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July 08, 2008

The keynote says:

"...the University of Minnesota have discovered the educational benefits of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. The same study found that low-income students are in many ways just as technologically proficient as their counterparts."

Access to the full article http://www1.umn.edu/umnnews/news_details.php?release=080619_3591&page=UMNN

Enjoy it!

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August 24, 2007

I don't know if someonea already notice. But yahoo is launching a social networking site for teachers: Yahoo Teachers.

It looks very promissing. We can think in some similar tools for Elgg as Learning Landscape? 

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May 20, 2007

Surfing by the web I found this interesgint effort:

http://traduwiki.org

 A wiki site to provides a easy platform to make translations of interesting text available in the Web (Creative-Commons or Free Texts).

 It is very easy to give a hand!

I already did some little contributions with the Cluetrain Manifesto y spanish. 

There area someone interestend in give me a hand? 

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May 17, 2007

Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What? 

There is an interesting article about Social Networks an the rol that educators must have it this kind of enviroments.

 

 

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