Top Ten WebApps. Several bloggers have pointed to this list of the top ten webapps. Carsonified did a straw poll of about 3,000 colleagues, friends and others round the world in order to create the list. While the top 4 are not in the least surprising; (Gmail, Flickr, Twitter and Facebook); the 5th was perhaps…
Category: Social Networking
Student faces Facebook consequences
Student faces Facebook consequences A student at Ryerson University (Toronto) is facing 147 charges of academic misconduct. 1 for setting up a Facebook group to discuss homework questions, and 1 more for each of the 146 students who contributed. The homework itself contributed 10% to the final grade. The student who set it up originally…
Facebook and friend lists.
I’ve not been into Facebook for some time, and so have only just found the Friends list; which I know has been discussed for some time. It’s easy to add people to, potentially easier than Elgg; and, like Elgg, the same person can be in more than one list. I’m not quite sure what a…
The Economist Debate: SNSs
apophenia makes some interesting points re. the current Economist debate about SNSs in Education. She comments: SNSs do not make youth engage educationally; they allow educationally-motivated youth with a structure to engage educationally. and goes on to discuss youths that see each other regularly. I’d agree with her on that point, it’s very hard to…
With friends like these …
Tom Hodgkinson gives a fairly scathing view of Facebook. While I can see where he’s coming from, and I agree, privacy policies are infrequently read; I’m sure that I’m not the only person who puts the minimum of information in & who doesn’t think that having 3 bazillion friends is necessary (though I’ve recently read…
Social Networking through the ages.
Social Networking. Stephen Fry (or perhaps his agent) has been keeping a blog with all of his “Dork Talk” articles from the Guardian. This week, he was looking at social networking; he commented: MySpace is already as seriously uncool (and as hideously girlie, pink and spangly) as My Little Pony; Interestingly, at Poke 1.0, the…
Funded Facebook Course Apps
Tony Hirst looks at some tools that allow integration between Facebook and courses. While he comments One thing we are wary of doing with the app is intruding on the student’s social space; so finding useful things for users to do in the app without making it seem like we are forcing VLE functionality into…
User centric or Community centric?
Several people have been talking about Ning recently – it’s come up in discussion with my students – “egrommet” has used it with his students, Josie noted that several of the nominations for this years Eddies were Ning based communities. I’m just not sure about Ning. I find it irritating that I have to login…
YouTube – Privacy and Social Networks
This is an information video from the Canadian Government. I think that it does reasonably well in terms of alerting people to the sort of information that they may be making available, without necessarily causing them to never put anything on the Web ever again. Via: Nellie Deutsch‘s facebook page….
The New Web Literacy
The New Web Literacy Notes from a presentation by Dave Millard at Southampton. I was invited to this (and to the others they’ve had this term, but I teach on Wednesdays & can’t get from Portsmouth to Southampton in 5 minutes!) He raises some useful points about using Web based tools – both the traditional…