Archive for April, 2007
Collaborative Building in Second Life
Great, great video of educational activity in Second Life. Essentially the video is a time lapse move of student collaboratively building a house from a set of blueprints (on the ‘ground’ beneath their virtual feet). Remember the figures you see are avatars – they represent the students, and you can see how they manipulate the [...]
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Multi-touch and wiki collaboration
Great post from Steward Mader’s blog. In it he ponders as to how the forthcoming multi touch* technology might fit in with the use of wikis. Multi touch technology allows you to manipulate files, documents etc. on the computer screen by using your fingers rather than a mouse. One of the more exciting things about [...]
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Wikis (from the Encyclopedia of Educational Technology)
By Cathy Arreguin
Nice solid introduction to wikis with a couple of tips on tutor moderation – i.e. don’t moderate but take part as a participant yourself!
“Wikis are beginning to be used in many innovative ways across a broad range of subject areas. Several factors have been identified in the successful implementation of educational wikis. Some [...]
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7 things you should know about Google Earth
From the Educause site.
Another great guide from Educause. This considers as to how you can use Google Earth in an educational context.
“He has a complete set of Lewis and Clarkâs maps, in JPEG format. He carefully overlays their maps onto the images in Google Earth, adding placemarks for important milestones. Once he has the journey [...]
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Web’s second phase puts users in control
Steve O’Hear (Guardian)
God introduction to web 2.0 or I should say e-learning 2.0 technology. The main focus is on using weblogs, video blogs (youTube) and image annotation (flickr).
A great introduction.
“The “new” web is already having an impact in class, as teachers start exploring the potential of blogs, media-sharing services, and other social software, which, although [...]
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Remote Instrumentation
Another one of Educauses’ excellent concise guide. This guide looks ta how universities might make instruments available remotely to external institutions and their students. In a nutshell students will be able to log and manipulate technology to preform experiments which previously would have only been reported to them as part of a lecture.
As Educause defines [...]
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When do online/computer simulations add the most value?
By Gene Koo. A quick snippet from the Harvard Law blogs.
Some interesting ideas on how simulations add more value as compared to traditional teaching methods. They are (quote):
1. The subject is best learned through role-playing
2. The subject must be modeled using complex data and formulae
3. The subject is amenable to learning through exploration
Each are expanded [...]
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More Second Life items
Three very good articles on Second Life.
Real learning in a virtual world
By Gregory M. Lamb (The Christian Science Monitor. No….really…).
Raises a couple of neat comparisons to what is increasingly becoming the traditional form of distance e-learning, particularly providing a reals sens of community: “”The typical experience in a distance-education class is to go to a [...]
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More on Second Life and Virtual worlds
Plethora of articles on virtual worlds and Second Life. I do have other things to post (particularly on blogs) but have a backlog and these articles are first in the pile.
First off from Educause we have ‘7 things you should know about Virtual World’. A very good and articulate guide and intro to virtual worlds [...]
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Blogging to Learn and Learning to Blog
By Karl Kapp, Bloomsburg University and Lisa Neal, eLearn Magazine
Short but good summary of blogging in the corporate context. The emphasis is on knowledge storage and management both from the perspective of the blogger and that of the reader.
Also a nice a persuasive argument for management blogging: “An expert, thought leader, or industry-segment leader within [...]
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