Because it is difficult to maintain a current list of resources, and there are a number of good resources available elsewhere, the Group has discontinued the Resources page. However, for anyone who was linking to these resources, we have moved the content from the resources pages to this page so you may still access them.
Disclaimer: The resources were verfied in April of 1020. Because, web resources change quickly, we cannot guarantee that a link will be active after this date.
21st Century Learners
Presentations
Finding Resources
Collaborative Sharing
Collaborative Tools
Educational Gaming
Geolocation
RSS
Social Networking
Virtual Communication
Virtual Worlds
When considering the characteristics of a 21st century learner, it is important to remember that we are talking about trends and that these characteristics do not necessarily apply to everyone.
About your students
About 21st Century Skills
About Their Technologies
Re-examining Your Views of Teaching and Learning
The following are resources we have found to be useful locating emerging learning tools.
- International Society for Technology in Education - ISTE
- Arizona Technology in Education Alliance - AzTEA, AzTEA Wiki
- New Media Consortium
- Horizon Report
- EDUCAUSE
- EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative
- Seven things you should know about... series
- Blog Pulse Trends
- Darcy Norman Dot Net Blog
- Educause/ELI Emerging Practices
- Elearn Space: Learning and Technology Blogs
- Slashdot - News for Nerd
- Stephen Downes Blog
Blogging
A weblog, which is usually shortened to blog, is a type of website where entries are made (such as in a journal or diary), displayed in a reverse chronological order.
Blogs often provide commentary or news and information on any subject. The word blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright licenses known as Creative Commons licenses. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of other creators.
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."
Citizen Journalism
Citizen journalism, also known as public or participatory journalism or democratic journalism, is the act of non-professionals "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information," according to the seminal report We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information, by Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis. They say, "The intent of this participation is to provide independent, reliable, accurate, wide-ranging and relevant information that a democracy requires."
- Definition of Citizen Journalism [video]
- Citizen Journalism - What is it? [video]
- The 11 Layers of Citizen Journalism
- Grassroots journalism: Actual content vs. shining ideal
- How to succeed as a citizen media editor
- Your Guide to Citizen Journalism - Media Shift
- The New Voices: Hyperlocal Citizen Media Sites Want You (to Write)!
- Society of Professional Journalists: Citizen Journalism Academy
- We Media: How audiences are shaping the future of news and information
- What is Participatory Journalism?
Digital Storytelling
The Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS) maintains an ongoing list of Web resources about digital storytelling and storytelling activities. The list can be found online at http://www.storycenter.org/resources.html Principal Resource Sites
- Center for Digital Storytelling
- Digital Storytelling Association
- Hillary McLellan's Story Link
- Digital Storytelling Cookbook
- Digital Storytelling - Overview
- Narratech: Storytelling in a Digital Age
Examples
- Arizona Adult Education Digital Storytelling Institute
- Australian Center for the Moving Image
- BBC-Telling Lives
- Bush Mechanics!
- Case Studies
- Creative Narrations
- Digital Clubhouse Network
- Digital Storytelling Finds Its Place in the Classroom
- Educational Uses of Digital Story telling
- EDUCAUSE - Digital Storytelling at Maricopa CC
- Library of Congress
- Open Video Project
- Photobus
- Silence Speaks
- Teaching Teachers.com
- Visible Knowledge Project from Georgetown
Design
Mashups
The term mashup comes from the music industry where artists will overlay various musical tracks to come up with a new song.
In web terms, a mashup is a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool; a typical example is the use of cartographic data from Google Maps to add location information to real-estate data from Craigslist, thereby creating a new and distinct web service that was not originally envisaged by either source. (Wikipedia- accessed Oct, 2007)
Mashups Public Interfaces
- Wikimapia
- Google Maps Mania
- Google Map Builder
- Map Builder
- Map Builder - Multiple Locations
- Google Earth
- Google Mars
Examples
- Google Earth Blog (Best Resource)
- Freesound Google Map
- Gmaps Pedometer
- Google Planimeter
- Hurricane Tracker
- YourGmap
- Earthquakes in the last week
- MashPlanet
- WikiWalki
- More Mashups than you can shake a stick at
Advanced Examples of Mashups
- Retrievr - Retrievr searches Flickr photos based on visual input that you provide
- Spell with Flickr - This mashup is a simple tool that spells out a message you enter by drawing it with photographs of letters and numbers hosted by Flickr
- Tagnautica - Visually navigate through Flickr images by browsing related tags -
- Flappr - This slick-looking application is basically a Flash-based interface you can use to browse the Flickr library
- Captioner! - The mashup Captioner! lets you add comical speech balloons to any Flickr photo
- Fastr - We said that some of the best Flickr mashups are games, so here's one of them
- Colr Pickr - Select a color from the color wheel and the Colr Pickr loads a selection of twelve photos from Flickr that best match your selected color
- Flickrball - Here's another Flickr mashup game that's a little more complicated
- Flickr Sudoku
Podcasting
Podcasting is the method of distributing multimedia files, such as audio or video programs, over the Internet using syndication formats, for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. "Podcasting", coined in 2004, combines "iPod", a popular portable audio device, and "broadcasting."
