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"It concerns me how a lot of the social learning conversation seems to veer around the tools in the space. Tools are arriving thick and fast and yeah, it's easy to get caught up with all the bling. And this is not to say that I'm never excited by tools - nothing could be far from the truth. This said, social learning is less about the technology and more about the human interaction."

There's a lot of talk about social media in learning but where's the action? Well, something's happening in social media and learning, and Facebook is looking like a front runner. 

"As we near the halfway point in 2012, perhaps it's time to look back at some of the major stories, trends and developments in social media since the start of the year. Check out this neat infographic that highlights some of the biggest stories in social media, broken down month-by-month starting in January and ending in May. The infographic was created by NowSourcing, a social media firm based in Louisville, Ky."

"Knowledge mobilisation is a social process Efforts to enhance Knowledge mobilisation need to be interactive and focus on the relationships between researchers and decision makers Knowledge mobilisation happens at the level of the individual and is only beginning to emerge at the organization and the system/sectoral level"

Links to various articles:   "The German tradition of social pedagogy has become associated with social work. This tends to obscure its educational credentials as 'education for sociality', particularly to English-language readers. Here we explore its history and current status."

Social listening was a new one for me - finding things to engage with.

So even the people who hate something (the web? Social media? networking? computers?) are now starting to join FaceBook. We need a timescale on this as well for a start.

"Social media is about conversation. This increasing emphasis on two way communication and conversation has transformed organisational communications and is crucial to effective online knowledge sharing. Communicators using online media use the term 'engagement' to describe the process of moving to a situation where users and producers interact online, discussing and sharing content."

Great post from Mark Smithers bemoaning the ownership of social media by marketing gurus in universities

Social media use - suggestions from a doctor.

Social Media for Academics - Collection of social media resources I've produced for Sociological Imagination, the LSE impact blog, the Warwick Research Exchange and the Digital Change GPP

"Back in March I served on a panel along with Liz Gross, Ed Cabellon, and Greg Heiberger at the #sxswEDU conference. Here are some of the highlights: Greg and I talk about our latest research on using Twitter to support students throughout their first year of college. I summarize my recent research on using Facebook in education. Greg explores the future of higher education and how new technologies can be used to effectively improve student success. Liz discusses how to use Facebook to market your institution and programs. Ed explains how to frame productive social media use to administrators. I get snarky about EdTech startups and how they don't communicate with educators."

The goal of this study is to produce a report with 8-12 case studies which have used social software to support and engage learners, or have embedded the social software within the pedagogy of a course or a programme.

Good examples of social media engagement. Not using social channels as a news feed but engaging with students.

Infographics and other resources related to social media and how it can be used in education developed by the NZ Teachers' Council via @mariapersson

In growing numbers, scholars are integrating social media tools like blogs, Twitter, and Mendeley into their professional communications. The online, public nature of these tools exposes and reifies scholarly processes once hidden and ephemeral. Metrics based on this activities could inform broader, faster measures of impact, complementing traditional citation metrics. This study explores the properties of these social media-based metrics or "altmetrics," sampling 24,331 articles published by the Public Library of Science.

Why educators should know about social networking tools.

"Focusing on the ethical issues that arise in social media research, we looked at issues around understanding digital identities, the ethics of platforms and public and private data. This is the first in a series of posts detailing the discussions we held as part of the breakout session. "

"ThinkUp captures your posts, replies, retweets, friends, followers, and links on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. We'll be adding more networks in the future. ThinkUp stores your social data in a database you control, and makes it easy to search, sort, filter, export, and visualize in useful ways"