evolve.

Click the screen icon to watch full-screen or click here to see a medium-large size on Blip.tv’s main site.

The last month has been incredibly busy for me. One of the things that was keeping me busy was working on this video/screencast introducing the Social Media Classroom to the world. And now, just after making this video, we have a working name for the software component. We’re calling it “Colab” (or possibly “Co-lab”) which is inspired by the collaboration we hope it helps to foster in a student’s work, and the term “collaboratory,” which according to William Wulf’s definition is a,

“center without walls, in which the nation’s researchers can perform their research without regard to physical location, interacting with colleagues, accessing instrumentation, sharing data and computational resources, [and] accessing information in digital libraries”

We’re continuing to develop the core of the system, a site to host it on, and a framework of support materials, as well as Howard’s Social Media curriculum, which was the original genesis of this project. Check back here for a post when we have a public site!

Thanks to the rest of the SMC Team: Howard Rheingold (his update), Sam Rose and Max Senges.