Facebook questions

29-August-2007

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I don't think much of most of the the Facebook plug-ins. But I love 'My Questions'.

I am underwelmed by mots of the Facebook plug-ins (although overwhelmed by the number available. And I totally fail to understand the attraction of applications like Zombies

But the one application which I think is really useful - as opposed to decorative - is my questions. I have tried asking questions a few times on my blog - and have got a reasonable response - but the blog display is in no way as useful as the plug-in for this sort of discourse. My questions is really handy for quickly gathering different people's views on key issues.

And - 9f you do have a Facebook account - my question is "How can we support informal earning?". For those of you without an account I will publish the relies on this blog some time in the future.


Graham Attwell; 29-August-2007 12:16:10; forum (1) help

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1 Using Facebook to support informal learning

I went to an interesting talk about this at ALT-C. Michael Cameron from the University of Durham (paper 1233) presented a case where a history tutor is ‘brokering’ between (informal) student discussion areas on Facebook and (formal) discussion areas on Blackboard...
Helen Keegan, 07-September-2007 11:01:01 forum / discussion

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