"A full-featured web site-creation package solely for the academic community. Scholars create web sites in seconds and can easily manage everything themselves (for free)"
Purpose of the Experience
Innovation continues to occur on the internet at an extremely lively
pace. What was once the realm of email, FTP, Gopher, and the Web is
barely recognizable a mere 10 years later. Keeping up with the speed of
innovation and maintaining a familiarity with the most recent tools and
capabilities is handy in some professions and absolutely critical in
others. This course is designed to help you understand and effectively
use a variety of "web 2.0″ technologies including blogs, RSS, wikis,
social bookmarking tools, photo sharing tools, mapping tools, audio and
video podcasts, and screencasts.
Social Media Classroom
Invitation to the Social Media Classroom and Collaboratory
Welcome to the Social Media Classroom and Collaboratory. It's all free, as in both "freedom of speech" and "almost totally free beer." We invite you to build on what we've started to create more free value. The Social Media Classroom (we'll call it SMC) includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service that provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes-integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets , and video commenting are the first set of tools. The Classroom also includes curricular material: syllabi, lesson plans, resource repositories, screencasts and videos. The Collaboratory (or Colab), is what we call just the web service part of it. Educators are encouraged to use the Colab and SMB materials freely, and we host your Colab communities if you don't want to install your own. (See this for an explanation of who "we" are).