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1voteThe Apple brings together an impressive range of materials for teachers -- current relevant news items, articles addressing key issues and providing tips, job search, an online community, and vendor links. The Apple started as one teacher's project and was purchased by Monster Worldwide (as in MonsterTrak jobs) in 2008.
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2voteSchool Loop enables innovative online communities for school districts. Families get a nightly email with homework and grades. Teachers see and act on student performance trends. Principals focus staff attention on high priority students.
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2voteTo study how personal tastes, habits and values affect the formation of social relationships (and how social relationships affect tastes, habits and values), a team of researchers from Harvard and the University of California, Los Angeles, are monitoring the Facebook profiles of an entire class of students at one college.
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2voteThis site has great, short explanatory videos on a variety of online technologies, including, weblogs, wikis, RSS, and social bookmarking (to name just a few).
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1voteUnder-contribution is a problem for many online communities. Social psychology theories of social loafing and goal-setting can lead to mid-level design goals to address this problem. We tested design principles derived from these theories in four field experiments involving members of an online movie recommender community. In each of the experiments participated were given different explanations for the value of their contributions. As predicted by theory, individuals contributed when they were reminded of their uniqueness and when they were given specific and challenging goals. However, other predictions were disconfirmed. For example, in one experiment, participants given group goals contributed more than those given individual goals. The article ends with suggestions and challenges for mining design implications from social science theories.
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1voteWith an ambitious strategy for expansion, Facebook is getting in MySpace’s face.
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1voteThese articles will discuss how libraries can build online community within their own online spaces as well as how to venture into new online communities to offer services where their users are.
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