Highlighting Social Media courseware

If you are interested in free social media courseware with Creative Commons licensing, then check out Laurel Papworth's offering "COURSEWARE: social media and PR Crisis Communication."

Laurel is @silkcharm on Twitter with a very handy 8,770 (and rapidly rising) followers (June 8, 2009). Her blog reveals a top blogger, social media strategist, writer, keynote speaker and workshop facilitator on online communities and social networks and Twitter highlights a 'World of Warcraft' addict.

Laurel has generously started sharing her courseware under a 'Creative Commons Attribute and Non Derivative' license.

She is using the services of Scribd and publish on demand service, Lulu, to share with the wider community. Visit Laurel's storefront on Lulu for hardcopy (purchase) or free download options.

"Scribd offers a YouTube style embed, Lulu offers both hardcopy and a free download service."

COURSEWARE: Social Media PR Crisis Communication

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If you have an interest in the potential and use of social media, in a variety of contexts take the time to check out Laurel's courseware, visit Laurel's blog and add comments/suggestions or check her Lulu storefront.
And follow @silkcharm on Twitter and add to the global discourse via this phenomenal example of social media . I have!

Thanks, Laurel.

Experiment in Republishing

David Wiley has republished this free 14 week course "Blogs, Wikis, and New Media"as an experiment in republishing Open Courseware using Wordpress. Explore the course as is or download it and adapt to suit. (Creative Commons license)
More information about the original course, facilitation and assignments can be found at Utah State Open Courseware.

The course covers a comprehensive range of 'Web2.0' technologies including blogs, RSS, wikis, social bookmarking & photo sharing tools, folksonomies & tagging, GIS mapping, audio & video podcasts, screencasts, video sharing and mashups.

This is an amazing resource, especially for educators interested in updating their knowledge and
'maintaining a familiarity with the most recent tools and capabilities.' This resource should complement individual experimentation and personal learning as well as teacher workshops. Spread the word!