Emerging Technologies Consulting

On Wednesday, I’ll be conducting a day-long workshop at Gettysburg College through NITLE’s wonderful programming.  In preparation for the workshop, I prepared the following resources.  There’s so much out there now on using different social software tools for teaching that it’s hard to keep the list short.  I just threw a few things in each category.  If you know of other resources I should include, let me know.

General–interesting things on Social Software in Education

• Michael Wesch from Academic Commons, Learning in New Media Environments (The whole issue is worth exploring)
• Clay Shirky on Tagging
• Mark Prensky (classic writing on digital natives, gaming, education, etc.)

Blogs

• Academic Blog Wiki
• Research Blogging
• Blog Software

Wiki Assignments

• Writing/Evaluation Assignment
• Wikipedia’s invitation to participate and ideas for assignments
• Wikiversity
• Educause: 7 Things You Should Know about Wikis
• Wikis in Plain English (video)

Social Bookmarking

• List of articles/resources on using social bookmarking

Images

• The Commons at Flickr
• FlickrVision

Social Networking

• Social Networking for Educators
• 25 Apps for Facebook for Educations

Gaming

• SLED
• Second Life vs. WoW for learning
• Language Learning in WoW