Month: November 2005
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The Critical Advocate at Learning Rocks has a rather nice couple of posts on Elgg: see part one and part two.
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Teacher abuse
From BBC News Online: A 15-year-old boy has been expelled from a Conwy school after posting obscene messages about a teacher on a Wild West re-enactment website. The teacher targeted by the obscene messages is not a member of the National Union of Teachers. However, the union said the incident showed that teachers now needed […]
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Facebook penetration
According to TechCrunch today, 85% of students at supported colleges are members of Facebook. That’s massive – 882 US colleges support Facebook, with more to come. Very shortly the vast majority of students will be familiar with social networking software – but more than that, 60% of users log in daily, so they like using […]
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It’s not just teenagers
According to this BBC News Online article: The Pew American and Internet Life Project research suggested that 12 to 17-year-olds look to web tools to share what they think and do online. It also said they were much more likely than adults to read and have a weblog. Important fact to note: 52% of teenagers […]