Social Media Virtual Classroom

• Grant Amount: $61,000 (Knowledge Networking award)
• Principal Investigator: Howard Rheingold, Howard Rheingold's blog

Project Summary

The Social Media Virtual Classroom will develop an online community for teachers and students to collaborate and contribute ideas for teaching and learning about the psychological, interpersonal, and social issues related to participatory media. This digital learning space will both feature and analyze the use of blogs, wikis, chat, instant messaging, microblogging, forums, social bookmarking and instructional screencasts for teachers and students.