This survey can be accessed directly here: “What tools do you use to engage in CCK08?”
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The more I explore the educational uses of the web – both potential and existing – the more I’m struck by the diversity of the ecosystem. There are lots of educators doing lots of exciting, innovative things, and using the web as both the landscape for their activities, as well as a roadmap for documenting their experiences and findings.
I also notice recurring themes. The edublogosphere – if there is such a word – seems to be just as susceptible to memes and shared topics as those outside of …

I’ve just joined the Social Media Classroom, a project initiated by Howard Rheingold and funded through a HASTAC award, provided by the MacArthur Foundation. This project seeks to empower and support learners and educators via new means of communicating, interacting and collaborating, and which emphasises the importance of “participatory pedagogy.”
From the website:
“The Social Media Classroom…includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service that provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes—integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social …

By way of edna.edu.au, I’ve just run across a paper titled “The net generation are not big users of Web 2.0 technologies: Preliminary findings“. Written by a team of researchers from several different Australian institutions, the paper outlines the findings of a survey of 2588 first year university students that sought to uncover the technological usage habits of members of Generation Y.
The paper refutes the notion that this generation is comprised of “Digital Natives” and should thus be referred to as the “Net Generation”, as the findings of the …

[UPDATE: Please be sure to read the comments for a discussion on this matter between existing users of Diigo, Diigo staff, and myself. ]
I deleted my Diigo account tonight after a period of only a fortnight.  I’ve heard many great things about the application as a better version of Del.icio.us with support for group collaboration and was inspired to check it out when it was suggested as a potential tool for the Facilitating Online Communities course I’m presently taking.
Based on the little I saw of the application it did bear …