August 29th, 2008
Washington DC Diary: Social Media Tools in the Academic World
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It’s week three in Washington DC and I have started my research on the “BRIC Model of Social Media” as the Yahoo! Fellow at Georgetown University.
Even as I do my own research, I am endlessly fascinated by my first hand exposure to the use of social media tools in the academic world.
The Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS) at Georgetown University — run by Randall Bass and Eddie Maloney — is driving the education 2.0 thinking at Georgetown. CNDLS runs the Digital Commons platform that allows Georgetown students, faculty, and staff to use blogs, wikis, forums, podcasts, portfolios, posters, timelines and dStories for communication and collaboration. The CNDLS team is setting up has already set up the official “ISD Yahoo! Fellowship Blog” over the weekend and I have a few ideas on how to introduce a wiki and a podcast into the mix during the year. dStories, a multimedia authoring tool that allows you to combine texts, images and audio files into a short film clip — or a digital story — can be quite cool too. This gallery of the CNDLS education 2.0 projects gives a sense of what is possible with these tools.
