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"# Learning takes place in a social context, and encouraging student-student and student-faculty contact and interaction gets at the heart of student engagement in online-education settings. # Because of their fundamental reliance on social participation and contribution, Web 2.0 tools, specifically social-networking tools, have great potential for enhancing the social context in support of learning, especially in online education. # Twitter used as an instructional tool can add value to online and face-to-face university courses that far outweighs its potential drawbacks."

Online timeline tool. Free. Looks like it might have possibilities.

Online Timeline tool and it is FREE

"# Writing effectively is academically and professionally crucial for students, and helping them attain that skill is a major goal for writing instruction. # The social networking site Ning offers a variety of Web 2.0 tools that can help students learn to write as well as write to learn. # A small pilot in a University of Connecticut writing course demonstrated Ning's effectiveness in helping students write to learn."

Since 2006, blogging has fallen among teens and young adults while simultaneously rising among older adults. As the tools and technology embedded in social networking websites change, and use of the sites continues to grow, youth may be exchanging 'macro-blogging' for micro-blogging with status updates.

This is a tool that allows you to link to many different web tools through the use of widgets. The NAIS annual conference community is using this as one of the points of interaction.

Twitter is a microblogging tool allowing you to post short (140 characters or less) items to the web. There are many tools that work with Twitter. You can learn more by exploring the links posted here under Twitter or through searching Diigo for "Twitter".

This is a tool that will allow you to visualize tweets based on a search string. This would be great for presentations.

This tool will allow you to visualize tweets based on search strings. Great for presentations

Schedule tweets

Interesting time line tool.

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