“People tend to be loyal to one social-networking site, though that relationship is often fleeting, says Martin Weller, educational-technology Professor at the Britain-based Open University.”
Berkeley’s on YouTube. American University’s hoping to get on iTunes. George Mason professors have created an online research tool, a virtual filing cabinet for scholars. And with a few clicks on Yale’s Web site, anyone can watch one of the school’s most popular philosophy professors sitting cross-legged on his desk, talking about death.
“Professors are the latest YouTube stars. The popularity of their appearances on YouTube and other video-sharing sites may end up opening up the classroom and making teachingâ€â€?which once took place behind closed doorsâ€â€?a more public art.”
Chronicle of Higher Education
“Forget Second Life. The real virtual world gold rush centers on the grammar-school set.” New York Times
“Facebook’s network of 58 million active users and its status as the sixth-most-trafficked Web site in the United States have made it an irresistible subject for many types of academic research.”
“Social-Network Web Sites Inundate Us With Connections, and That Can Be Alienating”
“Is blogging the means by which the ‘feminine’ voices previously excluded from public discourse and kept hidden in the ‘private’ sphere, can now be released? Is blogging a means of affirming the public character of private practices, ask Kambouri and Hatzopoulos.”
The National School Boards Association has released a study on the student use of social networking and other web 2.0 tools. Link (PDF)
Andy Carvin has an interview with the authors of the report.