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24 Jan, 2007

My Second Life

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: General| Skype

Welcome to Edutechie.com! If you’re new here, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!So about a month ago I decided I would check out the online world of Second Life for it’s educational possibilities I kept reading about. 
I logged in, created my own bald (looking only a few [...]

I received an e-mail from a professor (Dick Langston) on campus today informing me that their department (Germanic Languages) will be totally revamping the current curriculum. Their plan right now is to have all incoming students create a blog that they will update during their time in the department. When they leave they [...]

29 Nov, 2006

Educational Gaming Has to Engage the Students… but How?

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: General| Skype

If you have been following the news lately you have probably read about some of the educational efforts right now to integrate online multi-player games like Eve-Online, Second Life and World of Warcraft into classroom learning environments, or at least harness the popularity and power of the games in an attempt to encourage learning among [...]


About Jeff

I am an Academic Computing Expert at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I love Google, Mac's, and Web Technologies that help us better reach, teach, connect, and prepare students to solve the world's greatest problems.

About Anthony

I am 20 years old, and a Sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My hobbies involve going to the gym, spending time with friends, and messing around on my computer. I am a Computer Science major right now, but there is too much math for my liking, so I am considering a switch to the Journalism School specifically multimedia design).