Building Community Online

This material stems from the presentation “Building Community Online with Social Software,” first offered June 6, 2007 Summer Faculty Institute and subsequently on October 23, 2007. See also the notes for the workshop “Fostering a Sense of Community in Online Classes” (March 2008).

This presentation is also available at SlideShare.

• Susan Connell 2004 Literature Review ”Uses for Social Software in Education” at http://soozzone.com/690review.htm.

• Eva Kaplan-Leiserson, We-Learning: Social Software and E-Learning, Dec 2003. Part 2 from 2004.

• Social Software and Learning (Future Lab)

• Blogs and Wikis (Bemidji State University)

• When Blog Meets Wiki (Bemidji State University)

• Stephen Downes, E-Learning 2.0 (2006)

• Learning With Social Software (Australian Flexible Learning Framework, 2007)

• Christopher Allen, Tracing the Evolution of Social software (Life with Alacrity, 2004)

Start playing with Google Apps, including Google Docs and Blogger, here.

Blogger (set up a blog)

Xannga (set up a blog)

Live Journal (set up a blog)

• ”7 things You Should Know About Blogs” from Educause

• Laurie Armstrong and Marsha Berry, Blogs as Electronic Learning Journals

• Anne Bartlett-Bragg, Blogging to Learn

• Sharon Stoerger, Blogging in Education (annotated bibliography 2006)

• Jeremy B Williams and Joanne Jacobs, Exploring the Use of Blogs as Learning Spaces in the Higher Education Sector

PBWiki (set up a wiki)

Wiki Spaces (set up a wiki)

• 7 Things You Should Know About Wikis (Educause)

• Matt Barton, Embrace the Wiki Way!

• Renee Fountain, Wiki Pedagogy

• Wiki Writing, Wiki Reading (Chronicle of Higher Education Forum)

• Jon Udell, Heavy Metal Umlaut: the movie (screencast)

del.icio.us (del.icio.us bookmarking)

Digg (Digg bookmarking)

Furl (Furl bookmarking)

• 7 Things You Should Know about Social Bookmarking (Educause)

• Social Bookmarking Tools (I): A General Review and Part II: A Case Study

• Sites to See: Social Bookmarking (Education World)

• Liz Lawley, Social Consequences of Social Tagging

• Robin Good, Social Bookmarking Services And Tools: The Wisdom Of Crowds That Organizes The Web

• Jon Udell, Language Evolution in del.icio.us (screencast)

Flickr (Flickr photo sharing)

YouTube (YouTube video sharing)

Slideshare (Slideshare slideshow sharing)

AIM (AIM instant messaging)

Yahoo IM (Yahoo instant messenger)

Skype (Skype internet phone and messenger)

Clipmarks (Clipmarks web clipping)

Diigo (Diigo web clipping)

Google Notebook (Google notebook and clipping)

i-lighter (i-ligher web clipping)

• Five Ways to Mark Up the Web (TechCrunch)

• 7 Apps for Online Note-taking