Social media, the democratisation of knowledge and physiotherapy. Can they play nice together?

• RT @dreamingspires: RT @stevesilberman: First time I’ve seen the phrase “the American Internet.” http://bit.ly/anZeIc #
• RT @barrykayton: Reading Blooms Digital Taxonomy v2.12 on Scribd http://scr.bi/cBGHrj #readcast #
• From Knowledgable to Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environments, by Michael Wesch http://bit.ly/daChh2 #
• Gilly Salmon’s 5 stage model of e-learning http://bit.ly/c1MKHB #
• Social Media Explained Visually « Learning http://bit.ly/9WcLne #
• The Ed Techie: The return on peer review. I love the idea of only reviewing for open access journals http://bit.ly/cmeKmg #
• elearnspace › The Return on Peer Review. Short post highlighting the absurdity of paying for journal access http://bit.ly/bQ6apB #
• LMS: A Quick SWOT Analysis | Interesting summary of the advantages and disadvantages of the LMS http://bit.ly/cbGMhH #
• Tagxedo – Tag Cloud generator similar to Wordle, but creates images with clouds http://bit.ly/cGSXK1 #
• RT @cspenn: Aerial photos from the BP spill on the TED blog: http://bit.ly/dADN9W Ocean on fire a crazy sight. #
• World Cup 2010 Twitter replay | Watch games as seen by activity on Twitter http://bit.ly/aOi5wq #
• Learning Journey » Blog Archive » Don’t blame the technology! http://bit.ly/auhfWO #
• 2¢ Worth » The Teaching Profession http://bit.ly/9Tpice #
• Plearn Blog. Personal Learning Environment Project. Some great posts http://bit.ly/auSVvI #
• Vygotsky research poster, from Pontydysgu. Lots of content, but can zoom in. Interesting read http://bit.ly/cjLdPO #
• Just upgraded my blog to WP 3.0 “Thelonious”. Haven’t played with it much, but new features look cool http://bit.ly/auQGdO #
• Key Social Learning Roles. Table comparing different skills required to fulfill different roles http://bit.ly/aIyfum #
• Internet stars are viral. Video on YouTube, made me smile http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi_XEAA9X6c&feature=player_embedded #
• History of the internet. Video on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&feature=player_embedded #
• Mendeley Desktop v0.9.7 Released – from the Mendeley Blog http://bit.ly/dsyUc0 #
• Absolutely loving the new collaborative editing features of Google Docs, please consider reviewing my draft article http://bit.ly/950gfG #
• Just installed Meego on my netbook, and I’m…underwhelmed. The On the + side, the UI is clean and the system is blazing fast #
• Recommended Reading for Blended Learning? | Digital Fingerprint http://bit.ly/bbZPYw #
• OER@UCT | A search for education in an online world. Another Google Search Story http://bit.ly/c4KKaG #
• Open academia. Post by Blackall on some of the issues in publication http://tinyurl.com/3ay9rld #
• Writing plain English. Nice guideline for quantifying vague statements in publications http://tinyurl.com/33e3nu8 #
• RT @umairh: Don’t be right. Be wrong. Everything transformative is wrong in the eyes of the status quo – until it becomes right. #
• @cristinacost Not sure if you found anything on CARS model yet. Try http://bit.ly/cVTrY8 (it’s actually from someone at Salford) in reply to cristinacost #
• @paulscott56 Do you know who’s responsible for tweeting from @udubs? in reply to paulscott56 #
• @paulscott56 Just downloaded Meego (http://meego.com/), thinking of switching to it for a bit. Liked Moblin but it wasn’t ready at the time in reply to paulscott56 #
• @cristinacost APA for us at UWC in SA. Only used Harvard once for an article…felt awkward after using APA for so long in reply to cristinacost #
• @cristinacost I almost never read it, unless the paper has made a big impact on me. But I follow up on authors on blogs all the time in reply to cristinacost #
• @paulscott56 Brilliant when campus is empty and the bandwidth is available. Is the UWC mirror still up? in reply to paulscott56 #
• @cristinacost Intro/Discussion first, usually that’s all I read, unless the paper is relevant for my own work. What is “author’s line”? in reply to cristinacost #
• @paulscott56 I did when it came out and have no regrets. Running stable & aesthetic improvements are nice, but otherwise nothing major in reply to paulscott56 #
• RT @cristinacost: how do you read an article? in a linear way, or do you have your on way to make sense of the text ? #
• The new Google Docs graduates. Improved real-time editing and collaboration features http://bit.ly/dBgG3w /cc @feedly #
• Over 20% of the world’s scholarly journals now open access (http://ht.ly/1YAPt). Take note SAJP and others, the time is coming #
• The Daily Maverick :: Secretly, Match blames South Africa. Great post by Ivo on how we’re getting screwed by FIFA http://bit.ly/bk4aSv #
• RT @sbestbier: No way…awesome: “Google Earth: Hiker’s Edition http://bit.ly/bob5TZ" – will be interesting for Otter trail in a few weeks #
• Incorporating a back channel in a presentation or lecture http://bit.ly/b3LOlG #
• Infographic: Facebook’s Labyrinthine Privacy Settings | Fast Company http://bit.ly/d703Sj #
• Visible Tweets – Might be nice to have running alongside a presentation (with an appropriate tag) http://bit.ly/aOLboz #
• PowerPoint Twitter Tools – integrating Twitter into your presentation http://bit.ly/dwOrv0 #
• Incorporating a back channel in a presentation or lecture http://bit.ly/b3LOlG #
• Incorporating a back channel in a presentation or lecture http://bit.ly/b3LOlG #
• Towards the networked school – interesting graphic showing convergence of “different” educational domains http://bit.ly/9aa4Vm #
• Willetts floats idea of separating teaching and examining. Comment by Stephen Downes http://bit.ly/amRrI5 #
• The Future of the Journal. Basic idea = data is linked to the final publication and annotated with metadata http://bit.ly/coBX0J #
• Collaborative and Co-operative Learning: The How and the Why. Slideshare presentation by Steve Wheeler http://bit.ly/baxJ9l #
• Post It Note Stop Motion Animation. Pretty amazing project http://bit.ly/cqLpxj #
• Some Sanity in the ‘Web Makes Us Dumber’ Debate http://bit.ly/b7v9WF #

