Alan Cann - using FriendFeed as a personal learning environment for science students in HE

Three months ago I started to use FriendFeed for lightweight blogging, telling myself I would use if for 3 months and decide whether or not to stick with it. The three months is up and on balance I am impressed with it - in particular at the scope for people to comment on posts, and the ability to pull RSS feeds into and out of FreindFeed. I now include some of the FriendFeed posts I write in the emailed version Fortnightly Mailing. (My main plea is for other users to be selective about what they pull into their own FriendFeed, and, in particular, not to include stuff from Twitter if they are Twitter users.)

Today, through FriendFeed, I came across this interesting piece by Alan Cann Leveraging FriendFeed for authentic science education. Excerpt:

"Using the Facebook paradigm, they will create a Friendfeed account, subscribe to RSS feeds, bookmark and share items and build a network. We will use FriendFeed as a feedback channel to guide them. Assuming FriendFeed is still around, this should work much better than our past approach to building a PLE. (They'll also use other tools, but their PLE will be based around FriendFeed, which will be the main communication channel, vertically and horizontally)."

Alan's "assuming FriendFeed is still around" comment stems partly from the fact that just after I started to use it, FriendFeed was acquired by Facebook. Who knows what Facebook's plans are for the product.......

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Thanks Seb. You may also be interested in the follow-up I was asked to make: How I Learned to Love FriendFeed - The Director's Cut.