Social media - some interesting tools..

What exactly is social media?
ICT technology
Web 2.0 tools
Allows anyone, anywhere connection with others to form networks and communities
Create, collaborate, share content, share action, share software

Some useful material on how people have used social media can be found at http://c4lpt.co.uk/handbook/examples.html and
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wikis/etl/index.php/tools

With the use of social media, the boundary between formal and informal learning is blurring. See http://bdld.blogspot.com/2010/02/driving-informal-with-formal.html

Some tools to explore:

1. Voicethread for collaborative presentations
2. Stumbleupon / Diigo for social bookmarking; includes tagging, rating and comments on specific webpages
3. Screentoaster for screen recording
4. Teacher tube videos
5. Technoratti for blog searches
6. Quiz makers – Podquiz maker pr iQuiz maker (quizzes for mobile devices)
7. Audacity for podcasts
8. Elluminate flash presentations