Using social bookmarking

Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group.

Log usability tests like a proObserving a usability test seems simple but it's easy to lose focus during a session and record only the dramatic or obvious usability problems. As you watch the test, you should make minute-by-minute observations of the participant's behaviour as single letter codes. Datalogging ensures you note all behaviours, not just the ones that stand out, and provides all you need to quickly create a list of usability issues you can pass to the design team.

Top 10 Twitter Trends during Easter 2010

Community news for rthe digital age

Facebook users in US

Social Media Guide

12 ways to use LinkedIn

The moderated business community for marketers, bloggers, PR, and media professionals

This blog is co-created by the students and the prof in FILM345, part of the Film & Media Department at Queen's University. coordinator: Sidney Eve Matrix inquiries: film345@gmail.com

Cyberpop is a trendwatching blog dedicated to rounding up market research and academic studies on all things related to digital popular culture. It is written by Sidney Eve Matrix.

pace, whether physical or virtual, can have a significant impact on learning. Learning Spaces focuses on how learner expectations influence such spaces, the principles and activities that facilitate learning, and the role of technology from the perspective of those who create learning environments: faculty, learning technologists, librarians, and administrators. Information technology has brought unique capabilities to learning spaces, whether stimulating greater interaction through the use of collaborative tools, videoconferencing with international experts, or opening virtual worlds for exploration. This e-book represents an ongoing exploration as we bring together space, technology, and pedagogy to ensure learner success.

Transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks.

"Educational Networking" is the use of social networking technologies for educational purposes. Because the phrase "social networking" can carry some negative connotations for educators, the phrase "educational networking" may be a way of more objectively discussing the pedagogical value of these tools.

Richard has becom one of the world's most in demand speakers on topics around leadership, creativity and harnessing the potential of people. He is an author and frequent contributer to both the national and trade press. He is also a regular on the broadcast media with recent appearances on The Politics Show and on The Today Programme. His passion has and always will be the transformation of education to ensure that it helps our young meet the challenges of their future and to that end the majority of work carried out by the education starnd of IC-ED is with that aim in mind.

Twitter generates almost one in ten Social Media global hits to websites according to web analytics firm, StatCounter. The firm's research arm StatCounter Global Stats reports that Facebook is the primary source of traffic to global websites with almost half (48%) of Social Media hits followed by StumbleUpon with almost a quarter (25%).

Tom Barrett: Intersting ways to use.....(technology) in the classroom. Aimed at schools but some intersting ideas

This journal offers an opportunity for those involved in University learning and teaching to disseminate their practice. It aims to publish accounts of scholarly practice that report on small-scale practitioner research and case studies of practice that involve reflection, critique, implications for future practice and are informed by relevant literature, with a focus on enhancement of student learning. This publication thus offers a forum to develop and share scholarly informed practice in Higher Education through either works in progress or more detailed accounts of scholarly practice.