links for 2007-12-20

links for 2007-12-17

Homeless in the New Year

Just read that Eduspaces is to close in the New Year – bummer.

I’ve been using ELGG for about a year for individual group projects and have been using the main site since then (but started using it properly in September).

There’s a load of content up there and some really interesting things that people are sharing. So what’s going to happen – we need a rescue mission, otherwise there will be a flood of educators and students looking for a community blogspace.

I’m hoping help will arrive, but I’m going to back up my content just in case.

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What, you mean that other people could look at my FaceBook?

I was at a lecture into online journalism yesterday and we were discussing blogs, the rise of the ‘new trade press’ (expert bloggrs) and how journalists fit into all of this.

We got sidetracked and started talking about social networks and then someone piped up with “But it is my FaceBook and I don’t want employers to be able to see pictures of me doing….” Read more

The Guardian’s Obssessed with online networks

Great story in the Guardian yesterday from an Ofcom report into how much time people are spending in online networks.

The report says that 39 per cent of adults with internet access use social networking sites

Apparently we’re averaging five hours a month in MySpace, Facebook etc (I feel like I’m doing a lot more at the minute – my course has got me soc-netting, I’m on Facebook, I’ve got a Ning network for my student group, one with my colleagues and I’ve been invited into another for a research group…. And I’m trying to drum up support for a friend’s rude punk band on MySpace too.). Read more

links for 2007-12-13

Pimping the Press

Been mucking about updating my Wordpress to see if it can become a base for a personal learning environment, good stuff from Graham Atwell (this is his categories section).

Another interesting take on this from The Ed Techie – well worth a look as it takes the idea of personal learning environments in a different way.