to appreciate the absolute power of RSS feeds and the importance of a good feed reader. i started with bloglines a while back, then i started using pageflakes which i think is great, but i have just got onto google reader which i think is an absolute delight. I would highly recommend it
Posted on November 18, 2007 at 4:20pm — 3 Comments
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