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TCC08: What can Educators Learn from Online Religious Communities?

Experiencing eLearning

Presented by Scot Headley, Amy Dee, Sue Phillips, Tricia Meyer, Jeanette Eggert. Missed most of her presentation due to a phone call. She had not used a chat room, IM, Facebook, or MySpace before joining a site called OurPrayer.org. Technorati Tags: tcc08 , tcc2008 , education , religion , community , web20. Tricia Meyer.

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TCC08: Cultural Diversity in Online Education

Experiencing eLearning

Presenters: Penny Lorenzo, Kaplan University, Cave Creek, AZ, USA. IM can be useful for building relationships b/c the expectations for spelling and language aren’t so formal. Technorati Tags: diversity , online+education , culture. Cultural Diversity and Its Impact in an Online Education Environment.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Day 3 - Forecasting the Future: Predicition Markets and MMOGs

Mark Oehlert

Web of Fate : Bills itself as " a semantic analysis engine that extracts meaning fromhistorical, present and future events and draw connections among them." Anyway, back to the topic, Im anxious #1 to see how this is going to be a game.I Anyway, back to the topic, Im anxious #1 to see how this is going to be a game.I

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): HHS and Federal Government Blogs

Mark Oehlert

Spies Use Custom Videogames to Learn How to Think" (WIRED) | Main | The e-Learning Guilds Call for Presenters at DevLearn 2008 » May 14, 2008 HHS and Federal Government Blogs Did you know that the Secretary for Health and Human Services has a blog ? Im going to head over and check out the feeds from the CBO blog and the Dept.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Stephen Downes, Storms and the Karl Kapp Instant Session

Mark Oehlert

Stephen Downes did his typically great presentation with the added twist of having an audience back channel running on the screen behind him. The conference folks made an announcement from the stage and Im thinking largely due to Karls presence, we had an impromptu session with a packed house! Brave man that Canadian.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): If there are Digital Natives does that mean there is no Digital Ellis Island?

Mark Oehlert

wisdom | Main | Great List of Presentation Resources » June 23, 2007 If there are Digital Natives does that mean there is no Digital Ellis Island? This information will help us make recommendationsto educators and legislators in a way that supports young people andharnesses the exciting possibilities their digital fluency presents."

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Lets go ahead and solve the future of publishing right now.

Mark Oehlert

Im surprised this hasnt happened sooner and isnt bigger. Im struck also by the announcement that the new version of the Kindle from Amazon.com is coming soon. Comments I have no doubt to say that the data presented here in this report is not only interesting but useful as well. Thats awesome. Really Mr McCoyd.youre surprised?

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