Not only new 'tools'

One of the best known examples of social software is a 'wiki'. As you have seen in the WBT of the first week even the CIA is using the wiki. An other example of the wiki is the famous Wikipedia.

Please watch this 3.51 minutes video on the concept of a wiki:

Social bookmarking

del.icio.us is a community bookmarking tool. The community is everyone with Internet access. del.icio.us allows you to share your bookmarks/favorites with the entire world, accessible from any online computer.

You log in with a usename and the address of the page is for example http://del.icio.us/Fecone. Everybody can go to that page and see your interesting bookmarks.

When you add an url you can write any notes as well as 'tag' it with keywords. These tags allow you to categorize your bookmarked websites in whatever way you want. This tagging is also often referred to as 'folksonomy'.

Additionally, del.icio.us will let you explore all other websites tagged by other del.icio.us users with the same keyword, and display them by order of recent popularity. This is a really powerful tool if you think about it, because it lets you find new websites that are considered most relevant and current by other del.icio.us users.

Learners can explore other learners bookmarks on a specific keyword. This is a fast way of learning from each other.

Learning blog

Some of our Greek learners started a learning blog related to this e-Learning Fundamentals course. To exchange ideas and to work together in their own language. You can find more about this initiative in the Learning cafe forum.

Great example of peer learning!