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Category Archives: community building


Why write a blog?

December 12, 2007 – 9:19 am

Came across this today: Common Craft’s Blogs in Plain English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI
All about who makes the news - the differences between news in the 20th and 21st centuries. The sources of “news”, and how news can become a two-way street.

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Web conferencing and professional development

December 4, 2007 – 12:12 pm

This morning I joined in a Japanese class where a teacher in an Adelaide suburban school was taking a class of 6 students in rural West coast school. My role was mentor/helper. We were using an instance of Live Classroom in an edna Sandpit Group. Live Classroom is a web-conferencing plug-in to Moodle which we […]

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Why the title?

November 30, 2007 – 3:38 pm

I’ve been asked to explain the title of my blog “You Are Never Alone”. The first time I ever used the title was for the first presentation I ever gave at an ICT conference, ACEC2000. The paper that I wrote was really about the usefulness, even necessity, of belonging to supportive professional email lists.
I had […]

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Facilitated Social Networking

September 20, 2007 – 11:59 am

An interesting demonstration from Elliott Masie of the Learning Consortium about how they will be using a customised social network to connect up 2,500 participants for their upcoming Learning2007 event.
They will be adding a personal touch with a designated “Connector”.
The short video uses Adobe Captivate.
http://www.learning2007.com/social

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SINs are big in edna Groups

September 12, 2007 – 12:18 pm

SINs are Special Interest Networks and, in case you are not aware of it, that is what edna Groups is all about. Pre-social networking we would probably have talked about SIGs (Special Interest Groups) but they often used only one vehicle of communication such as a bulletin board or an email discussion list.
edna Groups provides […]

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Social networking discussion launched on edna Groups

June 5, 2007 – 12:31 pm

A new public edna Group has been launched
Generation MySpace - Social Networking and its impact on students and education
http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/danahboyd
This group has been created to complement the second seminar in the education.au 2007 seminar series - Generation MySpace - Social Networking and its impact on students and education.
The keynote speaker for the seminar, which will be […]

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Dynamics in an online community - 3 - building

May 24, 2007 – 8:41 am

Through Stephen Downes’ daily musings I have recently discovered two educational bloggers by the name of Dave. All three have worthwhile things to say about building communities and networks but I agree with Stephen (I think) that a community and a network are not necessarily the same thing.
In trying to envisage what I mean, I see […]

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