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Social Media Tools and Techniques: What Every Educator Needs to Know

Frances G. Smith, Ed.D., CVE

Blog:  http://www.recognizingdifferences.com

 

 Delicious Account | Facebook| VCU TTAC AT Blog | Social Wiki| Twitter | Flickr |  Ning Community Member | LinkedIn

      
 

 

Welcome!  I've been fortunate to be a member of a faculty learning community (FLC) at Virginia Commonwealth University for the past 3 years. As we continue our research we 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!

 

The Complete Web 2.0 Directory



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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):

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

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