It's time to say farewell and acknowledgment to people in the class

Hi folks, It is the time to say farewell to all peers. It has been a pleasure working with all of you. On discussion board, blogging, and many platforms, we communicated with each other to explore and finger out the new world –Web 2.0. I was an amateur on this field, but I am grateful for being included on the awesome class to study from all of you. I am pleased that I have learned some tools and started to use them for my learning and life. I am thankful for Dr. Deneen and Lauren that they designed a wonderful lesson to greatly widen my horizon in multiple ways. Each detail in this lesson was designed to help us close to a variety of social media for the educational purpose and assist us to identify the strengths and weaknesses of different Web 2.0 tools. I really have found this course interesting and have acquired many valuable knowledge and skills that will help me improve personal/professional performance and learning.
I wish you all the best of luck in the future!
 
Na Chang

 

How many tools or other platforms are around us?

Social Media Tools

Facebook	Facebook is a social network that provides individual users with a profile where content may be shared, liked, and commented upon by the user’s connections, called “friends.” Facebook also allows the creation of group spaces. Facebook groups may be used to enable communication and sharing among class members. (Dennen)
Twitter	Twitter is a micro-blogging tool that allows users to broadcast brief messages. Messages can include images and URLs. Twitter can aggregate messages by user or by hashtag (e.g., #socialmedia). Shared hashtags enable chats among multiple users in real time or asynchronous resource sharing. Students can follow experts and key information sources. (Dennen)
Instagram	Instagram is a social networking service that focuses on photo and video-sharing.
Flickr	Flickr includes image and video hosting services.
YouTube	YouTube is a social media tool that focuses on video sharing. Users may post their own videos and view videos shared by other users. They can create their own channels, allowing other users to subscribe and receive notifications whenever new videos are posted. (Dennen)
Pinterest	Pinterest is a web and mobile application company that operates a software system designed to discover information on the World Wide Web, mainly using images and on a shorter scale, GIFs and videos. (Wikipedia)
Diigo	Diigo is a social bookmarking website that allows signed-up users to bookmark and tag Web pages. Additionally, it allows users to highlight any part of a webpage and attach sticky notes to specific highlights or to a whole page.
Pearltrees	Social bookmarking tool.
Goodreads	A community and bookmarking tool centered around books!
Blogs	Blogging tools allow users to publish a series of posts (text, images, and video) to a web page, with posts appearing in reverse chronological order. Readers can then comment on or share individual posts. Individual student blogs can serve as a reflective writing forum or an online portfolio of class work. Instructors may maintain a blog to communicate with students and encourage commenting. (Dennen)
LinkedIn	LinkedIn is a professional networking tool that allows users to create searchable profiles highlighting their education and experience. LinkedIn also supports open and closed groups, providing space for discussion and sharing. Not commonly used to support formal learning, but informal learning occurs in group discussion areas. (Dennen)
Google+	Google+ is a social network. Features included the ability to post photos and status updates to the stream or interest based communities, group different types of relationships (rather than simply "friends") into Circles, a multi-person instant messaging, text and video chat called Hangouts, events, location tagging, and the ability to edit and upload photos to private cloud-based albums.(Gundotra and Ryan)
Reddit	Reddit is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. Registered members submit content to the site such as links, text posts, and images, which are then voted up or down by other members. (Wikipedia)
Snapchat	Snapchat is primarily used for creating multimedia messages referred to as "snaps"; snaps can consist of a photo or a short video, and can be edited to include filters and effects, text captions, and drawings.(Wikipedia)
List.ly	A social list-making tool.
Wiki	Wikis are web pages that allow multiple users to edit them. Wikis record a complete edit history, and also include discussion tools so contributors can discuss their editorial work that is being done on the front-facing web page. (Dennen)
Nuclino	Nuclino is a cloud-based team collaboration software which allows teams to collaborate and share information in real-time.(Wikipedia)
Google Maps	a web mapping service.

LMS

Google Classroom	Popular in some K-12 systems.
Edmodo	Popular in some K-12 systems.
Canvas	Canvas includes major LMS tools with user-friendly/modern interface.
MOOC	Massive online open course often include both traditional instructional components and those more typically found in online courses, such as discussion forums and interactive exercises. The types of MOOC are cMOOC, xMOOC, pMOOC.(Bonk)

Teamwork / Project Management

Slack

group messaging, popular in many workplaces.

References

Dennen, V. P. (in press). Social media and instructional design. In R. A. Reiser & J. V. Dempsey (Eds.) Trends and issues in instructional design and technology. Pearson.

Curtis J. Bonk. The Emergence and Design of Massive Open Online Courses. In R. A. Reiser & J. V. Dempsey (Eds.) Trends and issues in instructional design and technology.

Gundotra, Vic Gundotra (June 28, 2011). "Introducing the Google+ project: Real-life sharing, rethought for the web". Google Official Blog. Google.

Lytle, Ryan (Oct 27, 2013). "The Beginner's Guide to Google+". Mashable. Mashable.