how do we make a difference to teachers and learners with social software applications?

Starting questions/topics:

What is the impact of social computing on student learning?
How can teachers use social software tools to participate in professional learning through a 'community of practice'?
How can teachers share resources, ideas and pedagogies?
What benefits will socail software bring?
How do we engage students in multimodal learning though learning technology applications?
What are the challenges facing teachers in adopting Web 2.0 tools for their own professional learning?
What are the challenges facing teachers in adopting Web 2.0 tools for their own professional learning?
The challenges in building on the activities emerging through social software to create learning communities that offer personalised collaborative learning experiences to engage students and to facilitate their students' learning?
The challenges facing academics and teachers as they use Web2.0 tools to develop a collegial working relationship?

reading and other source material

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Catherine McLoughlin

Chris Reading