This afternoon I had the opportunity to connect up with a whole bunch of schools for a video conference from all around North Carolina put on the by the North Carolina Connectivity Council. It was really cool. We could see all of them and they could see us. There should be an archive [...]
24 Jan, 2007
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: General| Skype
So about a month ago I decided I would check out the online world of Second Life for it’s educational possibilities I kept reading about.
I logged in, created my own bald (looking only a few years in the future) avatar and started looking around. I was, of course, overwhelmed with the many, many ‘adult’ [...]
I received an e-mail from a professor (Dick Langston) on campus today informing me that their department (Germanic Languages) will be totally revamping the current curriculum. Their plan right now is to have all incoming students create a blog that they will update during their time in the department. When they leave they [...]
29 Nov, 2006
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: General| Skype
If you have been following the news lately you have probably read about some of the educational efforts right now to integrate online multi-player games like Eve-Online, Second Life and World of Warcraft into classroom learning environments, or at least harness the popularity and power of the games in an attempt to encourage learning among [...]