October 15, 2008: Social Networking Redux

I’ve done it again–I have become addicted to the latest thing I have tried; this week’s obsession is, of course, Facebook.  I have spent hours building my page as if its completeness was a testament to my own.  I have reconnected with people that I haven’t talked to in 15 years.  I have looked through [...]

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October 11, 2008: Social Networking

This is the topic that I have been most hesitant to explore, but after talking to Beth in class about Facebook, I thought that I should check it out. The idea that online social networking shows the way that people are connected that are otherwise invisible in real life was also an interesting concept. So [...]

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September 23, 2008: First Virtual Community Experience

The Assignment: Please describe your first experience in virtual communities online. Does that experience fit some of the definitions? What type of community was it? What behaviors did you find there? The TechLearning Blog entry ends with this quote by Alan Cohen: “It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, [...]

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