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Hi, welcome back I trust you had a relaxing Easter. This cycle of discussions looks at some Social Computing Tools. The purpose of this topic is to make you aware of and start thinking about how you might use such tools in your classroom. Exploration will be the main teaching method used to help familiarise with the topic’s content.

This Blog is structured as follows:

1. Post such as these which are displayed in chronological order
2. Pages which are more permanent locations for information
3. Weblinks directing you to the various resources.

I’d encourage you to explore all the resources provided on this Blog and read all the articles supplied as they will help give you a better idea about how these tools developed, what makes them different from other technology tools, and applications for them in the classroom.

In terms of the sequencing of topics read the Introduction, About Web 2.0, Blogs, Podcasts and Wikis.

But most importantly explore this blog, post comments if you wish and consider starting up your own Blog.

Welcome to the EDIT 413 Introduction to Computer Mediated Learning Blog. This is the first time I’ve used a blog to supplement my teaching of this unit. We will be working off this blog for the topic Social Computing Tools.

Check the menu bar on the left hand side as it provides the content for this topic. More content will be added to this blog as time progresses. That’s one of the characteristics of blogs - they’re organic. By subscribing to this blog (see below) you can be brought up to date with further changes that occur. As for the Starters a list of the readings you will be required to summarise can be accessed from here.

First things first though, read the material titled Using an Aggregator as this will help you get set up in order to get the most out of this part of the unit.