Social Media & Web 2.0 for Learning Website (Still Under Construction) Social Media & Web 2.0 Welcome to this ’Crash Course’ (still under construction) to get you started with social media and web 2.0 This presentation and site provides all the resources shared during the ' Social Media & Web 2.0 Site (Workshop) Contents RSS & Curation Blogging Twitter Facebook Wikis OER/OCW Other Tools WORKSHOP? Isn't that what Social Media and Web 2.0 for Learning View more presentations from Zaid Alsagoff. WELCOME! for learning and teaching. MORE >>

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 11/07/2010 Facebook for e-Learning Facebook objective is " to help you connect and share with the people in your life ". At the same time, Facebook is one of the fastest growing social networks that helps people communicate efficiently with their friends, families, coworkers, and classmates. 50% of Facebooks active users log on to Facebook in any given day. As a result, my question is how can we use Facebook for e-Learning? MORE >>

Regular readers will know I have an interest in using, and understanding how we can use, Social Media and Social Networks with students and learning. It is also about using the different tools and techniques for learning and Social Media and Social Networks are a valuable source of learning materials from many different cultures and backgrounds. Which is why this book is of interest to me – ‘ Using Social Media in the Classroom ‘ by Megan Poore. Megan closes by saying that social media “rewards both courage and enterprise. MORE >>

The recent arrival of a new social network in the form of Google+ has given cause for reflection from some long-serving social media users and advocates. Cammy Bean describes how she has been Taking a TechFast to relieve her symptoms of SoMeFat (social media fatigue), which has been "heightened now with the additional disorder of Multiple Social Network Disorder (Facebook, Twitter, and now Google+ to keep up with!)." After recreating my online social network ( largely based on blogs from early 2000) in Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and Quora, G+ was a chore. MORE >>

We like to hear from notable people in the eLearning space, especially their views about social media and eLearning. Christopher Pappas is the Founder and Owner of the Instructional Design and eLearning Professionals’ Group (29K+), which is the largest online community of professionals involved in the eLearning Industry at LinkedIn. Christopher: Although I meet the most professionals via LinkedIn, I am 100% sure that we meet online via Facebook. The truth is that I do not normally use Facebook for professional networking. of founding a LinkedIn Group? MORE >>