A Seesmic+Sprout use in Education with Howard Rheingold

[by Jeremy Vaught, Community Blogger - Seesmic]

Almost since the very beginning of Seesmic, Educators were trying to use this medium for the benefit of communicating more effective with their students.  Quite a few educators and run expirements here on Seesmic to test the limits.  And finally, when I was helping man the booth we had recently at the New Media Expo, I talked to a LOT of educators that are still thinking these thoughts, and see Seesmic as a powerful tool in and out of the classroom.

Enter, Howard Reingold, who has a personal site, his Seesmic page, as well as a Wikipedia entry.  Howard is talking about using Social Media in education at SmartMobs.com and Hastac.org.

Here at Seesmic, we are thrilled that Howard is using the video conversation as the natural choice to discuss these ideas and participate with others to improve the educational process, particularly for this conversation which naturally is 'participatory learning'.  At SmartMobs, Howard is using Seesmic in conjunction with Sprout, which help you widgitize web content and put it where you want it, including Seesmic.  For more information about Sprout, please check out our previous post announcing our partnership.

Comments

[Cathy Davidson]

We are so grateful to Howard Rheigold for a fabulous conversation on participatory learning, viewed by over 1300 people, with many participants and a great way to kick off the opening of the $2M MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Competition on the same subject. www.dmlcompetition.net and the Seesmic forum: at http://www.hastac.org/scholars/forum/8-25-08Rheingold-participatory-learning