Web 2.0 a personal learning journey

Danah Boyd recently wrote asking why the “tech industry fetishizes Facebook” and I can certainly see her point but having recently started playing around with it more I can see it’s potential for becoming a personal learning space for students and even staff. I’m just not sure it would be my tool of choice for [...]

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I don’t think the smaller pilots are going to work. They are not web 2.0. They just don’t have a large enough group to get any momentum or else they are too restricted in nature and don’t fit into using such technologies.
We need to think bigger, ecoversity portal, whole education authority use of ILP’s. This [...]

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Having signed up for various web based tools, wikispaces, google groups, blogging tools, social bookmarking and you get the idea, I am now in serious risk of suffering password and username meltdown.
How can we expect learners / students to cope especially if we want to introduce them to new tools. The obvious solution seems to [...]

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