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Google Wave is a web-based application that represents a rethinking of electronic communication. Users create online spaces called “waves,” which include multiple discrete messages and components that constitute a running, conversational document. Users access waves through the web, resulting in a model of communication in which rather than sending separate copies of multiple messages to different people, the content resides in a single space. Wave offers a compelling platform for personal learning environments because it provides a single location for collecting information from diverse sources while accommodating a variety of formats, and it makes interactive coursework a possibility for nontechnical students. Wave challenges us to reevaluate how communication is done, stored, and shared between two or more people.

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The invention of PowerPoint software made it possible for great strides in the way people present information to others. Unfortunately, it's also borne the reputation for great snores when lecturers are allowed to blather on from slide to slide ad infinitum.\nA technique that is being practiced to prevent "Death by PowerPoint" is the pecha kucha method of presentation delivery. Named after the Japanese word for "chit-chat", pecha kucha (pronounced "peh-CHA-k-cha") sets specific perimeters for slides and presentation: 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide.

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The Complete Guide to Google Wave is a comprehensive user manual by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash.\nGoogle Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that's evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes. Read more about The Complete Guide to Google Wave.

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Thousands of EU publications have been made available to the public for free following the launch in Frankfurt of a new digital library, the EU Bookshop. The website hosts an electronic library containing 12 million scanned pages from more than 110,000 historical publications while a further two million pages from more recent documents are also included.

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This is the latest video in the "Shift Happens" video series by The Economist + XPLANE and visualizes in beautiful fashion a "Did You Know" 4.0 summary of the way media in converging in 2009.

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UOC - Open University of Catalonia - The Global Online University pilot course on Facebook will begin in October.
The aim of the pilot course being started in October on Facebook by the UOC Open University of Cataloni a - The Global Online University is to test an open learning model in an open virtual environment on the internet based on the use of open educational resources and a methodology driven by interaction on social networks.

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A listing of social networks used in educational environments or for educational purposes.

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Facebook statistics show that it has 250 million active users each with an average 120 friends. More than 1 billion photos are uploaded every month by its users, over 70% of whom use applications like games and quizzes in Facebook. Unfortunately, most users don’t know the implications of entering personal information, making friends, and playing games on Facebook.
This guide will show what you can (and cannot) do to safeguard your Facebook privacy.

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Google just announced that it will open up Google Wave to a large number of Google Apps users this fall. According to the announcement, Google will first open up access for some schools and businesses and plans to bring Wave to all Google Apps users next year. Google Apps administrators can now sign up for Google Wave accounts here. Google had already announced that it would hand out about 100,000 Wave accounts on September 30th and this looks to be the first step towards this.

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Here are over 100 social networks that have been set up by and for learning professionals. The platform (i.e. Ning, Facebook, Elgg) and the name of the network creator, where known are shown in brackets.

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We believe that technology-mediated social participation can be harnessed for remarkable social
benefits especially as related to national priorities. Existing social media technologies often
designed for discretionary and playful activities can be redesigned and repurposed to produce
profound transformations in healthcare, community safety, disaster response, life-long learning,
business innovation, energy sustainability, environmental protection, and other important
national priorities.
From early visions of social participation in cyberspace (Kalil, 1996) to current discussions about
open government, participation, and collaboration (Noveck, 2009; Godwin et al., 2009; Federal
Web Managers, 2008) there is a growing awareness of a grand opportunity. Some visionaries,
inspired implementers, and bold researchers have begun to explore possibilities for transforming
personal communications, organizational worklife, and online communities.

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Gwent Police hope a shocking film about the consequences of texting while driving will help prevent crashes.
The film, which was made by Peter Watkins-Hughes, stars young local actors and is expected to be shown in schools.

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Here are some of the stats from the video:
* By 2010 Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers….96% of them have joined a social network
* Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web
* 1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media
* 2009 US Department of Education study revealed that on average, online students out performed those receiving face-to-face instruction
* 1 in 6 higher education students are enrolled in online curriculum
* 80% of Twitter usage is on mobile devices…people update anywhere, anytime…imagine what that means for bad customer experiences?
* Generation Y and Z consider e-mail passé…In 2009 Boston College stopped distributing e-mail addresses to incoming freshmen
* 25% of search results for the World’s Top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content
* 34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands

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Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground. The website that has become one of the biggest open repositories of knowledge is due -- within the next week or so -- to hit the mark of three million articles in English.

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With so much news lately about Google Voice, those who haven't kept up on every tiny development have found themselves lost. What exactly is Google Voice? Is it a phone redirecting service? VoIP? Voicemail? All of the above? None of the above? Even some of our staff members are confused about what Google Voice offers and why people would want to use it, so we thought it would be helpful to offer a guide to Google Voice for those just tuning in.

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There have been a number of cases where an employee’s misuse of social media has lead to their dismissal. However, it appears that these aren’t just outliers, but the result of a serious crackdown by corporate America on tracking their employee’s online activities.

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JISC’s new guide to Second Life is written by lecturers for lecturers, to help others to use virtual worlds for teaching.
‘Getting Started in Second Life’ answers some common questions like how to set up in Second Life, what the rules of the world are, how to plan lessons and how best to help students use it effectively for learning.
The aim of the guide is to present the basics in order to help lecturers experiment, rather than them getting lost in mastering the detail of the virtual environment.

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Chris Anderson zeroes in on our giveaway culture but offers few answers as to what happens next, writes Emma Duncan.

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Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle’s article captures trends, extrapolates to implications, and offers insight into where we are heading. Lots of great examples.

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