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Jane's Articles & Presentations
Building a social learning environment - for free or at low cost
Inside Learning Technologies Magazine
Part 2 - Using Google tools,
November 2009
Part
3 - Using free, open source social engine, Elgg,
January 2010
CHART COMPARISON OF 3 DIFFERENT WAYS
The following chart compares the 3 different ways of
building a social learning environment as described in the three
articles in the series for Inside Learning Technologies magazine above
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Free public tools |
Google tools |
Elgg |
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1: Social Networking |
Facebook, LinkedIn
Ning |
Orkut,
Google Groups |
profiling,
relationship building,
open/closed groups |
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2: Tagging content |
within each of the tools |
across the site |
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3: Social bookmarking |
Delicious,
Diigo |
Google
Bookmarks |
personal, group and site
bookmarking |
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4: File-sharing |
YouTube, Vimeo,
Flickr,
Photobucket, Slideshare, Prezi,
Screencast.com,
Screentoaster |
Google Video,
YouTube
Picasa,
Google Docs
Google
Calendar
Google Maps |
upload/share files
embed resources in web/blog pages |
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5: Communication |
Skype
Dimdim
YahooMail |
Gmail,
Google Talk |
internal messaging
chat, group forums |
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6. Collaboration |
Bubble.us,
Wetpaint,
Etherpad, Udutu |
Google Sites
Google
SideWiki |
wikis |
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7: Blogging |
Wordpress |
Blogger |
personal and group blogs |
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8: Podcasting |
iTunes,
Audacity |
Google Base |
upload podcasts
audio player |
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9: RSS Feeds |
Bloglines |
Google Reader |
store and read internal and
external RSS feeds |
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10: Micro-blogging |
Twitter |
Jaiku |
internal updates
can be sent to Twitter |
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Integration |
Netvibes
Netvibes for Enterprises |
iGoogle
Google Apps
Google Wave.
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seamless interface
dashboard
menu bar |
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