Communities and social software

This course is still in forming stage only...

Lectures:

1.Community – what's that? 2.Special features of online communication 3.Social software – building blocks of online communities 4.Learning communities 5.Social networking sites – the bane of the youth? 6.The WikiWorld 7.The blogosphere: you can be a journalist, too! 8.Feeding the news – RSS, Atom and others 9.Social bookmarking and tagging 10.Building software the Linux way – community-based software development 11.

Labs:

1.General introduction 2.Sharing the content: Flickr, Frappr 3.Wiki editing 4.Bookmarking and tagging – del.icio.us, Technorati, Rojo 5.Learning authoring – LeMill

Assignments:

Create a bookmark collection at del.icio.us Create a photo album at Flickr Write an introduction about yourself at the course wiki Write about the experiences in a blog