Sharendipity - Create Games Online for Free!
Free tool for creating web-based games & educational interactive activities. Can be used to create Facebook games.
Facebook Applications for Learning - 2009 - ASTD
Applications for sharing presentations, books, quizzes, note-taking, and research. Some of these are more general applications than learning ones (like SocialCalendar & Files), but a number of these apps are new to me.
Directory of Social Networks for Learning Professionals
Jane Hart has collected this list of examples of social networks for learning professionals, including many groups on Ning and Facebook.
iterating toward openness » Blog Archive » If Facebook Worked Like Blackboard
A short post, but very pointed--if Facebook worked like an LMS, no real community would ever develop. Questions the whole idea of closed educational systems.
<p>What if Facebook worked like Blackboard (or pretty much any other LMS)? </p>
<p>Imagine if every fifteen weeks Facebook:</p>
<ul>
<li>shut down all the groups you belonged to, </li>
<li>deleted all your forum posts,</li>
<li>removed all the photos, videos, and other files you had shared, and</li>
<li>forgot who your friends were.</li></ul>
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