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1.  Social Software in Education

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2.  A Framework

Before looking at the uses and utility of some specific social software tools, I want to present a framework for understanding why social software is so important.

I contend that these tools are more than just useful ways to achieve specific educational goals— though they are very useful for that reason alone— but are actually the product of a significant and unique intersection of cultural and technological change that educators ignore at their own peril.

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3.  The Nexus

1. Accelerated technological change
2. Radical changes in students’ lives: technological mediation
3. Changes in the nature of the web from access to participation
4. Advances in learning theory that take into account “The Network”

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4.  Accelerated Technological Change

“They” keep predicting the end, but the acceleration continues exponentially:

• Moore’s Law (see 45nm technology and what is a nanometer?)

• Fiber and Storage Laws

• The Information Ecology Doubles and Doubles Again (and it’s measured in hundreds exabytes)

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5.  Our Changing Students

• Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, NetGen. It’s all good.
• We’re in it Together… kind of.
• Participatory Culture

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6.  To Web 2.0 … and Beyoooooond

• “Traditional” Social Software (blogs, wikis)
• “Web 2.0″ (del.icio.us, flickr, YouTube, MySpace)
• Immersive Environments (Second Life) and Metaverse

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7.  Learning Community

• Learning is a Social Activity (vs training)
• Learning Communities
• Beyond the Confines of the Classroom, CoP and Third Places

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8.  Emerging Pedagogy

• Connected Knowledge and Connectivism
• controversy

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9.  Examples - Blogs

• Interactive Chatting Teddies
• Mr. Watson’s Class Pages
• CILASS Student Blog

10.  Examples - Wiki

• The Collaborative Writing Project
• Teaching English Language Arts and Pink Voice
• Rhetoric and Composition

11.  Examples - Social Bookmarking

• Using Del.icio.us in Education
• Simply Del.icio.us [PDF]
• TrailFire

12.  Examples - Image and Video Sharing

• The Promise of Social Networks
• Flicktion and Memory Maps
• Poem Annotation and Annotating Art
• YouTube and the Cultural Studies Classroom
• Digital Storytelling

13.  Tools for Teachers

• Cite-U-Like
• Diigo
• Zotero
• RSS Quickstart Guide for Educators (PDF)
• 100+ Web 2.0 Ideas for Educators: A Guide to RSS and More (PDF)

14.  Intellectual Property and the Shared Commons

• Creative Commons
• Free Culture (not an adjective, the imperative!)
• Intellectual Properties