Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

Social Media in Plain English and Mr. Winkle

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I’m a big fan of the videos from Common Craft. I use them constantly in my classes and workshops. Their newest video is Social Media in Plain English:

I also ran across the Mr. Winkle Wakes video today (hat tip to Jon Becker):

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