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May 2007

May 08, 2007

Social Science & Web2 conference: last call for papers!

May 08, 2007

The deadline is this Friday. I'm going to submit on a project I'm working on about school aged learners use of Social Networks (& keep my fingers crossed!)Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0: 5th & 6th September 2007 National Science Learning Centre (NSLC), the University of York, U.K.  A 2-day event organised by the Social Informatics Research Unit (SIRU), Department of Sociology, ...

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May 11, 2007

Web2 app review: CalendarHub

May 11, 2007

For my Web2 app review I’ve chosen CalendarHub, an online social calendar developed by WiredBlue, a development team who work with Ruby on Rails. Why CalendarHub? The problem with app reviews is that you can’t just wheel them out. Sure, you can give a breakdown of comparative service features (although you will have to sort this out yourself for ...

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May 22, 2007

Two new platform activities now available!

May 22, 2007

I’ve just posted two new activity sheets to the site – you can find them here (word for now, PDF ‘s to follow shortly). Emerge activity 5 looks at group spaces in the platform – specifically working with the community tool. It’s designed to get you looking around the site and experimenting with community groups on the platform.Emerge activity ...

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May 24, 2007

June 5, 6 & 7: Emerge online activity days

May 24, 2007

On 5, 6 and 7 June we will be hosting the Emerge online activity days.The aims for the online activity days are:For community members to share ideas, expertise and expectationsTo explore the Users and Innovation Development Model (UIDM) processes and elicit expertise from the wider communityTo recognise and make explicit community scaffolding – so ...

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May 25, 2007

Emerge activity 7: Showcasing your Emerge group

May 25, 2007

Activity 7 is our very first whole team activity. The activity is designed for groups to achieve the following:• Enable other teams and individuals to better understand your work and create connections and develop conversations around themes and interests. • Work together using the Emerge platform to produce a team ‘directory entry’ which can be accessed from the Emerge site.• Look at creative ...

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