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The VITTA 2009 Conference Slide to Open has been a busy place for the past three days.  Keynote Speakers Larry Johnson of the Horizon Report and Steve Hargadon of Classroom 2.0 were inspiring, presenting a vision for educational change.   Choice of workshops was varied and provided a balance of ICT integration topics. The session I [...]

We’ve all come to know Clay Shirky through his book Here comes everybody.  In this latest TED Talk, he explores the evolution of social networks further with the introduction of Twitter and its influence on our social infrastructure and historial outcomes.   We’ve seen this in action during this past week with the use of [...]

Personally, Twitter is very easy to love.  You can pick it up and put it down as often as you like.  When you think the central heating has exploded, within moments you hear on Twitter that it’s been an earth tremour.  It’s short and to the point.  Facebook on the other hand……. well, it’s not [...]