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Through the Digital Looking Glass: A Global Digital Citizenship Project was created to be flexibly integrated into any class, and can be modified to fit the age of your students. You and your partner school will decide on a timeline that fits best for your classes. Through sustained dialog in a monitored blog, students will explore what digital citizenship encompasses including: digital literacy, cyber bullying, and digital footprint.
US academics are using the web to offer world-class tuition – free – to anyone who can log on, anywhere in the world.
Twitter has changed the way it responds to DMCA copyright notices. Rather than removing tweets, it is "withdrawing" them instead. This helps show when and why tweets go missing, and also brings new transparency to the DMCA process.
Los estudiantes que tuitean como parte de su instrucción están más compenetrados con el contenido de sus cursos, con los profesores y con sus otros compañeros. Además reciben notas más altas,
You are not your Twitter timeline. That much is obvious. Your Twitter experience is created by people you follow. If you’re on Twitter to grow, to become a better professional player ...
New submitter jest3r writes "On Tuesday the EFF filed a brief proposing a process for the Court in the Megaupload case to hold the government accountable for the actions it took (and failed to take) when it shut down Megaupload's service and denied...
Following the emergence of MOOCs, what will be the future of education? Would it be based on the MOOC model, as I have explored last year? With the proliferation of MOOCs this year, MOOC providers ...
UK Intelligence recruiting brilliant minds for eavesdropping social networks...
La visión de la salud y la sanidad a los ojos de los médicos de familia
Mixing social media and job duties can be a win-win—or not. How professionals who cultivate their own online identity may pose a challenge for their companies, bosses and co-workers.
A great series of vintage social networking posts by advertising agency moma.
We see [Ben Grosser's] point that all the metrics found on the Facebook user interface make the experience somewhat of a game to see if you can better your high score.
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This year, we’re doing something different. We’re working to build better connections & participation in the #globalclassroom community through the launch of “The Handshake Sp...
Are MOOC’s really about FREE education? Coursera reveals how it intends to generate revenue off of “freely” available MOOC’s. In fact, many MOOC companies are launching busi...
The majority of websites have an intent, whether it’s to; showcase work, present & sell a product, for entertainment, or provide information, and at the end the way that the website is laid out showcases the main aspect of it, but there may be specific...
Computer scientists have developed an algorithm that automates the task of assembling contact lists into circles of friends and colleagues...
In 2012, the walled garden is back as a business model used by nearly every giant involved in the Web today: Apple, Google, Amazon, Twitter, Facebook. The new walled garden takes different forms — some through their mobile OS, some through a ubiquitous service — but each walled garden is designed to create an alluring experience for consumers. They all rely on an ecosystem of developers, content publishers, and others that took them years to cultivate. They are the primary connection points for consumer to today’s Web, the way portals and online services like AOL were a dozen years ago.
Amnesty International is launching a Facebook application that will illustrate to users of the social media site how their posts could see them tortured, imprisoned or even killed in other countries. The application, called Trial By Timeline, scans a person's Facebook page and determines what crimes they might have committed in other countries simply through listing their occupation, gender, relationship status or liking posts that an oppressive regime may deem offensive.
The current popularity of MOOCs is like the running of Olympic Games, where different MOOCs are competing with each others in a global arena of education. What is MOOC? The emergence of MOOCs has t...
Adding photo filters would be waste of Twitter’s energy, and yet another sad sign of Twitter walling itself off instead of collaborating.
Uno de los mejores usos que podemos hacer de Twitter en un evento es el de usarlo como backchannel, así podemos escuchar todo lo que están comentando no sólo los asistentes sino también las personas que no están físicamente allí...
We have begun to pollute and desecrate and cheapen all of our experiences.
¿Desconfías sobre la posibilidad de que una cuenta con un huevo como avatar sea spam en Twitter?
Via Vicente Montiel
Many businesses have second thoughts about joining the social media world because they are afraid of the potential for negative comments.
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