Online/Distributed Learning

Pre-Recording Computer Demonstrations

Talking anyone through using new software can be difficult.  Even explaining the nuances of using an unfamiliar tool or feature in a familiar software package can be difficult unless you’re sitting right next to the person, and one demonstration may not be enough to make a complicated series of clicks and settings “stick” in the [...]


NMC’s Rock the Academy Virtual Conference

This news just in from the New Media Consortium: a virtual symposia exploring emerging forms of collaboration and tools.  Anyone interested in co-presenting a project at Penn?
Rock the Academy
Radical Teaching, Unbounded Learning
The 12th in the Series of NMC Virtual Symposia
November 4-6, 2008, via the Internet
Proposals for presentations for Rock the Academy: Radical Teaching, Unbounded [...]


Virtual Real-Time Collaboration

As we increasingly need to collaborate with each other across space and time, getting together with peers and colleagues gets more and more complicated. We’ve got a free tool that might make your life a bit easier: Yugma.
Yugma, whose name in Sanskrit means roughly “the state of togetherness”, is a free web conferencing tool that’s [...]