I like danah boyd's work on social media - her writing is very easy to read and always resists & deconstructs the simplifications that the mainstream media come up with in relation to technology and society. This talk is not as research-y as her other papers, but I like it because to a tech-novice such as myself it explains some of the principles behind social networking in easily comprehensible ways. The five properties of social media and three dynamics towards the end of the paper have been helpful for me in thinking about how to understand, and manage, the online mentoring for our social networking project.
Really interesting blog posting by an academic about online portfolios specifically for academics. He favours the "roll your own" approach but the post raises lots of interesting questions like who 'owns' your profile and who has control over it.
Doodle helps scheduling meetings and other appointments. Doodle is simple, quick, free and requires no registration. Simply set up a poll, send a link to all participants, watch progress online, and finally choose the most suitable date.
Very useful - much clearer and simpler than timebridge which I have used before- timebridge does have more sophistication and enables people to book appointments with you via google calendar - tried it,nobody did - story of my life
One day conference at Staffordshire University. Some interesting looking stuff, including "Connecting staff through online peer observation", "Supporting distance learning students via social networking", "Responding to the student voice" and "Learning about digital identity through games and discussion".
"The first course management system built on a social networking platform". Sounds interesting but it seems to be impossible to find out what the features of the product are..."Our design team has fleshed out the core components of course management to arm teachers with only the essential tools they need to simplify the online experience" no description of what those core components are!
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