Archive for the 'SL' Category

Twitter for Teaching

The Chronicle of Higher Education web site has a story about an assistant professor at the University of Texas who began using Twitter with his class and says, “It was the single thing that changed the classroom dynamics more than anything I’ve ever done teaching.” The comments posted by readers include some other good ideas [...]

SL Voice Chat Rocks!

Tonight I joined Dr. Z’s class in SecondLife. Kathy Schrock and Ferdi Serim were guest presenters. The voice chat in SL worked great! It’s so much easier to communicate using voices than trying to keep up with text chats. I’m excited to see how this feature enhances the next Second Life Best Practices in Education [...]