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Session 7 Team Project Social Media Policy

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This morning we will try and finalise your team project document - the Social Media policy for your book club related social media accounts. The process will be to work through the document and to decide what should be kept and what needs deleting or changing. At the end of the class, the task should be complete!

Session 6 Collaboration tools and Communication

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Collaboration The unit we are studying is called Use Social Media for Collaboration and Engagement. We have covered most of the tools under the Social Media banner, but there are also some web 2.0 tools that are used solely for collaboration. What is Collaboration? Why is it important to be able to collaborate online? How can we use Social Media to Collaborate? What features would you like to see in an online Collaboration tool? Online Collaboration Tools  Online collaboration tools can be split into categories, much like social media. I like to think of them as: Whiteboard Mind Mapping File sharing/Document sharing Concept design  Project Management/Team Collaboration Presentations Of course there are also tools that have multiple functions. Pretty much all of the tools that I have included have a reasonable FREE option as well as upgrade/Pro packages. Whiteboards This is exactly what it sounds like - a large whiteboard that you can share and colla

Session 5 Social Bookmarking, Curating and Discovery

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There are a number of tools that fit under one or all of these headings and the distinction between them can get blurred. Social Bookmarking You all know how to Bookmark a website that you like - depending on your web browser it might be called bookmarking or favourites. With social Bookmarking, you can share these bookmarks with other people in your network as well as sort into categories and add tags to allow you to sort or search them based on different criteria. Some also allow you to bookmark and save the article for reading offline. Social bookmarking is a way for users to search, manage, organize, and store useful web content they'd like to revisit and share with others. Because social bookmarking sites are web-based services, you can access your bookmarks online at any time, from any device. You can read more about Social Bookmarking here:  https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-social-bookmarking-3486501 The following tools are what I would classify as standard or tradi