Collaboration
Upcoming NERCOMP workshop "New Models for Collaboration: Technology Supported Cooperative Work"
Posted August 14th, 2009 by lisagatesphd@gm...
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Registration now open for NERCOMP's Sept. 15 workshop: "New Models for Collaboration: Technology
Supported Cooperative Work." See http://www.nercomp.org/events/event_single.aspx?id=5807 for details.
Turbo-Charged Wikis: Technology Embraces Cooperative Learning
Posted February 16th, 2009 by Jon F. Orech, Downers Grove South High School
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Jon Orech offers suggestions and resources for use of wikis in the classroom.
Looking at Learning, Looking Together: Collaboration across Disciplines on a Digital Gallery
Posted January 7th, 2009 by Joseph Ugoretz and Rachel Theilheimer
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What does it mean for two community college colleagues, teaching in very different disciplines, to work together on a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project? What happens when they join together to examine their students' work, their individual teaching practice, and the possibilities for collaborative research? And what do they learn when they undertake an electronic publication of that work in a digital gallery?
NERCOMP Event: "Collaboration: Empowering Active Learning through the Application of Technology
Posted April 16th, 2008 by lisagatesphd@gm...
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Seats are still
available for NERCOMP's upcoming workshop on May 13th: "Collaboration:
Empowering Active Learning through the Application of
Technology."
http://www.nercomp.org/events/event_single.aspx?id=1337
The Virtual Observatory and the Roman de la Rose: Unexpected Relationships and the Collaborative Imperative
Posted December 16th, 2007 by Sayeed Choudhury and Timothy L. Stinson, Johns Hopkins University
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Scientists were not always good collaborators. In pondering the "unprecedented convergence of interest across C.P. Snow's Two Cultures in the promise of cyberinfrastructure and of data-driven research," the computer scientist/digital librarian Sayeed Choudhury and medieval scholar Timothy Stinson propose a new relationship between humanities scholars, their resources and their colleagues.
Open Source Software Tools: Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration
Posted December 11th, 2007 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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Tim Berners-Lee presented the second annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC) yesterday at the Fall Task Force meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). $650,000 in prize money went to 10 nonprofits for "leadership in the collaborative development of open source software tools with application to scholarship in the arts and humanities."
While more information is available on the CNI site, the winners are as follows:
- American Museum of the Moving Image (Astoria, NY: www.movingimage.us) for the development and release of the OpenCollection museum collection management system (www.opencollection.org) [$100,000].
- Duke University (Durham, NC: www.duke.edu) for leadership and development work on the OpenCroquet open source 3-D virtual worlds environment (www.opencroquet.org)[$100,000].
- Open Polytechnic of New Zealand (Wellington, NZ: www.openpolytechnic.ac.nz) for leadership and development work on several open source projects including the New Zealand Open Source Virtual Learning Environment (http://eduforge.org/projects/nzvle/) [$100,000].
- Georgia Public Library Service of the University System of Georgia (Atlanta, GA: www.georgialibraries.org) for the development and release of the Evergreen open-source library automation system (www.open-ils.org) [$50,000].
- Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT: www.middlebury.edu) for the development and release of the Segue interactive learning management system [$50,000].
- Participatory Culture Foundation (Worcester, MA: www.participatoryculture.org) for the development and release of the open source Miro media player (www.getmiro.com) [$50,000].
- Talboks-och Punkstkriftsbiblioteket (The Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille: Enskede, Sweden: www.tpb.se) for the development and release of open source tools supporting the Daisy Project for talking books for the visually impaired [$50,000].
- University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana, IL: www.illinois.edu): one award for the development and release of the Firefox Accessibility Extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1891) [$50,000]; and one award for the development and release of the OpenEAI enterprise application integration project (www.openEAI.org) [$50,000].
- University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario: www.utoronto.ca) for the development and release of the ATutor learning management system (www.atutor.ca) [$50,000].
Group Scribbles Collaborative Tool
Posted September 10th, 2006 by John Ottenhoff, Associated Colleges of the Midwest
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The Center for Technology in Learning at SRI International is pleased to announce the beta release of Group Scribbles, a new cross-platform collaborative tool that enables educators to rapidly design new group learning activities without the need for programming.
