Virtual Worlds: Learning and Teaching in a Digital Age

I am writing a paper for a workshop at the Flexible Learning conference that I am running next week here at Heriot-Watt. I am working on the paper together with a 3rd year student, and lo and behold, we don’t just talk about Web 2.0 tools, we have been using them while preparing the talk.

While Google Docs & Spreadsheets is great for Excel and okay for Word it doesn’t work with PowerPoint. Thinkfree, however, once we had cracked how to use it, is brilliant for PPT.

We were also collaborating via good old MSN and Bebo.

Interestingly, though, when we worked on the real meat (abstract, concept, activities, main content) we did that meeting F2F. Now what does that tell us about the way we humans prefer to work? Hmmm …