it would be folly for educators having suffered inconvenience at best, data loss at worst, to commit their content yet again to a potentially unreliable cloud provider. Alec Couros sees this kind of thing happening more and more in the crystal ball future and suggests that schools and educators would be better off investing in self-hosting using FOSS, free and open source software (Couros, 2010).
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Top 10 Tips for Pursuing Lifelong Learning with an Informal Lens - 8 views
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The top 10 tips for pursuing lifelong learning focus on ways you can continue education through informal learning experiences, as opposed to attending formal class settings. Why this approach? Enrolling in formal continuing education courses and classes is difficult at times, considering life's tugs and pulls by everyday commitments. These obligations are why informal learning methods offer a viable option for continuing your education.
The Ning Thing - 5 views
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As suggested above, the only reliable alternative to Ning is to host your community yourself, or at a trusted institution, where you do your own regular backups, and your content is safe behind a firewall, with a UPS power source in case of power outages, and perhaps some sort of RAID system to keep you running through system crashes.
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Vance Stevens recaps recent Ning corporate decisions influencing virtual educational community developers, and outlines alternatives
12 Expert Twitter Tips for the Classroom: Social Networking Classroom Activities That E... - 16 views
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A dozen activities are presented for using an online education technology tool to engage students in classroom activities to develop a better understanding of concepts.
10 Ways to Use Facebook as a Learning Tool - 0 views
Building Resilient IP Networks - Cisco Press | Free Ebooks Download - 0 views
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Building Resilient IP Networks free download at the best library for free networking ebooks download.
Create Your Own Home Networks - Sams | Free Ebooks Download - 0 views
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Create Your Own Home Networks free download at the best library for free networking ebooks download.
Research on Social Network Sites - 0 views
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Research on social networking sites
Social Networking: TheirSpace | Edutopia - 0 views
Web 2.0 Teaching Tools: Social Networking for Students and (recent) Alumni - 0 views
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