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Abstract:
This paper describes a process of migration from formal, paper-based, institutionally owned processes towards informal, social, student-centred personal development. In terms of tool use, this journey involves moving from isolated personal silos to flexible online networks which attempts to use social tools to increase engagement with education.

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Awesome location-based music project.

Just start each video playing at random and it all fits together into a wonderful avant garde mix. No 2 passes are ever the same and you get some wonderful serendipitous moments where different pieces come together.

Spine tingling!

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Video of Ewan McIntosh encouraging eportfolio users to share their work as widely as possible to capitalise on learning opportunities.

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This seems to be a really hard number to come by. Not sure how far I would trust these figures, other than just saying "it's a big number".

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An example of an HEI using location-based social media to support its students.

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Police.uk crime stats for your Foursquare check-ins.

Interesting mash up of open data and location-based social networking. The raw police data looks only at locations to compare crime rates, but this app takes it from the perspective of the individual who moves between locations. The crime stats for your latest 10 check-in locations are collated to give you a "fear" score - ie, if you spend all your time in crime-ridden locations you'll have a higher score.

This is interesting, but I wonder about the meaningfulness of the data. Also, how productive is it to explicitly link crime figures with fear. It makes for a catchy title but is this giving people something else to be scared of?

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UK Government's open data web site. Great source of info for visualisations and map mash-ups.

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From New Media Monthly - using maps to tell the secret histories behind places. It feels a bit like turning a real place into a museum - but in a good way.

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Ewan McIntosh shares a YouTube video explaining the differences between Gt Britaun, UK, the nations comprising it, dependencies etc.

The point he is making is more about the medium, thinking about how we can encourage children to demonstrate their understanding through means that are as creative and social as this.

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Here's Martin Weller's take on the "social networking backlash" backlash

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I really should broaden my reading beyond the Guardian, but here's a post about the backlash against social networking.

Is it really a backlash or just down to social networking's progress along the hype curve?

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Blog post from Brian Kelly on UK Universities using official Twitter accounts. It's interesting to compare them all and Brian has some useful suggestions for best practice at the end of the post

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Another tool for creating a walled-garden social network. I've yet to try it out but it could be interesting

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Bookmarking tool for creating bunches of links. Techcrunch gave it a positive first-look but said recording URLs was a bit clunky.

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How technology can facilitate a more collaborative society. Loved the line, "why own a drill when what you need is a hole?"

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Does what it says on the tin. Stats from Technorati, 2009 so quite out of date now. Still interesting.

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Draft chapter from Grainne Conole from the OU discussing how web2.0 based tools can affect teaching and learning, the literacies required to expoit them properly and a look at the OU Cloudworks tool

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Reflection on the Guardian's recently published social media guidelines for journalists

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An example of digital storytelling using a range of social media. Storify, still in beta and requiring an invite (which I don't have yet, boo!), allows a user to aggregate different items of social media to create a narrative experience on a topic.
This is an example by will Allen at JISC Netskills

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Counter intuitive results to a survey by Citrix about the age of people driving social networking in businesses. 

It doesn't seem to comment on to what extent the Gen Y-ers are using it outside of work and are reluctant to use it as professional tool.

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