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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 […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, online technologies, virtual environments, community building, social networking | Comments (0)

Social Networking et al resources

September 21, 2007 – 10:58 am

Have you come across Common Craft Productions? They produce video materials on web 2.0 tools. Today I found a couple of new videos I hadn’t seen before. They do seem to have the knack of explaining/describing the complex in really simple terms.
Worth looking at

Social Networking in Plain English
http://www.commoncraft.com/video-social-networking
Social Bookmarking in Plain English - focus on […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, communication tools, online technologies, wiki, social networking, web 2.0, RSS | Comments (1)

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 […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, online technologies, Australian education, community development, community building, social networking, web 2.0, edna Groups | Comments (0)

Online Social Networking and Education

September 11, 2007 – 11:23 am

“Creating and Connecting”, a National Schools Board (US) paper published in July 2007 makes very interesting reading. It creates a picture of online social networking deeply embedded in lifestyles of 9-17 year olds, parents who think it may be a good thing, and schools that are not convinced it can ever have educational significance, although […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, online technologies, Net Generation, Net Gen, social networking, future schooling | Comments (0)

Digital Chalkie

August 14, 2007 – 9:09 am

Digital Chalkie is an open group blog for Australian (and beyond) K-12 educators interested in the power of ICTs to enhance educational outcomes. Maintained by Paul Reid, and based in Western Australia, Digital Chalkie aims to allow geographically disparate Australian educators to collaborate beyond the closed and often very useful discussions that go on behind […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, Australian education, professional learning, blogs, web 2.0 | Comments (2)

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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