Recommended Resources in E-learning

- Trends & Tools in E-learning (Bonk/KJ Kim)
- Cool Resources in K-12
- Faculty Resistance in E-learning
- CALICO mailing list archives

Forums and Community

In the era of Web 2.0, the world is brought together through many web-based social networks. Anybody with access to the Internet doesn't need programming skills can publish in professional ways that were hardly imaginable a decade ago.   Now, all these social networks, such as Facebook, hi5, orkut, Ning, Friendster, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Oracle, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, XING and tons out there are not stopping. Google has recently gathered the great developers of these social networks together to talk about how they can work together in making social experiences on the web virtually limitless!!!

Thanks, friends.  The most important question for us educators is how we can best utilize these new opportunities.

Blogs/ Articles

- Personal blogs(old)
- Spirituality in Education (on hold)
- Critical Thinking in a Thai Public Forum presented at CALICO 04,
     CMU, PA
- e-Education for all when the national IT policy lacks pedagogical spirits:
A case of e-Thailand, submitted to the E-ducation Without Borders Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Feb. 19-21, 2005.

 Recommended resources on pedagogy and technology:

• A resource site in Ireland: Some interesting instructional materials and tests

• Constructivist Teaching Practices and Principles
  An excerpt from: Curtis J. Bonk and Donald J. Cunningham, "Searching for Learner-Centered, Constructivist, and Sociocultural Components of Collaborative Educational Learning Tools," Electronic Collaborators, Bonk and King, eds., 1998, pp. 33-34.

• Beyond the Individual-Social Antimony in Discussions of Piaget and Vygotsky -- by Michael Cole, University of California, San Diego and James V. Wertsch, Washington University, St. Louis

• Constructivism: From philosophy to practices

• Vygotsky's Distinction Between Lower and Higher Mental Functions and Recent Studies on Infant Cognitive Development -- by Eugene Subbotsky

• Net Teach Listing of Teaching and Learning on the Internet -- Martin Ryder, University of Colorado

For friends from around the world:

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