SocialMediaClassroom.com - Social Media Learning Tools

The just-launched Social Media Classroom and Collaboratory is a web endeavor that caters for teachers and learners alike. In essence, the SMC features a free and open source web service that provides its users with an integrated set of social media tools. These can be used by every specific course for its own purposes. For instance, some of the featured tools make for implementing blogs, forums and social bookmarking.

In any case, it is clear that this endeavor is made up of two different and complementary parts. The first is the Classroom, which is where curricular materials like lesson plans and syllabi can be procured. The other is the Collaboratory, and it could be defined as the web service part of this initiative.

The website also provides comprehensive information on the team behind this project, and the spirit that inspired it. As it is pointed out online, the idea is to nurture a public resource of knowledge that will serve those who are interested in the use of social media in learning processes. The eventual aim is to grow a community of participants that will watch over its evolution and governance.

“This website is an invitation to grow a public resource of knowledge and relationships among all who are interested in the use of social media in learning, and therefore, it is made public with the intention of growing a community of participants who will take over its provisioning, governance and future evolution.”

It is a social initiative that is bound to attract a large number of individuals.

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