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Links for 2008-03-05 [del.icio.us] Posted: 06 Mar 2008 12:00 AM CST Web 2.0 Applications in Learning : eLearning Technology Fairly lengthy blog entry, but covers a lot of issues connected with introducing web2.0 into education Students aren't passionate about their subjects any more, say lecturers | Students | EducationGuardian.co.uk Traditional academic publishers are ‘on the move’, new report suggests : JISC Free is Good: It's Delightful; It's del.icio.us Education World ® Technology Center: Doug Johnson: some good uses of del.icio.us in education. Worth noting. Online gamers play at swapping gender | Technology | guardian.co.uk

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Links for 2008-03-03 [del.icio.us] Posted: 04 Mar 2008 12:00 AM CST Digital kids ditch homework for networking | Technology | The Guardian British 15-to-19-year-olds admit spending significantly less time doing homework than they used to as a result of their use of social-networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo, according to research published today - no... really?! del.icio.us network explorer Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus

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Links for 2008-02-28 [del.icio.us] Posted: 29 Feb 2008 12:00 AM CST Learning Circuits -- ASTD's Online Magazine Covering E-Learning Is Web Technology Making Your Life Better? - ReadWriteWeb Does web technology overload or ease? Interesting blog post on the topic The Advantages of Closing a Few Doors - New York Times Thought provoking - sometimes the sensible option is just to close your eyes and ignore stuff

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Links for 2008-02-27 [del.icio.us] Posted: 28 Feb 2008 12:00 AM CST Newswise Social and Behavioral Sciences News | The Downside of a Good Idea Interesting study which shows that greater connections are good for solving simple problems, more difficult issues are better performed by small groups - a drawback off too much connectivity? The case for long articles : February 2008 : Ian Douglas : Technology : Telegraph Blogs Longer isn't necessarily worse as far as online content is concerned Beware of Freeconomics - ReadWriteWeb VLE a safer bet than web-based 'free'? Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business "To Do" list template Useful for time management planning Time Management from Mind Tools - How to manage time and maximize effectiveness

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Links for 2008-02-25 [del.icio.us] Posted: 26 Feb 2008 12:00 AM CST Why short is tweet for the blogging community | Media | The Guardian Not sure I agree... but interesting anyway! Who Is This Person? :: Firefox Add-ons Could be so useful for helping to critically evaluate web sources during web research Why Google Buys Companies Interesting background on the progress of web2.0 giant

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Links for 2008-02-22 [del.icio.us] Posted: 23 Feb 2008 12:00 AM CST Connectivism Blog "Collective or connective intelligence" - great article by George Siemens which gets you thinking about learning styles in the networked world

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Links for 2008-02-20 [del.icio.us] Posted: 21 Feb 2008 12:00 AM CST There is good reason to be worried about declining rates of reading | Comment is free | The Guardian Interesting response to an earlier article about the Dawn of the Digital Natives (also in The Guardian) Create Your Personal Newspaper Could be interesting for pulling together feeds from a class blogging project...

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Links for 2008-02-19 [del.icio.us] Posted: 20 Feb 2008 12:00 AM CST BBC NEWS | Education | Warning given over techno addicts No way!... People like checking their messages and some people get addicted? Really!??! Shocker...

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Links for 2008-02-18 [del.icio.us] Posted: 19 Feb 2008 12:00 AM CST 7 Things You Should Know About... | ELI | EDUCAUSE Useful brief overviews of some of the main web 2.0 technologies being used / potentially used in education Welcome to Connectivism! — Connectivism Working Smart: How to Start a Blog Applying learning styles in an online course. - Free Online Library

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Links for 2008-02-17 [del.icio.us] Posted: 18 Feb 2008 12:00 AM CST O'Reilly -- What Is Web 2.0 Useful background knowledge on the origins of web 2.0 from Tim O'Reilly Mind42.com - Collaborative mind mapping in your browser Free online mindmapping which could be extremely useful and compete with the MindMeister version

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Links for 2008-02-16 [del.icio.us] Posted: 17 Feb 2008 12:00 AM CST blog of proximal development » Towards Reflective BlogTalk Interesting ideas about how to use blogging in education and make it a collaborative reflective experience CRC: Index of Learning Styles

Links for 2008-02-15 [del.icio.us] Posted: 16 Feb 2008 12:00 AM CST The Rise of Twitter as a Platform for Serious Discourse - ReadWriteWeb Internet Culture - EveryStudentsComTechnologyWiki 13 Great Tools For Organizing The Web

Links for 2008-02-14 [del.icio.us] Posted: 15 Feb 2008 12:00 AM CST LinkBunch BETA - http://linkbun.ch Useful for shortening and sending multiple links in a single URL

Links for 2008-02-13 [del.icio.us] Posted: 14 Feb 2008 12:00 AM CST Class blogs - management, moderation and protection

Links for 2008-02-11 [del.icio.us] Posted: 12 Feb 2008 12:00 AM CST comScore: Social Networks Still Growing Strong, Engagement Leveling Off Virtual Economics: You can't sell news to people who won't borrow Dickens

Links for 2008-02-10 [del.icio.us] Posted: 11 Feb 2008 12:00 AM CST Twitter for Academia

Links for 2008-02-09 [del.icio.us] Posted: 10 Feb 2008 12:00 AM CST Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT