If you like OpenCourseWare and Facebook, you need to check out CourseFeed. CourseFeed started out as a virtual classroom app that supported Blackboard announcements and content, but it is growing into much more. Currently CourseFeed allows anyone on Facebook to add OCW courses from Stanford, Notre Dame, and Utah State…
Links from my AECT seminar: Web2.0 to support teaching and learning
Thanks to all who participate in this seminar! I hope it was helpful. Some great ideas and links were shared today as we discussed the components that make up Web2.0. Here are the presentation slides. Also, here is a link to my class website (wiki) for preservice elementary school teachers:…
CourseFeed + OpenCourseWare = Personal Learning Environment?
Yesterday I spoke to Jayson and Rich from ClassTop about CourseFeed, their Facebook app that connects users to other course members and course content. This includes a shared “course wall” and “course notes,” which can be posted to and tracked via Facebook. And for students enrolled at institutions with a…
Trip to China
I got back from an Open Education conference in Dalian, China a couple days ago. Dalian is the most popular tourist city for the Chinese, but you’ve probably never heard of it. Funny how little we know about other countries. Anyway, I took a bunch of pictures of both Beijing…