Social networking sites are very much considered a Scary Thing by many people, or just something for people to have fun with (think of all the pupils with their Bebo and Myspace accounts). However, business has begun to wake up to the useful communication and collaboration possibilities opened up by having their own versions of these tools.
Having worked with Moodle and seen the capabilities of wikis and forums in particular, I think this could be a very important thing to investigate. Moodle even apparently has a peer-review system, which I have yet to try and use. Sad to say that Simply Click does not have any of these collaborative tools as yet, being mainly a tool for creating microsites, or for sending messages and assignments around the place.
Suw Charman is a social software consultant who has written an interesting post on her blog about online social networking in business, and I think a good amount of what she says is relevant to the education world. I wonder whether we will eventually have a pilot project related to this interesting area of blended learning?
PS - wireless internet access installed on Friday, PDAs are go!
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