Carla Federman, US History Teacher at Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School, is teaching her Cold War class with a new twist this year. She will be reenacting the Cuban Missile Crisis using 15 different Twitter accounts. You can follow the tweets at http://thea.micds.org/twitster/index.php, or if you use…
Something’s gone terrible right with CourseFeed…
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…
The Networked Student… now on dotSub.com
Do you know what I do with openly licensed YouTube videos when I think they are worthwhile? I copy the YouTube link and paste it over on dotSub.com. (DotSub can import directly from YouTube.) Why do I do this? Because YouTube isn’t very useful if you are deaf or don’t…
What Color Is Your LMS Parachute?
I’m reblogging and expanding on a comment I left on Jon Mott’s blog post about the demise of Lively, Google’s Second Life clone. He and I and lots of others are interested in the idea of using collections of social web apps to form Personal Learning Environments in “the cloud.”…
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…