A list of potentially useful resources for educators interested in Second Life, Distance Education and Edu-Blogging. (Plus some other little nuggets of information.)
Links for Educators
Educators explore ‘Second Life’ online - posted on CNN.com in 2006
Using Second Life to Enhance Teaching and Learning, Learning Abstracts. 2007
Higher Education in Second Life:Fall 2007 List of links from Ray Schroeder, Director, Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning, University of Ilinois at Springfield.
Comm Tech Lab. Michigan State University, Carrie Heeter’s web page. (Check out her publications at the bottom of the page.)
Preparing e-Learning Designers Using Kolb’s Model of Experiential Learning, Innovate Journal of Online Education. April/May issue 2008
Distance Education
Moodle
Moodle - Course Management System (CMS) As described by Wikipedia Moodle is a ‘free software e-learning environment’.
MoodleDocs - Moodle documentation
Learning the Moodle Mambo - Moodle workshop created by Miguel Guhlin. He provides lots of resources and links, if you are learning how to use Moodle this is a great place to visit!
Education & Blogging
Learning Curve: a Columbus State Instructional Technology Blog
Some useful nuggets
Syllabus Tips
Tools for Teaching - Creating a syllabus by Barbara Gross Davis, University of California, Berkeley
