Wow, a week got by me and I didn't get a lot posted.
Here is an article about how the popularity of social networks and the popularity of games are starting to combine. It is interesting because many of these games are similar to the ones that our students are creating in Globaloria. There is a large market for friends getting together online through Facebook or MySpace and playing cards or scrabble.
Just imagine Globaloria getting to the place where we are coming together online and playing collaborative games. We really aren't that far away. We have some great games.
Update: Here is another story from the gaming industry. It looks like there is a lot of investment going into these games.
Showing posts with label social bookmarking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social bookmarking. Show all posts
Friday, February 15, 2008
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Social Bookmarking: Managing information within Globaloria
Do you bookmark your favorite web sites using "Favorites" within Internet Explorer?
It is really useful, when you are in your classroom or maybe an office you mark all the websites that you want to go to or need to go to to get your work done or teach a class. Of course when you leave that computer, you no longer have access to the bookmark and what if you want to send that bookmark to a friend? You have to send an email for each bookmark?
Well, there is a solution for managing a lot of bookmarks and it can lead to a lot more then just having a list of your favorite links.
Social Bookmarks can be captured through services such as del.icio.us or others that allow you to keep your bookmarks on the web, access them from any web-connected computer, and search for sites with related topics.
Here is a link from my account with all the Globaloria-related web sites.
And just because they do such a wonderful job explaining things, here is a video explaining the concept.
After you check this out, let me know what you think. Remember, it is just as easy to use social bookmarking then to use favorites and you get a lot of benefits. If you are really interested, I wrote a post back in June on Social Bookmarking for Learning at my personal blog.
It is really useful, when you are in your classroom or maybe an office you mark all the websites that you want to go to or need to go to to get your work done or teach a class. Of course when you leave that computer, you no longer have access to the bookmark and what if you want to send that bookmark to a friend? You have to send an email for each bookmark?
Well, there is a solution for managing a lot of bookmarks and it can lead to a lot more then just having a list of your favorite links.
Social Bookmarks can be captured through services such as del.icio.us or others that allow you to keep your bookmarks on the web, access them from any web-connected computer, and search for sites with related topics.
Here is a link from my account with all the Globaloria-related web sites.
And just because they do such a wonderful job explaining things, here is a video explaining the concept.
Social Bookmarking in Plain English
After you check this out, let me know what you think. Remember, it is just as easy to use social bookmarking then to use favorites and you get a lot of benefits. If you are really interested, I wrote a post back in June on Social Bookmarking for Learning at my personal blog.
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