Social Software for Writing

Workshop for NITLE LWDA April 2008

Social Bookmarking: Storing, Organizing, FindingPopular sites• del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/)• diigo (http://www.diigo.com/buzz/hot)• ma.gnolia (http://ma.gnolia.com/)

Scholarly sites• http://www.scholar.com/• http://citeulike.org• http://connotea.org

Using Social Bookmarking in Writing 

Writing collaboratively: Using Wiki Technology• Go to nitless.wikispaces.com• Start writing!

Using Collaborative Tools

Writing Collectively: Blogs

• Blog Searcho http://blogsearch.google.como http://technorati.como http://www.icerocket.com/o http://blogpulse.com

• Edublogs (http://edublogs.org)• Blogger (http://www.blogger.com)• Wordpress.com (http://www.wordpress.com)• Typepad (http://www.typepad.com)• Local

o Wordpress MU (umwblogs.org; blogs.brynmawr.edu)o Moveable Type (http://www.movabletype.org/)o Drupal (http://www.drupal.org)

Uses for blogs

Connecting and Communicating    

• IM (http://www.meebo.com/)• Twitter (http://www.twitter.com;

http://www.twitter.com/lblanken)• Facebook (http://www.facebook.com)

Uses for Connection and Communication tools

Multimedia: Video, Audio, Images

• Video sharingo YouTube (http://www.youtube.com)o Ustream (http://www.ustream.tv/)o Blip.tv (http://www.blip.tv)o OurMedia (http://www.ourmedia.org)

• Photo sharingo Flickr (http://www.flickr.com; o http://flickr.com/photos/47748104@N00/938910027/)

• Audioo Podcasting (iTunesU)o Voicethread (http://voicethread.com/#home; o http://voicethread.com/share/93377/)

Using Multimedia in Education

Lessons learned and Ideas revealed

Resources

• This presentation (http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=ajf97p8k367_98dpgcw6j3)

• eHub (http://www.emilychang.com/go/ehub/)• Liberal Education Today (http://b2e.nitle.org/)• Innovate (http://innovateonline.info/)• Academic Commons (http://www.academiccommons.org/)