Social Software

Creating opportunities for building a virtual community, social software facilitates interaction, collaboration and connection among users. Examples include

• blogs

• wikis

• social bookmarking services

• web clipping services

• media sharing

Teaching a Distance education course using educational social software (Virtual Canuck)

PLE’s versus LMS: Are PLEs ready for Prime time? (Virtual Canuck)

Teaching Social Software with Social Software: A report (Ulises Ali Mejias, Ideant)

Tracing the Evolution of Social Software (Life With Alacrity)

Uses for Social Software in Education (Soozzone)

Social Software (Wikipedia)