This one will definitely be helpful for your project.

The "7 Things You Should Know About..." series from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) provides concise information on emerging learning practices and technologies like RSS. Each brief focuses on a single practice or technology and describes what it is, where it is going, and why it matters to teaching and learning. Use "7 Things You Should Know About..." briefs for a no-jargon, quick overview of a topic and share them with time-pressed colleagues.

Course materials online re wikis, RSS geeds, gaming, blogging, virtual worlds, media sharing, etc. by a Toronto librarian and tech geek. Good articles and links.

Links to lots of online collaborative culture sites!

Our wiki!

Some ideas for using technology in the claswsroom. What do you think of these ideas?

Cool article about social networking, including why some adults worry about it. Understandable and interesting. Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Adults often worry about the amount of time that youth spend online, arguing that the digital does not replace the physical. Most teens would agree. It is not the technology that encourages youth to spend time online - it's the lack of mobility and access to youth space where they can hang out uninterrupted.

Do-It-Yourself Broadcasting: Writing Weblogs in a Knowledge Society Very cool article that talks about not opnly blogging, a core paert of participatory culture, but also has some great analysis of how media manipulates our understanding of events. Scroll down to the middle images to see some shocking info re how we were fooled at the beginning of the Iraq War.

"Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars?: Teen fans and movie makers as members of participatory culture. Another long article, but one of you should read and highlight - you'll get some good understanding of participatory culture and how youth are participating in it creatively.

Academic article, but worth digging through and highlighting the bits you understand. Introduces the idea of "collective intelligence" and the way youth understand digital technology.

This study on the effects of gaming concludes that by providing spaces for social interaction and relationships beyond the workplace and home, MMOs have the capacity to function as one form of a new "third place" for informal sociability. Participation in such virtual "third places" appears particularly well suited to the formation of bridging social capital-social relationships that, while not usually providing deep emotional support, typically function to expose the individual to a diversity of worldviews.

Do we have your attention? 2001

Easy to follow and understand! Brief!

Many people worry that reading is turning into a lost art. Technology may now be stepping in to help - with online sites for readers. Avid reader Georgia says, "It's so easy to find information about the book and so easy to find other people are who talking about the book."

This is a long but extremely interesting and understandable paper on the very heart of our topic. It contains many ideas that could spark further investigation.