Social Networking Workshop

Social Networks and Online Learning

Web 2.0 sites for us and our students
Wikipedia list of social networking sites

Organizing and Sharing –
RSS aggregators that share the collection of feeds you read: Bloglines, FeedRaider, Netvibes
(Lisa’s Bloglines –> Blog roll; I read them in FeedRaider)
Bookmarks — organizing the wealth of the web through tagging: Del.icio.us, Ma.gnolia
(Social tagging as side-effect of personal use)
Start Pages — organizing ourselves (Personal Learning Landscapes) — Protopage, Pageflakes
Blogs we read — sharing links to blogs can be done from within a blog and/or Bloglines, Technorati, Google Blogsearch
Images — Flickr
Video — YouTube: Web 2.0 video

Socializing — meeting and connecting with others
Student spaces: MySpace, Bebo
Online instructors at California community colleges: @ONE Moodle site (also see Lisa’s blogroll)
Personal connections: 43Things

Writing for everyone — blogging
A blog can be a whole website (Huffington Post), students can have blogs (Blogger, edublogs)
For educators: edublogs
Wordpress, LiveJournal
Brad’s blog

Collaborating with wikis
Lisa’s sample wiki from San Elijo class

Virtual Reality
Second Life

2 Responses to “Social Networking Workshop”

  1. Hi Lisa,

    thank you for adding my blog Onlinesapiens to your blogroll.

    I have your blog on my feed reader. I also use and recommend FeedRaider and also GreatNews, desktop feed reader.

    I keep my bookmarks on del.icio.us

    I am using Explode and MyBlogLog to find and network with new friends.

    You can also use del.icio.us for sharing bookmarks and networking.
    Lean how to use Del.icio.us in Education (you don’t need to use Firefox)

    Finally I would like to recommend ELGG’s Eduspaces for blogging and networking.

    I hope that you enjoy my recommendations

    Eduardo

  2. Hi Lisa,

    I recently found that Ning social communities:

    Library 2.0, with 800+ members
    Classroom 2.0, with 140+ members

    are great for networking and making new friends. I am just a member of both communities

    Eduardo