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10 Social Media Tools For Learning

The eLearning Coach

The collaborative feature lets participants get in the act with capabilities for marking up documents as well using as a shared, multipage whiteboard. Dimdim has an open source version so developers can integrate it with other software. It also integrates with a few open source eLearning tools.

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The key to understanding what’s going on

Jay Cross

The pendulum had swung far in the opposite direction when we had flower children, itinerant hippies, anti-war protests, and, more recently, the Open Source movement and the proliferation of blogs. Boyd defines social software more broadly as the sum of these categories: Support for conversation online : Instant messaging, e-room, etc.