A big part of setting up an open, online course (e.g. MOOC), or gearing up for a Personal Learning Network (PLN) is the selection of meaning social media tools. In order to get an overview of the big families in social media, I started to make a list for my own comprehension and future selection. A added some examples to each group, but those are just the ones that immediately came to mind.
If you see that I have missed a group or set of social media tools, feel free to let me know.
Social Media Tool
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Why use it + implementation
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Example with possible extra
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Idea and content sharing
Microblogging
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Twitter
allows the learner group to share short messages with one another, linking it
to more content.
Real life: educators have twitter meetings where they discuss
a particular educational issue (#lrnchat)
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Extra: using a hashtag (#) to keep on track of specific
topics. Look here for all tweets regarding mLearning (updated life).
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Social Networking
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Building a network of people that can add to the knowledge creation of
the learner.
Real life: people with mutual interest in management joining up in a group to
discuss strategies (LinkedIn)
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Extra: LinkedIn
has a nice feature enabling you to send Q/A to your professional network. A
nice way to meaningfully stay in touch.
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Social bookmarking
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Social
bookmarking allows the learner group to find bookmarked items related to the
topic at hand gathered in one place.
Real life: organizing online resources relevant to your
learner group (e.g. augmented learning).
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Multimedia sharing
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Sharing
visuals, audio and/or movies to give others an in-depth view on what is
happening.
Real life: health care workers sharing X-ray pictures and how
they diagnosed it (Telemedicine).
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Extra: make sure
you choose a good copyright, you might want to look at Creative Commons
licenses.
Extra: geotagging, sharing the location of the object of
the video, audio or picture that is shared. This metadata can later be used
for additional learning tracks or research.
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Blogs
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To reflect on what is learned, or what the learner thinks is of
importance.
Keeping a learning archive or personal learning environment (PLE).
Real life: engineers keeping track of complex issues they encounter in the field
and how they solve it. These accounts can later be used in similar
situations.
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A special mention must be made about Posterous. This great blogging
tool enables you and any group member to e-mail content to a variety of
social media tools: Flickr, Facebook, twitter… Try it out, it is fun AND easy!.
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Virtual meetings
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Virtual
meeting tools allow synchronous communication to take place. Great for collaborative
discussions/brainstorming.
Real life: sales protocols are provided asynchronously and
learners need to go through them. Afterwards virtual meetings are set-up to
roll play what is learned and discuss the protocols.
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Big Blue Button (open source project)
Wiziq(free for
basic use)
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Sharing presentations
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Sharing presentations offer an immediate way of enhancing knowledge on
a certain subject.
Real life: this can be used for assignments. Where learners are asked to build a
presentation, share it and discuss each other’s work (constructively).
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Collaborative reference managers
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For those learners interested in research or formal accreditation,
Real life: easily access citations, building reference lists, creating
literature reviews.
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Collaborative mindmapping
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Planning or structuring thoughts, future steps, content.
Real life: teachers coming together to set up a new curriculum, collaboratively
building the course architecture.
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Augmented reality additions
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Great for adding authentic information to geo-located spaces.
Real life: seeing archeological history unfold itself over centuries, simply by
looking at your mobile device.
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