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Ning is a social networking site created in 2004 by Marc Andreessen, the founder of the Netscape browser and Gina Bianchini.

The main features of Ning are:

it is easy to set up (you can be up and running in a couple of minutes)
it is free (although you can pay to have the Google ads removed and [...]

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If you haven’t attended an online conference in Second Life, this 3.5 minute video describes the what went on at the JISC Online Conference 2007 Showcase Session on the Eduserve Island (144, 34, 29). This event took place on Tuesday 12th June.
In it, Andy Powell (Art Fossett in SL) from the Eduserve Foundation describes [...]

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This presentation from Lawrie Phipps was the keynote for the University of Bradford’s Learning, teaching and assessment conference.
He opened his talk by describing how technology had changed his life - online banking, Flickr, blogging, online collaboration, online research, webcast presentation to 15 countries, online teaching.
Universities have a social space (Facebook), formal space (WebCT) and private [...]

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This is the second online conference organised by the Learning Technologies Centre at the University of Manitoba.
The aim of this conference is to explore the trends impacting on education - in schools, colleges and universities, and corporate training.
Identifying what these trends are and how they will shape the future of education will be what [...]

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