http://www.networkedcollab.org/vles dedicated to the sharing and exchange of information for the Virtual Learning Environments class at the New School Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:55:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our objective for this assignment was to to create a richer learning experience for high school students by combining entertainment, games, virtuality and education on an easily accessible browser-based platform. Ultimately, we developed Fractor World to be a collaborative learning hub on the Metaplace platform that exposes students age 13+ ... http://www.networkedcollab.org/vles/2009/07/final-blog-entry-group-2-metaplacefractor/ How does your project leverage and create a richer learning experience for your specific target population? Our project, Global TextBook, allows students to engage in documented discussions where their responses, questions and answers can be calculated and well-planned. The online nature of the discussion forums and potentials for chat room interactions ... http://www.networkedcollab.org/vles/2009/07/group-1-final-blog-entry/ During Rik Panganiban’s wonderful SL presentation I had a very positive outlook about the potential for Internet classrooms being he norm in the very near future. Then I flew to England ~ and somewhere between then and now, my perceptions and beliefs got turned on their head. Looking for WiFi in ... http://www.networkedcollab.org/vles/2009/07/looking-for-wifi-in-all-the-wrong-places/ I have had many a discussion with friends about Twitter and its usefulness vs. uselessness. I went to do see a panel in early June called "The Future of Media" that included Nick Denton of Gawker Media, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Bonnie Fuller of Bonnie Fuller Media, Wall Street Journal deputy ... http://www.networkedcollab.org/vles/2009/07/an-argument-with-a-friend-about-twitter/ Hi everyone, So it seems that our work is finally coming together! I added about 6 slides tonight and made some minor edits on a few others.  I plan to have all my slides completed by tomorrow night so I can spend the remainder of our time making edits and polishing ... http://www.networkedcollab.org/vles/2009/07/group-2-fractoplace/ This is hard for me to say, but I was wrong. I always had a very negative view of twitter (maybe it’s the name). I haven’t completely embraced it and connected to any prospective industry contacts with it, but I have signed up for twitter updates from some of my ... http://www.networkedcollab.org/vles/2009/07/ok-so-i-was-wrong/ Here is the video of screen shots showing the progression on using Metaplace/Fractors_World: Geotagging Fractor/Metaplace Cluster Map of Geotagging http://www.networkedcollab.org/vles/2009/07/video-and-cluster-map-showing-geotagging-of-metaplace/ You can check out the video presentation with the slide show of some images related to cinema at the blip.tv site. It is called "A Brief Nonchronological Visual History of Cinema with Film Posters & Stills" We can use this as a part of the activist game. As the player ... http://www.networkedcollab.org/vles/2009/07/a-brief-nonchronological-visual-history-of-cinema-with-film-posters-stills/ Enjoyed the meeting with the group: SL Meeting 7-22-09 http://www.networkedcollab.org/vles/2009/07/snap-shot-of-july-22-sl-groupmeeting/ Project 1, Conflict Texts Group Meeting We met tonight (Wed, 7/22) to continue working on our globaltextbook page on Ning.  The meeting ran for about an hour (6:30-7:30) during which time we reviewed where we want certain information to appear on the pages. We reviewed the texts Salman sent us and ... http://www.networkedcollab.org/vles/2009/07/project-1-meeting-notes/