Anne Davies linked to this book edited Terry Freedman; he’s got an impressive list of contributors, and the book is one good idea following another. She quotes Peter Ford saying: Terrys view was that this should be a free download to encourage the widest possible audience To do that, it’s best to go to his…
Category: Communication and Communities
mySociety
mySociety claim that they build websites that give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives. They’ve launched a competition to allow readers to suggest a site; WritetoThem.com was a previous winner….
Collaboration Tools & trust.
Lilia Efimova has expanded on Martin Dugage’s diagram summarising collaboration tools & trust. I think that I agree with her that IM tools are in a rather different category to say discussion boards, in the same way that what you’d say to someone in a 1:1 situation is often different to what you’d say to…
Flickr – as learning Tool
Beth H has got an image in Flickr that’s being used as a learning tool. Different areas of the image have different notes attached to them – some by different posters. (Not sure if they are her class, or random visitors)…
Show and tell online
Teens no longer watching TV According to an article in the Guardian, teenagers are now more likely to put the PC on when they get home, and head off towards MySpace, than they are to put the TV on. The current trend in the UK is Bebo, which now has 4 million users in the…
My Space – Cheat Sheet for parents.
Wired News: gives some suggestions for parents whose children are using MySpace. MySpace is a blogging site, more like MSN Spaces than blogger, and it’s very much the domain of teenagers. Dana Boyd recently published a paper on data from my space, and Wired refer back to it….
Free Wikispaces for Teachers
Wikispaces Blog: Free Wikispaces for Teachers Unfortunately not for Lecturers! I’ve used Wikispaces to test out – it seems as good a Wiki as any other, and it’s pretty straight forward to use. For teachers, they are giving them free ones, without the advertising that usually supports the free accounts….
EdTechUK: Edublog Meetup3
EdTechUK: Edublog Meetup3 I’m hoping to get to this on Saturday – looks like it will be interesting – getting to meet people that I’ve somewhat got to know through their writing, but having no idea what they’re *really* like ……
Internet serves as 'social glue' – especially if you're female.
BBC report on a Pew Internet Report suggests that they’ve found: But the report, entitled The Strength of Internet Ties, found that e-mail supplements rather than replaces offline communications. Another Pew Report, covered by the BBC at the end of last year, found that the gender divide online has more or less vanished, in terms…
Blogs and Communities
Shanta Rohse writes about what she sees as the links between blogging and communities. Seems like a useful blog in addition to this particular post; it’s one I found with a bit of link clicking. This is so addictive though, and not getting coursework marked!…