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 [...]

April 24th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: FriendConnect, Google, Social Networking, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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 [...]

April 6th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Distance Learning, Facebook, Social Networking | Leave a comment