Integrating Web 2.0 into Teaching
Here's a news item from the Center for History and New Media that offers some interesting integration possibilities for Web 2.0 tools - the Facebook item is especially intriguing given that more of our students read more Facebook profiles than emails.
ScholarPress Launched
CHNM Creative Lead, Jeremy Boggs and CHNM Web Developer, Dave Lester have announced the launch of ScholarPress, a hub for educational WordPress plugins. ScholarPress currently features two plugins, Courseware and WPBook.
Courseware enables users to manage a class with a WordPress blog, including a schedule, bibliography, assignments, and other course information. Initially developed during the summer of 2006 with help from Josh Greenberg, former Associate Director of Research Projects, now the Director of Digital Strategy and Scholarship at the New York Public Library, Courseware has since been tested and used by several professors at George Mason University.
WPBook works with the Facebook Development platform to enable Facebook users to embed a Wordpress Blog onto their Facebook page. WPBook works with Courseware to create a custom application allowing students to view syllabus information directly from Facebook.
A third plugin, Gradebook, will allow users to manage and display class grades securely to students. Gradebook is currently under development.
From: http://chnm.gmu.edu/news/ (November 12, 2007 entry)
