[LM_NET] Summer FNO - Social Networking

[Jamieson McKenzie <fromnowon@EARTHLINK.NET>]

 From Now On - The educational technology journal

Vol 17|No 6|Summer 2008

 From Now On offers an article and a cartoon this month.

1. The Summer Cartoon: Virtual Friends
http://www.listcast.com/rd?http://fno.org/sum08/sumcartoon.html
(fno.org/sum08/sumcartoon.html)

Social Networking is all the rage, but life online is not always the  
real thang.

"Fakebook" is a term defined by the Urban Dictionary as "Adding  
friends to Facebook who you don't particularly like, socialize with or  
think you are friends with."

2. Beyond Mere Gathering: Turning Social Networking into Collaboration  
and Synergy             
http://www.listcast.com/rd?http://fno.org/sum08/synergy.html
(fno.org/sum08/synergy.html)
By Jamie McKenzie

Proponents of Web 2.0 and social networking often make claims for the  
benefits of this popular (supposedly new) phenomenon that include the  
likelihood of collaboration and group problem-solving as students from  
around the world team to take on important challenges. While  
collaboration might result if the activities are structured in ways  
that produce those results, decades of school and corporate efforts  
suggest that quality is unlikely to result from throwing folks  
together in groups while leaving issues of process to happenstance.  
This article outlines ways to increase the productivity of groups,  
whether they be face-to-face or remotely connected through Web 2.0.
Jamie McKenzie
Editor
 From Now On (http://fno.org)
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