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James Herbert
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James Herbert
Reply to: How Many Friends is Too Many? – ReadWriteWeb
My post in reply to: How Many Friends is Too Many? – ReadWriteWeb
Can you call them friends or contacts? In this scenario it is better to call them contacts. Linkedin for example is not a site I use to find out what my friends are doing. I use Facebook for keeping up with friends. If you have over 10 or 15 friends in Facebook are you then using Facebook like Linkedin or more like an RSS feed about people you know, once new and are networking with. Facebook might better be considered a linkedin with non-business and/or non-work related contacts in a scenario with many friends.
Facebook for dummies mentioned that it is a way to keep in contact with friends and family regardless of changes in address, telephone numbers, email addresses, or career changes. Facebook is kind or an Outlook (or other MS hater contacts manager
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James Herbert
collegedegrees.com: a serious resource for the Digital Learner
College Degrees is a great resource for digital learners and the instructors that teach them. Their articles are well thought out, through, and well researched. Their suggestions are practical, easy to understand and dad-gum handy.
My favorites are
- 57 Habits of Highly Effective Gmail Users: This is an excellent resource on how to use Gmail to the fullest.
- 50+ Useful Firefox Extnesions for College Students defines some of the best Firefox extensions for the digital learner and how to use them. Just when I thought I was going to be able to cut back to less than 30 extensions. Oh well.
- The post that takes the cake is the 50 tips and tricks to create a learning space in second life. I couldn’t have done better myself.
Secondlife is one of the tools for the digital learner that I believe has the most untapped potential. Even if universities like Ohio State have bought whole islands I still believe there is much more that the educator can do to take advantage of it.
Take a look at the blog and let me know what you think. I think its great.
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James Herbert
Facebook in Real Life
True… So true
Anne Mirtschin 6:07 pm on June 2, 2008 Permalink |
Hello James
I have followed your link from classroom20.com First, welcome to classroom2.0 which is a great place of web2.0 to be. I was intrigued with your title re number of friends. I have a twitter id and read that 150 people to follow is the ideal number. At that stage I had 28!!! Now, after 5 months, I have 350 and still do not find that too many to handle. The more contacts I have the greater my learning outcomes and sharing ability. I will look at some of the links on your blog post above when I have time later on in the day. If you are able you may change your blog url as it is missing the d in wordpress.
murcha 1:35 am on June 8, 2008 Permalink |
Oops James, I meant to put this comment on the previous post, so I hope that both you and your viewers will understand that it should have been there. However, I do love my gmail and all the google apps and am considering looking at second life but time is always a problem for me. As I teach younger students I have been looking at quest atlantis as a safe virtual world for middle school students.