FriendConnect: Yahoo Groups on Steroids

Google has a fairly new feature called FriendConnect that ostensibly helps website owners easily provide social features on their website. By simply copying and pasting a snippet of code in your website HTML you open the door to the possibility that other FriendConnect members will find your site and, assuming they like your content, follow [...]

Ferocious Hippos

I’m only posting this because of a funny conversation about hippos we had in our design team meeting last week. This video and information is for mainly for Carol but the whole design team (and others?) is welcome to enjoy the funny:


At first glance, these wallowing river-horses appear to be [...]

My Experience with Social Networking in Online Courses

I was reading a recent article in Innovate about using Facebook in the classroom. I really like this idea because Facebook is popular with students and might make it easier for them to interact with each other in a familiar and meaningful way. Instead of, for example, interacting in a forum where their responses for [...]