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The International Journal of Learning and Media (IJLM) provides an international forum for scholars, researchers and practitioners to explore the relationship between emerging forms of media and learning, in a variety of forms and settings. The editorial focus is particularly, but by no means exclusively, on young people, and will include a focus on informal and everyday contexts as well as institutions such as schools.

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In 1997, a group of researchers based in Lugano (CH) started organizing sustainable development and training projects that used online technology (video conference, virtual learning platform, e-mail, etc.) to connect people in remote areas with experts from a range of academic institutions.

The content for this demonstration is drawn from Google's more than 74 Web logs. Most of the people with whom I speak are familiar with one or two of these publications. However, when monitoring Google's innovations, it is important to be able to get a quick view of what's new on each of these publications.

How do you track and keep up with blog conversations? How do you manage your time as you engage in social networks? What are our limits as we integrate social learning into our work environments? When you do find yourself becoming disconnected from your networks and organized activities, how do you return to the fray? As facilitators how do you manage multimembership for your participants? Many of us confess to fumbling along and we engage in multiple networks. Yet, many networks are essential for the projects, sectors and people that we work with, and for staying abreast of hot issues. Multi-membership and multi-platform overload is becoming a BIG challenge! During this 2-week discussion we invite you to share tips for managing participation in social networks. This seminar is organized as part of the Facilitating Online Communities course mini-conference. .

Share Your Stuff! myFreepath is a network of people who exchange content through playlists created in Freepath. Share your stuff with a private group or a worldwide audience without having to mess with file conversions or FTP gobblygook. Plus, get access to some pretty cool stuff that was packaged up by others.

Next Generation Learning is a Becta-led campaign to transform our education and training system for the better, enabling people to get better results, creating a more highly skilled workforce to benefit the UK economy so everyone succeeds.

ReadWriteWeb is a popular weblog that provides Web Technology news, reviews and analysis. It is the lead blog in the ReadWriteWeb Network, a growing network of blogs about web technology - the other sites are last100 (a blog about Digital Lifestyle), AltSearchEngines (about search) and ReadWriteTalk (a podcasting show about the people behind the Web)

This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future and the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate, and create information effectively.

We are currently conducting an on-line experiment to test the idea that people with longer than average Visual Persistence are more likely to experience difficulties with reading, such as; tiredness, poor comprehension and visual disturbances (letter reversals, parts of letters or words missing, etc.).

The Webcast Academy is a hands on, collaborative training center for people interested in learning how to produce and host live, interactive webcasts.

Microblogging is a new form of communication in which users can describe their current status in short posts distributed by instant messages, mobile phones, email or the Web. Twitter, a popular microblogging tool has seen a lot of growth since it launched in October, 2006. In this paper, we present our observations of the microblogging phenomena by studying the topological and geographical properties of Twitter's social network. We find that people use microblogging to talk about their daily activities and to seek or share information. Finally, we analyze the user intentions associated at a community level and show how users with similar intentions connect with each other.

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design.

"Diigo is a powerful, yet incredibly simple to use research tool that allows people to annotate, bookmark, highlight, save, and clip the content on the web that matters to them." (Diigo's own tutorials/promotions on YT)

Several major sites on power and energy include a section specifically designed for young people.

Afghanistan Suicide Attacks:Four suicide bombers attacked different parts of Kandahar,killing more than 30 people, and injuring at least 40. The main targe...

KARACHI INCIDENT:A child died and eight other People including two women burnt in the fire incident in area of Gulshan-e Iqbal Saturday.

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