{"id":198,"date":"2008-10-16T04:28:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T10:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/2008\/10\/16\/social-media-classroom\/"},"modified":"2008-10-16T04:28:35","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T10:28:35","slug":"social-media-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/2008\/10\/16\/social-media-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rheingold.com\/\">Howard Rheingold<\/a>, (author of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rheingold.com\/vc\/book\/\">Virtual Community<\/a><\/i> and <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartmobs.com\/\">Smart Mobs<\/a><\/i>), has just launched the <a href=\"http:\/\/socialmediaclassroom.com\/\">Social Media Classroom<\/a>.   The site includes an open-source (Drupal-based) web service for teachers and learners.  It offers a whole bunch of stuff, generally referred to as &#8220;social media&#8221; (or, &#8220;digital media&#8221;) in an integrated platform. Courses using the SMC can select from a menu of social media, including integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets and video commenting.     There&#8217;s also a &#8220;classroom&#8221; side to the platform that includes various bits of curricular material: syllabi, lesson plans, resource repositories, screencasts and videos.   And, possibly the best part, is that it&#8217;s all free.  Or, as Howard puts it: <i>It\u2019s all free, as in both \u201cfreedom of speech\u201d and \u201calmost totally free beer.\u201d<\/i> Free is good.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Howard Rheingold, (author of Virtual Community and Smart Mobs), has just launched the Social Media Classroom. The site includes an open-source (Drupal-based) web service for teachers and learners. It offers a whole bunch of stuff, generally referred to as &#8220;social media&#8221; (or, &#8220;digital media&#8221;) in an integrated platform. Courses using the SMC can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[733,732,144],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-rheingold","tag-social-media","tag-teaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}