37. Social networking is an online approximation of real world relationships. But it is also much more than that. What social networks are and what that might mean for the web in general and education in particular we have yet to discover…
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44. Some social software tools Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/ Citeulike (academic social bookmarking socftware) http://www.citeulike.org/ SocialLearn presentation (Martin Weller) http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2008/02/the-sociallearn.html Dipity (timeline creation software) http://www.dipity.com/ Google maps http://maps.google.com/ Facebook http://www.facebook.com
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