Personal commentary on one experience of the Queensland floods and social media. People in the states/overseas were recommending others to follow Joy on Twitter as she had the most current updates.
"Love how twitter, facebook and youtube actually connected me to stranger who are now 'real people' who are becoming friends!"
Education 2.0: Social networking for your class. Diipo connects you the teacher with your students by making it easy to communicate with your class. Diipo also connects you with other educators and your class with other classes. Featuring an easy-to-use and familiar user-interface similar to Facebook and Twitter, Diipo helps students stay connected and engaged.
Opinions might be conflicted, some people can see that all revolutions through the history succeeded with the absent of technology, and if people stayed in front of PC screens, who would participate in the demonstrations.
On the other side, many opinions say that the online social networks provided e-communities helped to promote the anti governing systems ideas, and to call and organize the demonstrations, and to disseminate news from the heart of the events. Regardless of this conflict, we have a striking phenomenon and should be monitored.
we can define three main roles of Facebook and Twitter in January demonstrations; Call for demonstrations, dissemination of demonstrations news, and increasing information circulation
This article discusses how internet played main role in the January revolution of Egyptian, and how RAND foundation report expected what happened, this report was published in 2003 and discussed the relation between technology and non-democratic regimes in Middle East and North Africa.
I would tend to disagree following an infographic that edudemic presented late last year (2010). But some parts are relevant - mainly that social networking is on the rise and online presence is becoming increasingly important.
This is another one I would disagree with slightly - you can still find jobs in the "traditional" manner, but it's much harder and jobs are more often found through connections.
3. People are managing their careers as entrepreneurs
By now, we are all aware of how social media is changing the way we communicate with each other. Social media has made it easier for us to connect with people both close to us, businesses we have an interest in and not least people across the world. And now, we also begin to see how the education industry is joining the game.