Virtual Worlds: Learning and Teaching in a Digital Age

“Tools, such as wordpress, can make a very useful web community, with pages for each contributor.”

This post was created during a session with PhD students on creating a web community and simultaneously promoting one’s research. In the end we chose a WordPress blog with each PhD student as contributor and admin level rights, so that each student could create their own About Me page to advertise their research. In addition, we set up an Omnidrive account for each student, which gives 1 GB of free space and makes it possible to “publish” a document, to then copy the URL into a blog entry or page, thus making research available to the community.

One of the feedback comments after this session? “This is the first time, after having attended all workshops, that I am taking something home, have done a step forward, have enjoyed myself and have really benefited.”

Hooray Web 2.0, I say.