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Gary's Social Media Count

The Center for Social Media in the School of Communication at American University - project funded by MacArthur Foundation to clarify fair use in media education. Learn your rights under the fair use doctrine!

10 Outstanding Social Media Infographics

Socialmention: "like google alerts, but for social media" - Receive daily email alerts of what you want

this discussion by MIT's Henry Jenkins is a fabulous overview of the role Social Media played in the 2008 Presidential Campaign (and, by extrapolation) and how these technologies are shaping cultural and personal time. Very good!

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OpenCourseWare

Emerging Technologies for Online Learning Symposium, a joint Symposium of Sloan Consortium and MERLOT with MoodleMoot, is designed to bring together individuals interested in the technological aspects of online learning. The symposium, focusing on the technologies that drive online learning effectiveness, will continue to highlight research, applications, and best practices of important emerging technological tools. Experts, intermediate users and novices are welcome to participate in Symposium activities that will include face-to-face and virtual components. Symposium tracks highlight and demonstrate research, application and best practices of important emerging technological tools related to social networking, assessment, open educational resources, new media and support services. The Symposium is brought to you by the partnership of the Sloan Consortium, MERLOT, and MoodleMoot.

Rethinking Net Safety Together: dispelling myths about how kids use social media and how we might keep them safe (filmed in Second Life)

E-line brings a network of comic artists, game developers and educators together to solve problems through social games.

Digital Journalism Workspace

a course on emerging / new media and it's role in social discourse related to culture and events

100 educators to follow on Twitter