On TrDev, we've been discussing the sharing of links via forum posts vs. social bookmarking tools such as del.icio.us. I've discussed this before: Social Bookmarking Tricks for Group Learning Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 She lets folks know to use the del.icio.us With del.icio.us (and better yet Yahoo MyWeb), you can go back and find them later. Tools But it might be worth looking at how Nancy White has been doing this. See her recent post about Second Wave Adoption and her follow-up post on Time to Experiment. Why is that important? MORE >>

Social Media and Social Network Educational Infographics. Tags: Presentations Blogging Delicious Facebook PLE PLN Presentation Social Bookmark Social Network Technology Twitter Thank you to Gabriela Grosseck for bring this presentation to my attention, “Creating a Personal Learning Network&#. Creating a Personal Learning Network by Corinne Weisgerber. Related posts: PLE / Personal Learning Environment: What's yours like? Pedagogical Foundations For Personal Learning. MORE >>

Social Bookmarking Social Networking Wikis RSSAs background for an upcoming presentation, I wanted to create a page that provides background resources that explain various eLearning 2.0 tools. immediately thought of the Common Craft videos. I've embedded them below. Are there other good introductory resources? How about for blogs? MORE >>

Matthew 5:13 (New Testament) The Delicious social bookmarking site used to be one of my favourite social media tools. The tagging facility was second to none, and it was easy to see who else was interested in the same links as you, and then discover what other links they had bookmarked that might have passed you by. Since the launch of new Delicious this week, the Twitterverse and blogosphere have been buzzing with scathing commentary and complaints, stories of lost bookmarks, mislaid tagging bundles, personal networks that have simply disappeared. MORE >>

Here are some reflections on using an online noticeboard tool and a collaborative bookmarking tool as part of a learning design process. This is pretty unscientific process which I described in the post Choosing social media/web 2.0 So that Isobel and I could aggregate what we found, I decided to use a collaborative bookmarking service. My preferred bookmarking service has swung back and forth from [link] to [link] a couple of times. Its a pure bookmarking tool and adding something is very easy. last ran it in May, 2011 and reflected on it here. used [link]. MORE >>