The term podcast, like 'radio', can mean both the content and the method of delivery. The host or author of a podcast is often called a podcaster. Though podcasters' web sites may also offer direct download or streaming of their files, a podcast is distinguished by its ability to be downloaded automatically using software capable of reading RSS or Atom feeds
Usually a podcast features one type of 'show', with new episodes released either sporadically or at planned intervals such as daily or weekly. In addition, there are podcast networks that feature multiple shows on the same feed.
Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is the practice of saving bookmarks to a public Web site and “tagging” them with keywords.
Wikis
There are variety of emerging tools that allow people to collaborate in an online environment. The following is examples of the tools.
Mini Versus Complex Games (Prenskey)
Mini-Games
- Generally take 2 hours or less to complete.
- Typically provide a single challenge, other than repetitive problems.
- Are generally played alone or one-on-one
- Typically have players play as themselves
- Are mastered relatively quickly.
- Rarely encompass ethical dilemmas or require players to make important decisions.
- Include almost all 52-card-deck games, such as Solitaire, Poker, Hearts (Bridge may be an exception), quiz games such as Jeopardy and Who wants to be a Millionaire, most board games, such as Scrabble and Monopoly (Chess, Go and some strategy games are possible exceptions), and practically all the learning games found on web sites.
Complex Games
- Can take from 8 to over 100 hours to complete
- Require players to learn a wide variety of often new and difficult skills and strategies, and to master these skills and strategies by advancing through dozens of ever-harder levels.
- May require both outside research and collaboration with others while playing.
- Often require players to assume alternate identities.
- Frequently present players with ethical dilemmas or life-and-death decisions.
- Often take from 20-60 hours of playing to master.
- Include just about every game that comes in a box, either for a PC or console (Playstation, Game Cube, or Xbox), as well as many that are made for handheld devices such as GameBoys. Most simulation games (Sim City, Airport Tycoon, etc.), history strategy games (Civilization III and Rise of Nations), military strategy games, and sports games are complex games.
Organizations
- TEEM: Teachers Evaluating Educational Multimedia
- National Institute on Media and the Family
- Games for Health
- Social Impact Games
- Game Theory.net
- GamesParentsTeachers
- Games2Train
- Social Impact Games
Examples of Complex Games
The group does not endorse any of the following games. The listing is provided as examples of complex games.
- America's Army
- Animal Crossing
- Animal Crossing Community
- Black and White
- City of Heros
- Everquest
- Everquest II
- Fable
- Harvest Moon
- Lineage
- Lineage II/
- Life and Death
- Maya: Yourself! Fitness/
- Mind Rover/
- Re-Mission
- Rise of Nations
- Runescape
- Sim City
- Sim Health
- Sims
- Sims 2
- Thinking World
- Virtual U
- Welcome to Zipland
- Wild Divine
- World of Warcraft
- Zoo Tycoon
Geolocation is the process of identifying a geographic location of a computing device. This could be via a computer's IP address or by using GPS.
The two most common forms of Geolocation are Geo-caching (locating an object based on a GPS position) and Geo-tagging (tagging an item with the geographic location associated with that item).
RSS is used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. An RSS document (which is called a "feed") includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship. [Modified from Wikipedia - accessed 11/15/08]
Aggregators
- What are aggregators - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_aggregator
- List of news aggregators - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_news_aggregators
The following resources focus on the sharing of information aspects of social computing.
