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I don't know much about Second Life, and while it might have some elements that I could do without, I was thinking that this could tie nicely into a formal or informal Web 2.0 learning platform, game based learning, and Produsage. What do you think?

Second Life creeps me out too. I've tried exploring what it is, but I think it just boils down to me thinking that I would have to be dissatisfied with my first life to indulge in a second one. There was a season of The Office devoted to this, I think. It also doesn't help that the only Second Life example I have ever seen was the one that shares the thoughts and visuals of a schizophrenic and that the graphics look like the Grand Theft Auto video game (one that my little brother played WAY too much). I know all of what I just typed is silly (although true for me) because some really great things are coming out of Second Life. I have a friend who is working on her doctorate in ISD at the University of Southern Alabama, and she put a lot of work into a research on using Second Life to rehabilitate long-term prison inmates, prior to their release. She ultimately chose another topic for her thesis, but her work showed astounding results. Before learning about her work, I assumed Second Life was nothing more than a glorified Sims game.

To some degree, I agree Denise that its a little creepy. Especially since there are a lot of undesireable elements (at least to me) that seem to permeate the S.L. landscape. However, I am fascinated with using a virtual world setting to encourage learning because people tend to "get in to it" better when its in an environment that they can relate too.

A blog on produsage and how it allows people to be a part of the social media they consume.

Interesting article -- introduces idea of "creation spaces" Some of you might find some inspiration here for Produsage 1.

Use of twitter to share or re-enact great novels

I think web 2.0 storytelling is a great way to keep the students motivated, to help their knowledge construction through collaboration, and to enable the teacher to formative evaluate and monitor the learning process.

Cool article. I love storytelling, both telling and listening. This would take it to the next level of not just telling/listening but actively involving yourself in a story with others. Its like the produsage of storytelling where people, while not changing the outline of the original story, get to create, organically, all the inbetweens. Thanks V.

I stumbled on this and wanted to share this if anyone wants to take the time to read about Web 2.0 and online communities. There is a lot of stuff we already know, but a lot that we don't know. Seems like this fits right in with Produsage.

Here is the description from Edmodo: "Edmodo provides a safe and easy way for your class to connect and collaborate, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices. Our goal is to help educators harness the power of social media to customize the classroom for each and every learner." Is it another Blackboard? Or not? A feature for this tool is that you can choose to get mobile notifications of updates from the teacher.

I have a user profile on Edmodo, and I am now being asked to use it by my administration team at my school. It kind of reminds me of Facebook in a professional sense.

This looks really promising. I'm going to look into this more and perhaps use this as my portal for the produsage assignment. Thanks for sharing Shuang!