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ocial media and the participatory web have had a greater impact on our world beyond just how we connect and socialize with our friends online.
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Social media and the participatory web have had a greater impact on our world beyond just how we connect and socialize with our friends online.
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Students need a classroom where learning is a more participatory experience and where the tools they use in their everyday lives - social networking, videos, chat, aren't checked at the door.
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Social Media Classroom: New Web 2.0 Platform for Education
Written by Sarah Perez / October 17, 2008 12:15 PM / 25 Comments
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The Social Media Classroom (SMC) is a new project started by Howard Rheingold which offers an open-source Drupal-based web service to teachers and students for the purpose of introducing social media into the classroom. The service includes tools like forums, blogs, wikis, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets, video conferencing, and more. The SMC is more than just a collection of new media tools repurposed for educational use, though. The end goal of the service is to move education away from being a unidirectional delivery of knowledge to become a more collaborative learning process.
Why A Social Media Classroom?
The SMC is meant to supplement, not replace, the face-to-face interaction that occurs in the classroom. According to Howard, when he tried to introduce new media tools into his first Wi-Fi-equipped classroom, he was surprised by the blank looks on so many of the students' faces when he told them that he expected them to blog and edit the wiki. Since he was so familiar with the power of Web 2.0 tools and was surrounded by people who felt the same, he hadn't realized how many college students didn't actually have experience using these types of 21st century tools. This sparked an idea to build a new social media platform designed specifically for use in an educational setting. And thus, the Social Media Classroom was born.
What's Included
The SMC includes all the familiar social media tools from blogs to RSS to videos and wikis and even microblogging. All are i -
Toby FischerThanks @billyfischer for this great link. This may be a great tool to use in schools. I'm off to check it out if it isn't blocked
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20 Oct 08
Sheila FrancisThe service includes tools like forums, blogs, wikis, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets, video conferencing, and more.
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Thomas Galvezan open-source Drupal-based web service to teachers and students for the purpose of introducing social media into the classroom. The service includes tools like forums, blogs, wikis, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets, video conferencin
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Social Media Classroom: New Web 2.0 Platform for Education
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Paul KellyThe Social Media Classroom (SMC) is a new project started by Howard Rheingold which offers an open-source Drupal-based web service to teachers and students for the purpose of ...
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19 Oct 08
Darcy GoshornA New Web 2.0 Platform For Education - repurposed web 2.0 stuff for educational use
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18 Oct 08
J. D. EbberlyThe Social Media Classroom (SMC) is a new project started by Howard Rheingold which offers an open-source Drupal-based web service to teachers and students for the purpose of introducing social media into the classroom. The service includes tools like forums, blogs, wikis, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets, video conferencing, and more.
SarahPerez ReadWriteWeb classroom media education social web2.0 rss microblogging widgets videoconferencing whiteboards socialbookmarks forums chat
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17 Oct 08
Debby KThe Social Media Classroom (SMC) is a new project started by Howard Rheingold which offers an open-source Drupal-based web service to teachers and students for the purpose of introducing social media into the classroom.
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Antoine DupinThe Social Media Classroom (SMC) is a new project started by Howard Rheingold which offers an open-source Drupal-based web service to teachers and students for the purpose of introducing social media into the classroom.
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