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=**4.5 – The Social Media Game: So Many Tools, So Little Time**=

//**Frid**////**ay, September 26, 1:15 pm – 2:30 p.m.**//
Are you overwhelmed with social media tools such as RSS, blogs, wikis, social bookmarking and other social media tools and can’t figure out how they might apply to your own professional development or employee learning? Come play the Social Media and Learning Game and explore how to match the right tools to various personal and organizational learning situations. You’ll learn when it makes sense to use social media and when it doesn’t. You’ll also learn about some of the pitfalls and challenges to implementing social media-enabled learning. By the end of the session you’ll know how to select the right tools for the situation and how to connect them to create a customized personal learning environment.

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=PDF Files of Social Media Game Cards= Note that they need to be printed front and back and cut into four cards (i.e., Social Media Game 1 and 1A go together, etc. ), except for the scenario cards.



**Blogs**
[|A blog]--My blog, The Bamboo Project
 * [|31 Days to Building a Better Blog]--a learning project with blogs
 * [|Using blogs to support reflective practice]
 * [|Web 2.0 Wednesday]--weekly activities to have fun with social media and learning. Note that people can post their activities on their own blogs and/or leave comments through my blog.

**Wikis**
A wiki--The 31 Day Comment Challenge Wiki, a world-wide, month-long learning project.

[|Wiki for the Connectivism Course]

[|Wikis as personal space]--how you can use a wiki to organize yourself

**Social Networks**
[|Work Literacy Ning]--using a white label social network to host a "course" on social media and Web 2.0 for learning professionals.

Social Bookmarking
[|Knowledge Sharing with Tags]--a screencast [|Listenup Health's Delicious bookmarks]--using annotated online bookmarks and tagging to share up-to-date info with learners. [|Social bookmarking to support professional practice]

Personalized Start Pages as Learning Portals
[|Presentation on Self-Organized Learning and Research in a Web 2.0 Environment] [|Personal Learning Environments]--how to pull together a variety of tools to create a customized learning network

**Documenting Learning and Professional Development**

 * [|Using social bookmarking to create an online portfolio >]
 * [|Expanding your Delicious Portfolio]--how the concept could be expanded to support classroom and other types of training.
 * [|Using free tools to create an online portfolio]

**Flickr**
[|What can we do with Flickr]? [|Tell a Story in 5 Frames]--Visual story-telling on Flickr [|100 Strangers]

Video
[|The Periodic Table of Videos]

[|SpanishPod]--A great example of how to combine many different types of social media HowCast--combines video and wiki guides for "how-to's"--think of how this concept be adapted for an organization. [|The Mobile Personal Learning System]
 * "Mash-ups"--web 2.0 tools combined**

**Resources**
[|The Machine is Using Us]--how web 2.0 changes things

[|Explanations in Plain English]--Lee and Sachi LeFever serve up 3-minute video explanations for most social media tools. If you need more basic info on some of the tools we discussed in the session, this is a great place to start.

One Page Guides to Some Social Media Tools


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[|Jane Hart's 12-Step Plan for Getting Started with Social Media] [|What Social Media Does Best]--good idea to understand when you need a hammer and when you need a screwdriver.
 * [|More on the Top 25 Tools from Jane Hart]**
 * [|My Blog Posts on Social Media and Learning]**
 * [|Social Bookmarking in the Enterprise]**--Note--I got this link because Tony Karrer is in my social bookmarking network and I saw that he had bookmarked it.
 * [|My Delicious Bookmarks]**