SUMMARY+POINTS

22/8 guys you are amazing. back online after a bit of a sporadic weekend. I think we respond, but nothing too OTT, like my repsonse this morning :-) Be a bit crap if we ignored them (not that we would!). There's all sorts of reasons why people are slow to respond. I'll keep watching out for new threads. Sometimes these late ones have just been repsonses to questions, so don't require a response. Cheers guys :-) 22/08 (DF) Hi Kath I see you have done a brilliant job in adding our summaries in our seminar threads. Thanks for doing this, looks like we have successfully completed the seminar guys - Fantastic job. Loved working with you, its been a great experience. Hey what should we do with people that post to threads after today?
 * 1) 21/8 (DF) sorry guys, b are we still doing an END SUMMARY, or just a summary for each thread??? Not sure if this was discussed already/decided? I know we are each doing the discussion threads agreed below. Should we just compile the summaries we post to each task and place in the Overall SUMMARY - easy to do, as well as add some positive comments, thank people, etc etc... Thoughts?

20/8 (DF) hi guys, yay we made it through, almost done....just the summary now - I thought we could do this in here??? Add in the main idea/s that were addressed through discussion and task responses. Are you hapy to work on this the next two-three days? Should we aim to post it up Sun /Mon? Great work guys. ;)

13/08 (GB): guys do we want to take responsibility for one task each to share the load? Melz if you've started task one, how bout Kath does task 2, and I do task 3? Also, Melz...love your posts on task 1 and 2 in stream. Very thought provoking :-) (DF) thanks gab ;) - i'm trying to facilitate deeper discussion etc...trying!

(dF) : sounds okay to me, but i would appreciate both of your careful eyes, just at least scanning what I add for this task summary, in case you spot something of great relevance that I miss!!! thanks guys. Yeah gab the discussions are going well, i just want to try and reflect on our readings a bit more....will try to add some more reference to these in tonight.

(DF):Hi guys, thought this page could come in handy for adding main thoughts/issues that arise throughout the seminar discussions. We can edit these into our SUMMARY / CONCLUSION statement at the end. (GB) great idea :-)

//"This very face book site set up by seminar one design team, encapsulates the main benefit of any social network. It immediately connects people with similar interests and one obviously similar goal.... successful completion of the course, ‘Trends in e-Learning’. In an educational context, social networking obviously facilitates communication between learners who are engaged in a commonly shared learning situation. Posting a point of view whether it be academic or personal, potentially initiates a domino effect in responses and with that comes connectability//." (By Lois Nunes) (Gb: great little 'soundbite')
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(DF) 12/8 - I think there needs to be a rather focused approach at incorporating these softwares into education programs rather than a word of mouth. Teachers are left standing in the daark at times, with no idea of which way to turn or where to begin.

safety measures /concerns with the relationship between trust and mobile devices and 'unsupervised web use?" Is it impossible to monitor? Social networks as distracting privacy issues, why not use STREAM (too formal for yound kiddies)

everyone experiencing or has had experience on social networks some good, some too lazy to use. Mostly positive. Some concerns for security due to lack of knowledge of how to use. An implication for teachers also. Leah noted " Social Networking is not about connecting people to computers but about connecting people to people." Task one response. Alison noted "the importance of having clear objectives in the use of any educational technology."task one
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