Center Your Week on LearnCentral!

Great stuff going on over at LearnCentral this coming week. Here are the highlights (straight from Steve Hargadon):

Monday, August 10th, 8am Pacific Daylight Time (US): Tammy Moore hosts session number 5 (of 9) on "Moodle for Teachers." This session includes assignments, quizzes, and the ungraded assignments block, with attention toward student activities and a discussion of good student practice and assessment activities.

Monday, August 10th, 5pm Pacific Daylight Time (US): Steve Hargadon hosts the "LearnCentral Pioneers" meeting, a regular group brainstorm and feedback session to help the developers of LearnCentral know what features and functionality you want.

Wednesday, August 12th, 11am Pacific Daylight Time (US): Jessica Fries-Gaither, project director of for Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, speaks on "Digital Storytelling for Middle School Science Classrooms" as part of the MSP2 Tech Talk series.

Wednesday, August 12th, 5pm Pacific Daylight Time (US): Steve Hargadon interviews Dan Schawbel on "Personal Branding in the Age of the Internet" as part of the Conversations.net interview series.

Friday, August 14th, 11am Pacific Daylight Time (US): Tammy Moore hosts session number 6 (of 9) on "Moodle for Teachers." This session includes forum search and wikis, as well as a discussion of these tools and the pros and cons of using the Moodle versions of these tools vs. those outside of Moodle.

LearnCentral

Led a session yesterday within the virtual rooms at NECC. Using Elluminate technology, the presentation incorporated a shared desktop, live audio, chat/backchannel, and sort of a live shared browser.

I've been taking part in these types of sessions for some time now, but only as an audience participant. I like the format. It's rather utilitarian, (my wide teases me about being addicted to all of the ham-radio things the Internet has to offer), but it works great and I especially like the ability to just pop into a session and see what's happening.

So after yesterday's session, the moderator Kim Caise told me to check out LearnCentral.org which is another project of Classroom 2.0 founder Steve Hargadon. I go there this morning to discover over 4,600 educators using the profile-based sm and free Elluminate rooms.

Where have I been?

That's the thrill of the Internet and social media. Just when you think you've got a handle on things, something flies out in front of you and demonstrates just how much you still have to learn.

Some people are turned off by this.

I live for this.