Hi all, I don't know about you, but I think I've just read some coywriting materials from a dot.com site. (http://www.coursefeed.com/social_learning.html) Yet, the frame of this piece is kind of interesting, and it makes me wonder, since when learning is not social, and school is not a social instituion that socialize and 'educate' people, and hence now we need some new technology to MAKE learning social. To s While I agree incorportaing the use of blackboard, facebook, wikipedia and other web-based technologies would provide different contexts and experience, and it may change the dynamics of interaction between instructor and students, I don't really see how those differences are more 'social' than the old ways. The frame is just like the Dumbest Generation book, tries so hard to point out that "things ain't what they used to be". Well, the delivery technologies do change, I'll give you that. But the social/sociological meanings of 'things' ?? regards Yu-li ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerry Mckiernan" <gerrymck@iastate.edu> To: <socnet@lists.ufl.edu>; <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 4:22 PM Subject: [Air-L] CourseFeed + Facebook = Social Learning

Colleagues/

A BreakThrough Discovery

/Gerry

CourseFeed makes online learning social. Students go to class for all kinds of reasons - to hang out with friends, to get a degree, and to learn - probably in that order. As more and more instruction goes online the *real* classroom experience is left behind. We at CourseFeed believe the best learning experiences require that groups of students be involved, engaged, and interested. The so-called online learning management systems of today are sterile data repositories that manage data transfer, not learning.

CourseFeed is .... a *mash-up* between online school content and Facebook. CourseFeed*s seamless integration with a school*s LMS ensures classmates displayed in a CourseFeed course are the same students enrolled in corresponding LMS course. Users see names and photos of their classmates and are given tools to interact - making online course work social and collaborative. CourseFeed*s alerts let students know when a change is made in the LMS course and provide single-click access to course content ... .

List of Features, Links, Graphics, And More Available At

[ http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/2008/05/coursefeed-facebook-social-... ]

OR

[ http://tinyurl.com/6pe4bs ]

Enjoy!

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011

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