Social media: Trends and Implications for Learning

October 30, 2009

http://www.aaceconnect.org/group/socialmedia

Live Session access: http://aace.org/connect/socialmedia

Intro:

Session focus is on Google Wave, "Nowism", and the value of synchronous collaboration

Usual contact info and self-promotion:

Dave: http://davecormier.com/edblog/
http://twitter.com/davecormier

George: http://www.elearnspace.org (weekly newsletter)
http://twitter.com/gsiemens

Resources/Tools

Dave: Google wave - what is it? Why should you/we care?

George: Wave Federation:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_wave_federation_why_it_matters.php

George: Nowism/realtime web: http://trendwatching.com/trends/pdf/trendwatching%202009-10%20Nowism.pdf

Dave: How I'm using realtime web & synch collaboration.

Tools:
George:
Social Search: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/introducing-google-social-search-i.html

Dave will tell others how cool he thinks George is. He will abstain from calling George a tool.

Live interactive webcasting - http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/past-issues/volume10/ej37/ej37int/

Resources:

George:
ECAR Undergraduate use of IT:
http://www.educause.edu/Resources/TheECARStudyofUndergraduateStu/187215

Dave:
MUVE's and learning

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/seriousvirtuallworldsv1.pdf scoping study on MUVE's Serious Virtual Worlds

Projects:
George:
PLE/N conference review: links/presentations
Call for chapters: Personal learning environments/networks: http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/blogs/ples/call-for-chapters/

Update:

Africa course: a collaboration or technology issue? (http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Emerging_tech_Africa)