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For anyone data minded, a recipe for making Tony Hirsts connection clouds.

Post arguing that teachers should keep a professional distance from their students. I think I profoundly disagree with this post, not around the act of staying distant but about the power differential built into his argument. Acting ethically and modelling good and realistic practice in life is more fundamental to a useful educational stance. This post refers I think to non-adults and emotional transference is something that teachers need to be conscious of. I'm not arguing that teachers should friend all their pupils online, rather that his reasons for this are flawed.

Remix, Make and Share. Hackasaurus makes it easy to mash up and change any web page like magic. You can also create your own webpages to share with your friends, all within your browser.

Graphing connection in social networks.

Like most marriages, the tie between citizens and the big corporations that dominate the web is one of both great joy and intense resentment. On the one hand, they are very good at helping us with web chores: Need information? Google has more of the stuff than you could ever process. Want to keep in touch with friends? Facebook eliminates the need to pick up the phone. On the other, they do not always give us the space we need. Privacy, it seems, is becoming the thorn in the side of this marriage of convenience.

Groups and pages in Facebook - for education

"fring™ is a mobile internet service & community that enables you to access & interact with your social networks on-the-go, make free calls and live chat with all your fring, Skype®, MSN® Messenger, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!™ and AIM®* friends using your handset's internet connection rather than costly cellular airtime minutes."

"ThinkUp captures your posts, replies, retweets, friends, followers, and links on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. We'll be adding more networks in the future. ThinkUp stores your social data in a database you control, and makes it easy to search, sort, filter, export, and visualize in useful ways"

Ewan McIntosh makes some points and suggestions for teachers use of Facebook, all commonsense.

For all you Moodle fans out there!

Twitter visualisation of the network of the Boston bomber. Interesting comment on harassment, privacy, publicness, etc.

Interesting way of describing a course. While you're on the Coursera website check out the range of free courses. Should we be worried?

The author of the Windows file-copy dialog visits some friends ...

Interesting service - an 'Internet OS' - which replicates and extends some of the Google Applications.