<![CDATA[Diego Andrés Ramírez Aragón : Weblog]]> Elgg http://eduspaces.net/dramirez/weblog/ <![CDATA[First-of-its-kind study at the University of Minnesota uncovers the educational benefits of social networking sites]]> http://eduspaces.net/dramirez/weblog/395276.html http://eduspaces.net/dramirez/weblog/395276.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:23:04 GMT 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!

]]> <![CDATA[Yahoo Teachers]]> http://eduspaces.net/dramirez/weblog/191193.html http://eduspaces.net/dramirez/weblog/191193.html Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:27:41 GMT 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? 

]]> <![CDATA[Collaborative translations]]> http://eduspaces.net/dramirez/weblog/171416.html http://eduspaces.net/dramirez/weblog/171416.html Sun, 20 May 2007 04:34:33 GMT 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? 

]]> <![CDATA[Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What?]]> http://eduspaces.net/dramirez/weblog/170813.html http://eduspaces.net/dramirez/weblog/170813.html Thu, 17 May 2007 17:31:26 GMT 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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