Social Software in the Classroom

Social Software Home
Blogs and Blogging
Podcasts and Podcasting/Vidcasts
Wiki's
del.icio.us, FURL, and Online Bookmarking
Flickr and Other Photo Sharing Sites
Content Management Systems
Social Software in the Classroom–PD Class

Course Schedule

Week 1-Introduction to RSS, Blogs, Aggregators
Opening Presentation in Quicktime Opening Outline PDF

Assignments: Read assigned articles, set up bloglines aggregator, set up blog for class

Week 2-Blogs, Wiki's, & del.icio.us

Assignments: Continue posting to class blog. Begin posting to your own blog. Add an item to one of the wiki pages. Edit someone else's item. Begin using del.icio.us to list websites of interest.

Week 3-Podcasts & Vidcasts

Week 4-Instant Messaging, Flickr, Furl

Week 5-Course Management Software, Wrap-Up