25 October 2008 - 14:01Social Media Classroom

A free system to create social media in the classroom - available to download - that includes “integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets , and video commenting are the first set of tools. … curricular material: syllabi, lesson plans, resource repositories, screencasts and videos.” It’s based on Drupal, which I find difficult to use (setup and customisation expecially) from a techincal point of view, but most of this is done for you here. [link]

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  1. D’log :: blogging since 2000 » The Social Media Classroom says;
    26 Oct 2008 - 7:59

    [...] Bounds spots a new teaching resource called The Social Media Classroom. It’s Drupal-based (which I, along [...]

  2. Si says;
    26 Oct 2008 - 13:31

    Moodle is also well worth a look if you’re into this kind of thing. I’ve been digging in a lot lately.

    It has an insane variety of plug-ins for its modular model and a massive, active community behind it.

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