an educational use for twitter - a blog I'm going to read - and libraries and Kindles

Today's Wired Campus profiles a professor who shows a live Twitter stream from his students in conjunction with his normal curricular materials:

"Cole W. Camplese, director of education-technology services at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, prefers to teach in classrooms with two screens — one to project his slides, and another to project a Twitter stream of notes from students."

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3705/professor-encourages-students-to-pass-notes-during-class-via-twitter

This is an idea we could try in workshops, training sessions - and the first real use of Twitter for active learning that makes sense to me.

In other news, I discovered a that Ellen Wagner - formerly head Education person at Macromedia and then Adobe - has a blog: ELearning Roadtrip - with a motto:  Sustaining innovation and accelerating mainstream adoption of learning technology solutions"

http://elearningroadtrip.typepad.com/elearning_roadtrip/

I met Ellen a couple of times at various conferences and events, and always felt like her thinking was ahead of the curve. 

Finally..it was fun to see our local Howe library profiled in a Library Journal article about lending out Kindle's.

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6649814.html?rssid=191

Seems our local world is taking some steps towards experimenting with how digital books can be leveraged for readers.  I think it is ironic that the Library world seems to have been consumed by what Google is doing - where the real story is the power that Amazon has with it's Kindle and ownership of Audible.  We need to find ways to license these services to allow lending.