- Social Networking in Plain English [video]
- Dodgeball (Mobile Social Computing)
- MySpace
- Wikipedia's list of Social Networking Sites
Communication Tools
Live Meeting Spaces
Examples of Virtual Worlds
- Active World - http://www.activeworlds.com
- Celestia - http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
- CyberOne: Law and the Court of Public Opinion - http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cyberone/
- Education Virtual Library - http://www.csu.edu.au/education/library.html
- Idaho's Bio-terrorism Awareness and Preparedness Program - http://play2train.hopto.org/
- Virtual Worlds Review - http://www.virtualworldsreview.com
- Whyville - http://www.whyville.net/smmk/nice
- World Food Program, Food Force - http://www.food-force.com/
Virtual Reality
(VR) is an environment that is simulated by a computer. Most virtual reality environments are primarily visual experiences, displayed either on a computer screen or through special stereoscopic displays, but some simulations include additional sensory information, such as sound through speakers or headphones.: Wikipedia (accessed 3/1/06)
- 3D Virtual Spaces For Learning And Collaboration - http://www.masternewmedia.org/2004/09/27/3d_virtual_spaces_for_learning.htm
- Active Worlds and Education - http://www.activeworlds.com/edu/index.asp
- Croquet Project - http://www.opencroquet.org/
- On The Net Resources: Education and Training - http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/knowledge_base/education.html
- Use of Virtual Reality in K-12 Education - http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/articles/vrk12/index.htm
- University of Arizona QuickTime Virtual Reality - http://qtvr.arizona.edu/
- University of Arizona: CAVE - http://azlive.arizona.edu/
- University of Michigan Virtual Reality Lab - http://www-vrl.umich.edu/
General
- Computer Networks As Social Networks: Collaborative Work, Telework, and Virtual Community - http://tinyurl.com/yjmjul
- Computer Support for Knowledge-Building Communities - http://www.leaonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15327809jls0303_3
- Future of e-learning communities - http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=505248.505274
- Nick Yee's Home Page - http://www.nickyee.com/
- Seeing What We Build Together - Distributed Multimedia Learning Environments for Transformative Communications - http://www.leaonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15327809jls0303_4?cookieSet=1&journalCode=jls
- Social Capital in Virtual Learning Communities and Distributed Communities of Practice - http://www.cjlt.ca/content/vol29.3/cjlt29-3_art7.html
- Social Software in Academia - http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm06/eqm0627.asp
- Trends in Social Software - http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=ERS0604
- Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning? - http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0621.asp
Look at almost everything on this page - http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/but especially "Engage me or Enrage Me"
And review these
- http://www.twitchspeed.com/site/news.html
- http://www.digitalmultiplier.org/(You'll need to sign up for this one)
Examples
- a_rage (Augmented Reality Active Game Engine) - http://www.a-rage.com/
- Augmented Reality at Bauhaus University - http://www.uni-weimar.de/~bimber/research.php
- Augmented Reality in Architecture - http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsapp/BT/RESEARCH/ar.html
- Augmented Reality Lab - Georgia Tech - http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/ael/
- Aware Home - http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/fce/ahri/index.html
- Columbia Computer Graphics Lab - http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/graphics/
- Context Aware Cell Phone Project - http://www.media.mit.edu/wearables/mithril/phone.html
- Context-Aware Computing, MIT Media Lab - http://education.mit.edu/ar/
- Context Aware Computing Group @ MIT - http://context.media.mit.edu/press/index.php/projects/
- Georgia Tech's Augmented Environments - http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/projects/ael/
- Hybrid Vision-assisted Tracking and Augmented Reality Research at UNC - http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/us/web/quicktime.htm
- How Augmented Reality Will Work - http://computer.howstuffworks.com/augmented-reality.htm
- Image Guided Surgery - http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/medical-vision/
- Introduction to Augmented Reality - http://www.se.rit.edu/~jrv/research/ar/introduction.html
- Invisible Train - http://studierstube.icg.tu-graz.ac.at/invisible_train/
- Kitchen of the Future - http://web.media.mit.edu/~jackylee/kitchen.htm
- Life Clipper (Wearable computing) - http://www.torpus.com/lifeclipper/
- Mobile Augmented Reality System (MARS) - http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/graphics/projects/mars/
- NASA World Wind - http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
- NYU Media Research Lab - http://www.mrl.nyu.edu/research.html
- Sony Computer Science Lab List (long list but good resources) - http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/project/ar/ref.html
- Things That Think - http://ttt.www.media.mit.edu/research/ConsortiumPubWeb.pl?ID=17
- Tangible Bits - http://tangible.media.mit.edu/projects/
- USC Computer Graphics and Immersive Technologies - http://graphics.usc.edu/cgit/index.php
- Wearable Computing - MIT - http://www.media.mit.edu/wearables/
- Wearable Computer Lab - http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/
Second Life
PLEASE NOTE: These links were live when place here. However, due to he fluid nature of Second life, the group cannot gaurentee hat these links are still valid.
