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From http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2008/08/06/study_facebook_improves_commun.aspx

"In a recent study conducted by University of Minnesota's Christine Greenhow, a learning technologies researcher from the College of Education and Human Development, students using social networking Web sites are practicing the 21st century skills needed to be successful in today's society.

ETS has a new hot teams paper on Social Ratings at http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/hot-team/hot-team-social-ratings/

Social rating tools are those which allow users to rate content of items in a "repository" (e.g. a book on Amazon, a song on iTunes, a blog news post). Other users can rely on the aggregate results to determine what the overall opnion of an item. For instance, I may pick a week-end movie based on reactions from other viewers on opening weekend. For me this ties in to the aggregate decision making models discussed in The Wisdom of Crowds

If you have examples, send them to Alan at the link below! A great guy with a great idea.

http://cogdogblog.com/?p=2307

Definition

What's a Wiki?

We might not be quite ready for prime time in terms of wikis...but there are two Penn State options that may help.

Wikispaces (Faculty/Staff only) - https://wikispaces.psu.edu/
This is a fairly robust ITS pilot and is being used by several ITS projects. The main audience is faculty and staff, but you can open your wiki space to students via UMGs (User Managed Groups)

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We are starting a glossary of common technology terms with links to more information as appropriate. Thanks to the TLT Symposium Team for letting us repurpose this glossary.

Web 2.0 Terms