Ways to incorporate today's Web 2.0 tools (including social networking) in a conventional classroom setting.
After many privacy battles, Facebook Connect, a social networking site,
will finally launch. Connect allows web browsers to track their friends
activity on a variety of websites, such as hulu.com, cbs.com, etc. It will
also update facebook pages as to what friends are doing on other
websites.
Obama not only used the internet to campaign, but he will also use it to
govern.
HERNDON, Va., Oct 23, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Over the last 13 months, ePals, Inc., has seen a substantial increase in the number of educators passionate about using online learning methods and leveraging "social networking" technologies in their classrooms. Supporting this trend, adoptions of its free, award-winning, online Global Learning Community,
Education technology developer Saba this week debuted a new solution it describes as an "enterprise social networking platform." The new system, Saba Social, is designed to extend Saba's collaboration platform and provide a vehicle for delivering and capturing informal, peer-to-peer learning and knowledge exchange.
Classroom 2.0 is a social networking site for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education.
Social networks will bring large (positive) changes to educational methods. Follow this debate at the Economist.