Want to play with any/all the tools shown here? 
Go to:
http://tinyurl.com/eventures/
e-ventures in Studying, Working and Living!
So, how do I fit everything in?
You came along to my breakout session - Huzzah!
A Day in an eLife
Want to see some handy social media tools in action?
So, there are loads of things that are fantastic about elearning  and a few that really suck... 
What tools should you keep an eye on? 
Questions on the Day in an eLife Presentation?
More Questions?
Here's the Plan:
We'll see what questions folk have
Try out some Social Media Tools
Gaze in our Crystal Ball a bit
Discuss the issues until we're out of time...
Twitter - want a go?
http://twitter.com/ELISAeVentures/

Audioboo - instant PodCasts! Try it here:
http://audioboo.fm/profile/ELISAeVentures


Google Wave - clever integration of services - could be superb for customer/student support!
http://wave.google.com/
Wolfram Alpha - Google killer? No. Wikipedia killer? Maybe... 
http://www.wolframalpha.com/
Spotify - new model for listening (free, on-demand, ad-supported), trumps peer to peer, could become hit maker for new releases:
http://www.spotify.com/en/
Twitter for news: new services and customer service uses likely to emerge as growth and noise requires filtering...
http://www.twitter.com
Free or cheap web and cloud tools that can replace expensive licensed software and add useful features - great when money is tight:

*Google Docs* - especially for presentations with chat enabled.
*Prezi*, *YouTube*, and websites instead of PowerPoint.
*MeetUp*, *Amiando*, *iCal* tools - meetings and ediaries. 
Educational / not for profit tools: *iTunesU*, *Flickr Commons*.
Portfolio tools on the web: *LinkedIn*, *CarbonMade* etc.
Survey tools: *SurveyMonkey*, *Google Forms* etc.
Remote participation tools: *Skype*, *CoverItLive*, *ScribbleLive*, tagging, etc.
Website and participation tools: *Ning*, *PBWorks*, *WetPaint*, *Google Sites*, etc. Forinstance: http://www.placebookscotland.com/
Social Bookmarking for Reading Lists & Podcasts and Vodcasts on those lists...

Google Squared - let's see what we can do:
http://www.google.com/squared
http://www.google.com/squared/table/ageJ-ev-8VfVPtZws0kRmhkw
I integrate, mashup, reuse like crazy!
Twitter updates also publish to:
Facebook
Friendfeed
LinkedIn
Ning
Blogger
PBWorks wiki
Any current CoverItLive events
Storytlr
Podbean
When I bookmark a website
It saves to delicious
It is fed out via RSS
It publishes to my website and blog
It publishes to Facebook
Relevant links publish to my work wiki
If I sign up to a new site/tool and it doesn't let me feed everything in/out I have to *really* want to be involved to stick with that site/tool. 
I love it when I can update one service from another: 
I blog from Flickr
I Tweet from Firefox Ubiquity
I update almost all Facebook stuff from other services
I only ever bookmark via browsers that update delicious 
Reuse isn't new: my film reviews from 5 sites are all on Rotten Tomatoes - I've never added a single review there but love that I can find my archive in one place!
Broadcast quality Podcasting 
isn't expensive and
sounds very effective:
http://suchprettyeyes.podbean.com/

But there are swifter ways...
http://tinyurl.com/nr6ygp

Networking MeetUps
http://www.meetup.com/

Personalise: iGoogle rather than Google:
http://www.google.com/ig
Prezi (it's what I'm using now!):
http://prezi.com/
Jing - cheap instant video
http://www.jingproject.com
Supportive and Friendly Virtual Community - massive peer support!
Super Flexible timing
Great access to staff and support:
email; twitter; skype; facebook
WebCT is just horrible!
Blends Personal/ Professional/ Study - it's not to everyone's tastes
Normal academic timelines and  teaching feedback can be frustrating. System downtimes are worse - feel totally impotent!
Lots of proactive students:  intimidating and inspiring all at once!
Hard to know when your comments about the course itself are being listened to
Bandwidth, connection, resource challenges - are books in the physical library any damn good?!
The Good... 
The Challenging...
The Bad...
The Pants!
Hard to meet Course Mates when they are in the US, Egypt, Thailand etc.
Trendspotting Predictions... 
Is an unresponsive colleague being unfriendly, offended, quiet, on holiday or have they quit the course?!
Often very quick and direct support (email, twitter, skype)
Assignment timings can be really tough when everything else is quite fluid and flexible
Ghost Students
http://prezi.com/79101/
Aesthetically it's out of date (by about a decade) and not very visual. 
It doesn't connect with all the other tools being used - you have to login a lot at the start of a studying session and... 
(For sound security reasons) it bumps you right out again all the time.
There is little room to personalise or use other web tools to help you navigate, organise, etc. your studies.
It's a slow slow grumpy system to use and frequently requires frustrating updates, patches and downtimes.
It's designed around strict hierarchies but that means students can't fix broken links or layout issues that they spot in their own course - which we frequently do.  
It's not designed for proactive multimodal learning, it works better as lecture note and discussion hosting solution - exactly the opposite of what an MSc in e-Learning wants really.
[among other things]