The Social in Social Web Tools

Characteristics of Social Web Tools

Easy creation
Potential for collaboration
Avenue for feedback and conversation
Open Content (David Wiley's 4Rs)
1. Reuse – the right to reuse the content in its unaltered / verbatim form
2. Revise – the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself
3. Remix – the right to combine the original or revised content with other content to create something new
4. Redistribute – the right to make and share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others

Flickr image: GaryHayes

Uses and Benefits

Social media tools allow you to support your student's learning in ways that have not been possible before. Students can more easily connect and collaborate with each other, or have easy access to timely and relevant news items, blog posts or other web resources relevant to the content they are studying. Below are some ways in which you could use social web tools in a classroom:

Group authoring on a topic

Blogs
Wikis
Collaborative Writing Tools

Easy and quick way to make course resources available

Blogs
Wikis
Feed Reading
Social Bookmarking
Media Sharing

Peer review/editing

Wikis
Blogs

Student generated resource development

Microblogging
Social Networks
Instant Messaging

Presentations

Online Presentation Tools
Media Sharing

Tools

Image by: Brian Solis & JESS3

All Tools

Wikis
Weblogs or Blogs
Microblogs
Online Presentation Tools
Instant Messaging
Visual Organizers
Social Bookmarking
Social Networking
Collaborative Writing
Feed Reading
Media Sharing
References

Things to Think About

Be social
Participate in the community
Experiment, Play, and Try Again
What works for you
- SECTIONS Model
It's about you, me and everyone else

Resources

UBC Services

Blogs: blogs.ubc.ca
Wikis: wik.ubc.ca
Microblogging: blogs.ubc.ca using the [p2theme.com P2 theme].
Media Sharing: Kaltura (coming soon)
eLearning at UBC