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flickr graph – marcos weskamp

Posted December 30, 2005 by Jon Dron

Social networks of Flickr contributors, graphically displayed using their images
Created:Fri, 30 Dec 2005 10:37:24 GMT


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Posted: December 30, 2005, 3:37 am

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VLE – Survey

Posted December 29, 2005 by Jon Dron

Fascinating in depth longitudinal survey of VLE use in HE institutions in the UK.
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Bodington.org :: Home

Posted December 29, 2005 by Jon Dron

A neat and popular virtual learning environment. Open source.
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Friendster

Posted December 29, 2005 by Jon Dron

Early and still successful commercial instance of social software, for finding friends and dates
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Posted: December 29, 2005, 8:32 am

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eLearn Magazine: Education and Technology in Perspective

Posted December 20, 2005 by Jon Dron

Excellent high quality online journal/news magazine
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Shirky: Ontology is Overrated — Categories, Links, and Tags

Posted December 6, 2005 by Jon Dron

Typically brilliant article on wicked problems with top-down approaches to metadata, and the power of wide-scale taggingand folksonomies
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Posted: December 6, 2005, 7:17 pm

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Connexions – Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities

Posted November 27, 2005 by Jon Dron

A site for sharing courses and content
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eduCommons home

Posted November 27, 2005 by Jon Dron

eduCommons is not exactly a virtual learning environment, more a container/translator for OpenCoursware, though it has many features that match commercial VLEs. Based on Plone.
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Ning

Posted November 26, 2005 by Jon Dron

Social software and more social software – very interesting platform for very wide range of sites doing the social software thing
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e-LECT (electronic Learning Environment for Collaboration and Training)

Posted November 13, 2005 by Jon Dron

Plone-baed learning environment with all the usual features plus the (considerable) power of Plone, one of the most sophisticated and configurable content management systems available.
Created:Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:38:20 GMT


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