use one major blogging service, Blogger. I've created various Blogs using Blogger over the eyars, but my major ones todfay are 'Half an Hour' [link] , which I use for long-form posts, and 'Let's Make Some Art Dammit' [link] I use for ds106 [link] projects and for generic art. It all depends on what you call social media. need it. MORE >>

We don't say 'everything should be a simulation' or 'all students must blog'. It's not often that you get a serties of points like this just begging to be refuted : > I don't think most of us want our dentists to be "out of the box" thinkers. All totally out of the box thinking. Nobody wants 747 pilots to rely on memory. We know they work. MORE >>

It was pretty much a given that most if not all of the responses to this question , posted on the Learning Circuits blog, would be "no". Blogs, wikis, lists, voting, rss feeds, timelines, photo sites, podcasts, vlogs, plogs, mashups, etc. Why not just blog it as it comes up? let everyone find their own way of making meaning." MORE >>

The central course aggregator listed 170 separate weblogs or similar RSS feeds contributed by students, each of whom used their own blog or website to participate in discussion. Hence, we collected the feeds from the 170 separate blogs and websites created by participants and stored the student contributions in the gRSShopper database. MORE >>

And the blog-based social networking sites, like MyBlogLog, have already been commoditized. I get to play a government scientist on the internet. My sort of environmental scan is a bit different from what you'll get from consultants and venture capitalists. don't know and I don't care. It's practical, down-to-earth advice. Maybe not. MORE >>