The Social Media Classroom is a tool that the Berkeley Home School Prep Academy advocates
because it provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes—integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets, and video commenting are the first set of tools.
The visionary and creator of this tool is our good friend and former professor Howard Rheingold featured in the photo on the left. Howard is one of the world's foremost authorities on the social implications of technology. He is also one of the creators and former founding executive editor of HotWired, and the author of several books, including The Virtual Community, Virtual Reality, Tools for Thought, and the upcoming book scheduled to be launched March 2012 entitled Net Smart. In Net Smart Howard argues how mindful use of digital media means thinking about what we are doing, cultivating an ongoing inner inquiry into how we want to spend our time. http://www.amazon.com/Net-Smart-How-Thrive-Online/dp/0262017458 . Howard is also responsible for creating Rheingold U, which is an online learning community, offering courses that usually run for five weeks, with five live sessions and ongoing asynchronous discussions through forums, blogs, wikis, mindmaps, and social bookmarks. See: http://www.rheingold.com/university/ . Howard also teaches at both Berkeley and Stanford.
Chiefly, the Social Media Classroom website is an invitation to grow a public resource of knowledge and relationships among all who are interested in the use of social media in learning, and therefore, it is made public with the intention of growing a community of participants who will take over its provisioning, governance and future evolution. For a peek of the Social Media Classroom for the Berkeley Home School Prep Academy, click on the link below:http://socialmediaclassroom.com/host/berkeley-home-school/wiki/welcome-berkeley-home-school-prep-academy-director
Watch Howard Rheingold discuss Net Smart and How to Thrive Online at the YouTube video below:
because it provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes—integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets, and video commenting are the first set of tools.
The visionary and creator of this tool is our good friend and former professor Howard Rheingold featured in the photo on the left. Howard is one of the world's foremost authorities on the social implications of technology. He is also one of the creators and former founding executive editor of HotWired, and the author of several books, including The Virtual Community, Virtual Reality, Tools for Thought, and the upcoming book scheduled to be launched March 2012 entitled Net Smart. In Net Smart Howard argues how mindful use of digital media means thinking about what we are doing, cultivating an ongoing inner inquiry into how we want to spend our time. http://www.amazon.com/Net-Smart-How-Thrive-Online/dp/0262017458 . Howard is also responsible for creating Rheingold U, which is an online learning community, offering courses that usually run for five weeks, with five live sessions and ongoing asynchronous discussions through forums, blogs, wikis, mindmaps, and social bookmarks. See: http://www.rheingold.com/university/ . Howard also teaches at both Berkeley and Stanford.
Chiefly, the Social Media Classroom website is an invitation to grow a public resource of knowledge and relationships among all who are interested in the use of social media in learning, and therefore, it is made public with the intention of growing a community of participants who will take over its provisioning, governance and future evolution. For a peek of the Social Media Classroom for the Berkeley Home School Prep Academy, click on the link below:http://socialmediaclassroom.com/host/berkeley-home-school/wiki/welcome-berkeley-home-school-prep-academy-director
Watch Howard Rheingold discuss Net Smart and How to Thrive Online at the YouTube video below: