Social Media Tools and Techniques: What Every Educator Needs to Know
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Frances G. Smith,Ed.D,CVE fgsmith@vcu.edu
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
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Delicious Account | Facebook| VCU TTAC AT Blog | Social Wiki
Welcome! I've been fortunate to be a member of a faculty
learning community (FLC) at Virginia Commonwealth University for
the past 2 years. As we continue our research this third year, I
continue to be informed by our collective efforts.
This
wiki has been developed to follow presentations and discussions
I've been sharing about the growth and power of social media.
Once you've had a chance to explore this wiki, please consider sharing
your thoughts and comments by posting
a comment on the social media tools blog!
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"Groundswell - a social trend in which people use technologies to get the things they need from each other, rather than from traditional institutions or corporations" (Li, C. & Bernoff, J. (2008). Groundwell: Winning in a world transformed by social technologies, Boston: MA Harvard Business Press.
"The web is now a participatory environment that can engage all youth in community building without the limits imposed by geographical boundaries" (National Center on Technology Innovation (January, 2008). The power of social media to promote assistive and learning technologies, Washington, DC: National Center for Technology Innovation
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Social media tools include:
The Web 2.0
Perceived as a trend in current World Wide Web technology and web design that provides "read-and-write", participatory access to new online technologies such as blogs, wikis, social networking sites, and folksonomies.
User created content
An example of a blog with multiple user contributions: http://www.assistivetechnology.vcu.edu
Socially driven
An example of a wiki with multiple user created content: http://UDL4Literacy Pbwiki
All About Sharing
An video depicting what social networking entails through, "Social networking by Common Craft", http://www.youtube.com/v/6a_KF7TYKVc&hl=en
All about tagging
It's all about tagging. Here's an example of a tag cloud for the most popular tags used on Delicious, a social bookmarking site (http://www.delicious.com):
Tags are used to categorize by the frequency of their use and appeal.
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