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Social Networking Sites and their use in Education
Posted May 20th, 2008 by Colin MooreQuestion about using Myspace and Facebook for Academic Work
"We are currently teaching an instructional technology and pedagogy seminar for a group of Biology Post-Docs and the question came up regarding "why not use MySpace for course web pages?"
-- Wayne Morse Jr. - Emory University
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NMC Releases White Paper on the Evolution of Communication
Posted October 12th, 2007 by Rachel SmithThe New Media Consortium announced today the release of Social Networking, the “Third Place,” and the Evolution of Communication, a white paper that discusses the premise that technology not only mediates interactions, but is actually changing the nature of communication itself.
This release marks the first in a series of topical papers associated with the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (formerly the Series of Online Conferences), which are designed to explore emerging topics in education and technology using social computing technologies to bring people together online in a way that offers many of the same affordances of a face-to-face conference.
Social Networking, the "Third Place," and the Evolution of Communication
Posted October 10th, 2007 by Rachel SmithSocial Networking, the "Third Place," and the Evolution of Communication
This white paper is being released in a variety of forms as part of the NMC's New Scholarship Initiative.
Download the white paper in PDF (78k) -- but please also contribute to the paper and add to the conversation around it by commenting on it here. The paper is presented below in sections so that context-specific comments can be added or try the new CommentPress version that allows comments to be added to each paragraph. Please add your thoughts!
One Year or Less: Social Networking
Posted January 23rd, 2007 by NMCSocial Networking
Time-to-adoption Horizon: One Year or Less
The expectation that a website will remember the user is well established. Social networking takes this several steps further; the website knows who the user’s friends are, and may also know people that the user would like to meet or things the user would like to do. Even beyond that, social networking sites facilitate introduction and communication by providing a space for people to connect around a topic of common interest. These sites are fundamentally about community—communities of practice as well as social communities.
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