Criteria for assessing the benefits of new social tools within an education context

It is incredibly hard to keep up-to-date with the growing number of intersting, intelligent and diverse social tools available under the umbrella of Web 2.0 applications. When meeting something new for the first time, it can be so overwhelming that it is hard to see any useful connection to education. At other times, the tool can be so suited to education, that more subtle uses can slip through the mental net. Continue reading