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TCC08: Creating and Teaching a College-Level Undergraduate Course in Social Networking

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Some good discussion about differences in social networking along racial and class lines and the opportunities for networking in the Hispanic community. Technorati Tags: socialnetworking , business , tcc08 , web20. Image: ‘ My social network ‘ [link].

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TCC08: Wikis and Blogs and Tags: Oh Why?

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Help connect learning in class to learning outside. If students are really uncomfortable sharing online, you need to make accomodations–one participant said he dropped a class b/c it required Blogger and he doesn’t like Google’s privacy policies. How do you pronounce Diigo? Is it DEE-Go?

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TCC08: What can Educators Learn from Online Religious Communities?

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She’s still active in the group even after her class assignment. Technorati Tags: tcc08 , tcc2008 , education , religion , community , web20. She had not used a chat room, IM, Facebook, or MySpace before joining a site called OurPrayer.org. Joined a group that did live chat. Chat has structure.

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TCC08: Cultural Diversity in Online Education

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We did this for the Cultural Competence course, discussing how “racism&# would be defined for the class. Technorati Tags: diversity , online+education , culture. Sometimes you need to discuss terms together and come to common understanding of meanings. Historically, this was a way to get away from the caste system.

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TCC08: Making Distance Learning Courses Accessible

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Interactive online class meetings. Technorati Tags: tcc08 , tcc2008 , accessibility , online+learning , universal+design. Online course with asynchronous (LMS) & synchronous (Web conferencing). Text-based files. Threaded discussions. Video files & audio podcasts. Matthew (Blind). Limitations. Seeing graphics & video.

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TCC08: Second Life: Teaching Tips from the Virtual Frontier

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In her environments, students sometimes don’t leave when class is done–they stay to play more. Technorati Tags: secondlife , education , avatar , identity , teaching , cynthia+calongne. If you want students to be active, create an environment to encourage that. Her slides are available on Slideshare.

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5 Simple Ways to Get Started with E-Learning Development - The Rapid eLearning Blog

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I us it in my classes and let me tell you it work.If Technorati. If the aesthetic sense is developed then we can incorporate. mousumi : Hey, this is quite an informative article. Every time i make PPT presenations I get confused what colors. Iris Antongiorgi : Power point is a simple way to learn. Graeme R : Thanks Cathy. Social Web.