The University of Arizona in Second Life
- Arizona Island - http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Arizona/157/176/27
- Life in the Universe - http://slurl.com/secondlife/LivingintheUniverse/26/188/251
Education - Informal
- Apollo Landing Site - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Elon/131/230/501
- Campus Second Life - http://slurl.com/secondlife/LivingintheUniverse/26/188/251
- Chilbo Museum - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Chilbo/156/32/94
- Cystic Fibrosis University - http://slurl.com/secondlife/BOOMER%20ISLAND/45/84/28
- Democracy Island - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Democracy%20Island/156/174/27
- Genome Island - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Genome/137/87/29
- Heart Murmur Sim - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Waterhead/125/56/32
- Living in the Universe (UA) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/LivingintheUniverse/130/128/21
- NOAA - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Meteora/176/161/27
- Old Globe Theater - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Renaissance%20Island/197/53/27
- Real-time Airport simulation - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Daden%20Prime/208/181/26
- Science School (Science Friday) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Science%20School/180/131/28
- Second Louvre Museum - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tompson/153/96/100
- Second Nature - Cool Science Stuff - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Second%20Nature/135/97/23
- Sistine Chapel - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Vassar/102/112/27
- SploLand (science) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/SploLand/182/75/25
- Temple of Isis - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Themiskyra/72/240/37
Education - Schools and Universities
- Bradley University - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bradley%20University/99/129/25
- Clemson - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Clemson%20University%20GS/25/14/43
- DePaul University - School of DTI - http://slurl.com/secondlife/DePaul%20CTI/212/93/27
- EduIsland - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland/122/127/23
- Elon University (Apollo Landing Site) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Elon/125/126/28
- Esperance - Australian Film, TV, and Radio School - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Esperance/77/141/28
- Glendale Community College - http://slurl.com/secondlife/GCCAz/19/222/23
- ISTE
- Aquarium - http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/148/181/749
- Auditorium - http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/215/50/23
- Innovation Exchange - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland%20II/155/146/22
- Main Office - http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/90/79/30
- Old main Office - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland/37/230/29
- Skypark - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland/52/204/550
- MIT - http://slurl.com/secondlife/MIT/57/27/23
- Montclaire State - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Montclair%20State%20CHSS/212/216/22
- Northern Illinois University in DeKalb Illinois - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Glidden/147/166/27
- Nottingham University - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Taean/201/97/83/
- Ohio University - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ohio%20University/32/50/26
- Open University - http://slurl.com/secondlife/cetlment%20island/149/89/29
- San Diego State University - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Meadowbrook/220/83/23
- University of California, Davis - Virtual Hallucinations - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sedig/25/40/22
- University of Cincinnati - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland/176/210/23
- University of Edinburgh - Msc in Elearning - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Vue%20South/153/246/23
- University of Idaho - http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Idaho/135/131/36
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cybrary%20City/248/144/24
- University of Southern California, Annenburg School - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Annenberg%20Island/128/128/21
- University of Texas at Dallas - Accessibility Island - http://slurl.com/secondlife/UTD%20Accessibility/128/128/101
- Virginia Tech - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/49/197/32/
- Vassar (Including Sistine Chapel) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Vassar/102/112/27
- Victoria University - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Victoria%20University/189/131/23
Languages
- French: Gaia, Gaia (226, 48, 34)
- French: Paris 1900, Paris 1900 (10,170,16)
- German: Biergarten, Mann (167, 255, 24)
- Italian: Parioli Rome Italy, Parioli (105, 214, 40)
- Japanese: Nagaya (Little Kyoto), Juho (89,165,63)
- Spanish: Cervantes, Cervantes (101, 163, 21)
Also see the SLObserver, a Franch-language blog about Second Life.
Other Educational
- ACHUB (Music and Video) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Audio/63/131/31
- Ohio Learning Nentwork - http://slurl.com/secondlife/OLN%20Island/128/127/26/
- Orientation Island - Public - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Orientation%20Island%20Public/100/171/33
- School of Hotel & Tourism Management - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Polyusotel/128/128
Interesting Places
- Atreides Palace - Dune - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dune/204/205/398
Building