• "Friend" profiles on Facebook can used to algorithmically infer accurate information about you http://ow.ly/1kLM7 #
• MySpace starts selling bulk user data. Potentially useful after academic analysis, but is this a slippery slope? http://ow.ly/1kLqa #
• @wesleylynch those ship launches are mental #
• RT @Tuism: RT @gangreu: @htc please stop to release new android phones and release HTC HERO 2.1 UPDATE #
• RT @EveD: OMG! I've been mentioned in same category as Clay Shirky and Mark Cuban!! How cool is THAT? Congrats Eve http://bit.ly/chwUXJ #
• RT @hfordsa: Meanness requires immediate unfollow #
• RT @courosa: Summary of danah boyd's talk at #sxsw http://is.gd/aCEXD #
• @blehet tried with 1 class last year, didn't work so well, possibly too short a time period & no opportunities for feedback #
• Will the Real Twitterati Please Stand Up? It's easy to forget that Twitter's numbers don't tell the whole story http://tinyurl.com/ybk8nso #
• Privacy Is Not Dead: Danah Boyd Talks About Privacy at SXSW http://tinyurl.com/y85sfqw #
• Improve Thinking and Learning. Good ideas for working through course content http://tinyurl.com/yz6qu8q #
• Rethinking e-Portfolios. Some interesting thoughts on reflection and issues with tools that "promote" it http://tinyurl.com/ycov2fu #
• We learn from stories and experience http://tinyurl.com/ya4qjnx #
• Teaching Professor – Characteristics of a good teacher…hard to live up to http://ow.ly/1jrgH #
• Tony Bates – Will banning laptops in class work? http://ow.ly/1joRu #
• Type with me : the rebirth of Etherpad http://typewith.me/ #
• RT @cami13: Listening to @downes speaking about The Experience of Learning http://url.ie/5cyn. #
• Dallas school districts look at different ways to use netbooks in classes http://bit.ly/b6DJrn #
• From learning to teaching (action research) FAQ http://ow.ly/1iYZS #
• xkcd: Single Ladies – amazing http://bit.ly/bCKsav #
• Geekologie: piracy http://bit.ly/btPPEG #
• The Brads – a comic about web design » Why DRM Doesn’t Work http://bit.ly/clhxtS #

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Just a quick link to update my concerns over the heinous new Facebook terms of service.  It basically grants Facebook the right to do whatever they want with your content…forever…even if you delete it…or close your account.  It does seem to be subject to your privacy settings, so if you are uploading content to the site, make sure you’re careful about what you designate as publically viewable.

The founder of Facebook has assured users that “we wouldn’t share your information in a way you wouldn’t want” and the article does urge users to “…just calm down”, so I guess it’s OK.

Here are a few links:
http://consumerist.com/5150175/facebooks-new-terms-of-service-we-can-do-anything-we-want-with-your-content-forever?skyline=true&s=x

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/17/2493500.htm

Note:  Facebook has reverted to it’s old terms of service in the wake of the public outcry.

I know that there’s quite a lot of interest in using Facebook, the social networking site, as a platform for interaction with students (1, 2). Whether that interaction is going to be on a social level (and the implications of that alone are certainly food for thought) or academically, it’s worth taking note of Facebook’s Terms of use, which states that:

“By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.“

And it’s Privacy Policy:

“Facebook may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of the Facebook service through the operation of the service (e.g., photo tags) in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalized experience. By using Facebook, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.”

I wouldn’t go so far as to say we should avoid using Facebook as a platform for engaging with students. However, I’d strongly urge anyone considering this option to be aware of the fact that Facebook is essentially a closed environment over which you have no control and it seems that the copyright of any and all content published on the site will revert to Facebook, to do with as they will.