Showing posts with label Chronicle of Higher Education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chronicle of Higher Education. Show all posts

Wired Campus: Project Aims to Build Online Classroom With Latest Web 2.0 Features - Chronicle.com

Wired Campus: Project Aims to Build Online Classroom With Latest Web 2.0 Features - Chronicle.com

The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Wired Campus noted that Howard Rheingold has won a grant in the Digital Media and Learning Competition to put all of the social-collaborative community tools (aka, Web 2.0) together in the classroom.

As Howard Rheingold commented back, "For those interested in a more complete description of the project, which includes the toolset, curricula (syllabi and teaching notes), resource repository (started here), video documentation and instructional material (in the vein of the first several entries), and the community of practitioners: the text of the award application."

Memo to Myself: Follow-up on These

Professors on YouTube, Take 2: http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2704/professors-on-youtube-take-2

A Professor's Tips on Using Twitter in the Classroom: http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2699/a-professors-tips-for-using-twitter-in-the-classroom

Sceneweaver Makes 3D Easy to Share: http://mashable.com/2008/01/28/scenecaster-sceneweaver/

Technorati Founder Launches Web Hot or Not. It's Geek Love.: http://mashable.com/2008/01/27/web-hot-or-not/

Second Life Technologist Moves to Academe - Chronicle.com

Second Life Technologist Moves to Academe - Chronicle.com

This may or may not be indicative of some real changes for academia and Second Life. I suspect that SL will keep moving increasingly towards commercialism ... but does that actually affect SL Educators in any way?