Rebecca Nesson, speaking via Skype and appearing before us as her avatar in Second Life, offered her experiences as a co-instructor of Harvard Law School’s CyberOne, a course being held jointly in a meatspace classroom and in Second Life, and open to students via Harvard Law, the Harvard Extension School, and to the public that [...]

Posted November 15, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: academia, cyberone, distance learning, gaming, harvard law, nercomp, online courseware, rebecca nesson, second life, social software, SSTL2006. 2 Comments.

They don’t want to engage in chat with their professors in the classroom space, they want to chat with other students in their own space.
— from Eric Gordon’s presentation this morning.
Hey, isn’t that the lesson that smart folks have been offering for a while now: “Nobody cares about you or your site. Really.” How [...]

Posted November 14, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: academia, academic discourse, chat, im, nercomp, social software, SSTL2006, students. One Comment.

It’s really titled Social Software for Teaching & Learning, and I’m here with John Martin, who’s deeply involved with our learning management system and portfolio efforts (especially as both of these are subject to change real soon now).
Aside: CMS = content management system, LMS = learning management system. Let’s please never call an LMS a [...]

Posted November 14, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: learning, nercomp, social software, SSTL2006, teaching. Be the first one.