Education 2.0: Leveraging Collaborative Tools for Teaching

On March 25, 2010 I presented at the Drexel E-Learning 2.0 Conference on "Education 2.0: Leveraging Collaborative Tools for Teaching". It was an opportunity to update my slides with what I did and learned from the Chemical Information Retrieval course I taught over the Fall 2009 term.

I described using a wiki to organize course content and to allow students to contribute useful resources. Their assignments were also designed to be useful to other students in the class as well as to the general library and chemistry community.

I covered using wikis and other collaborative tools to mentor students doing laboratory research with Open Notebook Science. At the end I provided a quick overview of using games and Second Life for educational purposes.

Education 2.0: Leveraging Collaborative Tools for Teaching

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Jon Udell Interviews me for ITConversations

Update: the transcript is now available.

My interview is now available on the ITConversations podcast. Jon Udell did a great job of covering lots of territory:

• Open Notebook Science and UsefulChem
  and a mention of our Mettler-Toledo trial
• our collaboration with Rajarshi Guha and Phil Rosenthal
  
• screencasting (a term coined by Udell by the way)
  
• teaching chemistry (in collaboration with Andy Lang) with Second Life
• Nature Island and ACS Island
  
• intellectual property and Open Science
• the role of competition in science
• the role of wikis and blogs in ONS
• Drexel Island on Second Life (a mention of Beth Ritter-Guth)
  
• the avatar effect
• poster presentations in Second Life
• Jon teaches me how to do a screencast inside Second Life