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and the most influential person is…

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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 at 1:05 am

moot, a skinny 21-year-old college student and hacker prodigy who looks about 16, runs a website out of his parents’ basement called 4chan, an adults only bulletin board where just about anything can be posted—with the exception of advertising. Oh, … Continue reading

Virtual worlds for real learning

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Thursday, May 29th, 2008 at 9:57 pm

This article in Gamasutra: Industry News – “Games for Health: Why You Should Care About Virtual Worlds” (May 13) is about using games to develop higher level reasoning skills in health education. One of the four examples is nursing instructor … Continue reading

Facebook Fatigue?

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Sunday, May 18th, 2008 at 2:56 pm

posted by Sidnee In light of the COM 529 guest speaker Shelly Farnham’s discussion of Facebook last Thursday, and class comments about social media’s generational appeal, I ran across this Time.com article: Suffering From Facebook Fatigue?

Using the Flip for enlightenment

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Sunday, May 4th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

posted by Sidnee Although the Chronicle of Higher Education article doesn’t mention the Flip specifically, some instructors (mostly early adopter technology geeks) are making use of social media to make difficult concepts easier for their students to understand. “Film School” … Continue reading

140 voices ‘Twitter’ing – one story line

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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 at 5:51 pm

posted by Sidnee Heard on NPR this week: A collaborative story is being created by middle school students from across the globe using Twitter.com. Each student is using the same account to contribute their 140 (or less) characters. Contributions are … Continue reading

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