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= Personal Learning Environments and Social Networking = Team Members go to your assigned team page. = TEAM A = = TEAM B = = TEAM C =


 * In-Forming ** - // Flattener #9, p 176-185 //

Google and other search engines are the prime example. "Never before in the history of the planet have so many people-on their own-had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people", writes Friedman.


 * Overview of topic **
 * Google: a great flattener
 * Searching, information, knowledge
 * How does searching fit into the concept of collaboration? (Friedman calls it In-forming)
 * In-forming: The ability to build and deploy your own personal supply chain - a supply chain of information, knowledge and entertainment, without having to go to the library or the movie theatre or through network TV. It is searching for knowledge It is about seeking like-minded people and communities
 * Ideas related to this topic **
 * Personal and Professional Learning Environments (PLE, VLE)
 * Search engines: comparative study
 * Social networking and Web 2.0
 * Information has become a business: eg Google
 * Personal Learning Environments and Social Networking, ideas to get started **
 * Provide an historical account of the development of social networking and PLE's
 * Discuss the approaches taken locally and globally to the use of social networking tools for education
 * Provide current examples of how business and education use Web 2.0 tools to connect and deliver/find information