collegedegrees.com: a serious resource for the Digital Learner
College Degrees is a great resource for digital learners and the instructors that teach them. Their articles are well thought out, through, and well researched. Their suggestions are practical, easy to understand and dad-gum handy.
My favorites are
- 57 Habits of Highly Effective Gmail Users: This is an excellent resource on how to use Gmail to the fullest.
- 50+ Useful Firefox Extnesions for College Students defines some of the best Firefox extensions for the digital learner and how to use them. Just when I thought I was going to be able to cut back to less than 30 extensions. Oh well.
- The post that takes the cake is the 50 tips and tricks to create a learning space in second life. I couldn’t have done better myself.
Secondlife is one of the tools for the digital learner that I believe has the most untapped potential. Even if universities like Ohio State have bought whole islands I still believe there is much more that the educator can do to take advantage of it.
Take a look at the blog and let me know what you think. I think its great.
Anne Mirtschin 6:07 pm on June 2, 2008 Permalink |
Hello James
I have followed your link from classroom20.com First, welcome to classroom2.0 which is a great place of web2.0 to be. I was intrigued with your title re number of friends. I have a twitter id and read that 150 people to follow is the ideal number. At that stage I had 28!!! Now, after 5 months, I have 350 and still do not find that too many to handle. The more contacts I have the greater my learning outcomes and sharing ability. I will look at some of the links on your blog post above when I have time later on in the day. If you are able you may change your blog url as it is missing the d in wordpress.
murcha 1:35 am on June 8, 2008 Permalink |
Oops James, I meant to put this comment on the previous post, so I hope that both you and your viewers will understand that it should have been there. However, I do love my gmail and all the google apps and am considering looking at second life but time is always a problem for me. As I teach younger students I have been looking at quest atlantis as a safe virtual world for middle school students.