Tweet Are you on Facebook? Here’s a question about using Facebook as an extension of work or classroom learning. Is it ethical to force people (over whom you have some power & authority) to use Facebook, a proprietary platform that tracks users & sells their data to third parties? Communities Technology MORE >>

Blogs allow this asymmetry but social networks like Facebook don’t. To me, this represents a perfect example of a media literacy issue: Twitter is one of a growing breed of part-technological, part-social communication media that require some skills to use productively. Tags: Learning Technology So is the Internet. MORE >>

I’ve written before about Serena Software’s use of Facebook as their Intranet, as has Bill Ives. Impetus for Facebook as the Intranet. How did you decide to make the apparently radical switch over to Facebook as the Intranet? technologies and approaches to getting work done - is this accurate? in the process. MORE >>

Turkey is the third largest country in the world on Facebook. Coming from almost nothing two years ago, Turkey now has close to 14 million Facebook users, overtaking France and Canada earlier this year to be the third largest country on Facebook after the US and UK. Source : CheckFacebook. Source : Alexa. Source : comScore. MORE >>

2010) "Facebook as a formal instructional environment." British Journal of Educational Technology , 41 (6), E146–E149. This has a brief evaluation of an intervention using Facebook as the focus for a class, including for assessment. Learning, Media and Technology , 34(2), 141–155. Meek, J., Wellens, J. & Hooley, T. MORE >>