Wikis in plain English

Over the last few days i've come across links in several places, to an instructional video called Wikis in plain English. Created by Lee Lefever of CommonCraft, the first heads up came to a couple of us through Chris Joblings, blog Fresh and Crispy.

This is a brilliant video clip, it is the best explanation of how a Wiki works that i've ever seen, and i've seen a few. Its simple, its in non-technical language, and already i can imagine many situations where this could be a useful tool.

It can be found on YouTube here.

But more interestingly it can be found on dotSUB here, where it comes with subtitles in many different languages, and you can also add subtitles in a language if you can translate.

RSS in plain English

RSS as Lee LeFever says is "the new fast way to read the web".

This is another instructional video clip, from the same author as Wikis in Plain English. It is a great introduction to RSS, what it is and how to use it.

You can get it on YouTube or dotSUB.

Social Bookmarking in Plain English

Common Craft have been at it again. This time they've tackled Social Bookmarking.



Have a look at Common Craft's other excellent videos http://swansea-learninglab.blogspot.com/search?q=plain+english

Social Media in Plain English

A new video from the Commoncraft Show this time on the subject of Social Media

Social Networking - In Plain English

Lee Lefever has done it again!

Chris Jobling pointed out that this new video was available, following on from Wikis and RSS, to introduce Social Networking.

While perhaps not as good as his previous informational videos covering Web 2.0 features (you'll have to decide yourself), it certainly covers the basic concepts of what Social Networking is, in language that is easy to understand.