[LM_NET] FW: Why we like the social Web (blog) - pls post!

[Nancy Willard <nwillard@CSRIU.ORG>]

Hi all. 

The below just came to me from Anne Collier. (If you are not subscribed to
her excellent weekly letter you should be.) By coincidence I have been asked
to participate in an online debate for later January hosted by The
Economist. The question for this debate is: Does social networking bring
positive change to education? I am a guest participant. The two debaters
are: 

CON - Michael Bugeja, Director of Greenlee School of Journalism and
Communication, Iowa State University of Science and Technology.
Author of 21 books, with research often being cited by NYT and IHT to name a
few, Dr. Bugeja was among the first to analyze the use of Facebook before
many professors realized that most of their students were already registered
and of Second Life before many students had ever heard of it.

PRO - Ewan McIntosh is the National Adviser on Learning and Technology
Futures for Learning and Teaching Scotland, the education agency responsible
for curriculum development, and a member of the Channel 4 Media Advisory
Board.  He writes about social media and learning for the Guardian and the
BBC, speaks internationally and consults for organizations including the
British Council, the RSA, General Teaching Council of Scotland, RM and
Scottish Enterprise, advising on how social media can be harnessed for to
improve learning in the organization, leadership and communication.  He
blogs at http://edu.blogs.com.

So letıs all jump in the discussion, ok?

Nancy

-- 
Nancy Willard, M.S., J.D.
Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use
http://csriu.org
http://cyber-safe-kids.com
http://csriu.wordpress.com
nwillard@csriu.org

Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats: Responding to the Challenge of Online Social
Aggression, Threats, and Distress (Research Press)
Cyber-Safe Kids, Cyber-Savvy Teens: Helping Young People Learn to Use the
Internet Safely and Responsibly (Jossey-Bass)


------ Forwarded Message
From: "Anne Collier" <anne@netfamilynews.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 09:51:57 -0700
To: 
Subject: Why we like the social Web (blog) - pls post!

Hello, everyone! The other day Stephen C-D mentioned Andrew Keen's book to
me as having gotten wheels turning and kindly sent me a link to this review
of it < http://www.reason.com/news/show/123523.html
<http://www.reason.com/news/show/123523.html> > (since I'm not near an
English book store at the moment). It challenged me, I emailed Stephen back,
with a question I felt I should try to articulate better: "What is it that I
like about the social Web?" I told him I'd love to ask a whole bunch of
people that. Then it occurred I could just start a blog and ask people to
post their answers to the question - people in online-children's advocacy.

So here's the blog: http://why-we-like-the-social-web.blogspot.com/

I just started it off today, with a short prelim list. Would it be
fun/interesting to add your own lists? Just email them to me, and I'll post
'em. No rush. (I probably should've started a wiki, but Blogger's familiar
and easy for me. I'm open to suggestions, though!)

Please pass this along to any other friends and colleagues, including
critics of the social Web - including Andrew Keen, whoever has email
address!  <http://why-we-like-the-social-web.blogspot.com/>

I'd like to post people's names with their lists, so I hope you don't want
to be anonymous. If you'd like me to link to your site in your sig, just
send me the URL. All of this is open to suggestions! Also, if others have
put up a blog or wiki like this which you know of, please send the URL.

Just a fun experiment. I hope it's viral.

All my best,
Anne

-- 
Anne Collier
Editor
NetFamilyNews.org
===============
Co-Director
ConnectSafely.org

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