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Social Software

9 April, 2008

Social software also known as collaborative software is a group of programs that allow users to interact and share data with other users. Most technologies classified as social software such as blog, face-book and wiki. These web 2.0 technologies were never intended for the world of education. This post will only focus on definining social software within an educational context. Social software is not a learning resource until it has been actively engaged and executed. Social software in education has the following attributes:

• delivers communication between groups
• enable communicationbetween individual
• provides resource gathering and sharing
• deliver collaborative collecting and indexing of information
• provide syndication to assist the personalisation of priorities
• provide tools for knowledge aggregation and creation of new knowledge
• allow multi-platform delivery of content

For more details on social software check out Evolution of social sofware

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