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Web 2.0 enables companies to build dynamic networking communities and foster ad hoc collaboration. This can be great for businesses, as they can gain insights and feedback in hours instead of weeks or months. However, the trusting, collaborative and open nature of the Web 2.0 environment is precisely what makes it ripe for malicious exploitation. [...]

Allisun O’Connell is a Twitter, Moodle and eLearning enthusiast from Arcata, California. Known as @allisunelearns, she has been using Twitter as a personal learning network since January of 2009, and is currently connected to 400 and counting professionals and teachers involved with higher ed, corporate and K-12 online education, virtual worlds, social media and [...]

By Desi St. Amant
Desi St. Amant is a middle school language arts and AVID teacher in Southern California. She is currently working to earn her MS in Education. As an online student, she has had many opportunities to work on team projects and collaborate with various members of online learning communities.
Introduction
I have come to [...]

By Dmitriy Kalyagin
Dmitriy Kalyagin has been a business instructor at Chabot College in East Bay, California, since 2000. He is currently pursuing the MS degree in Online Teaching and Learning at California State University, East Bay.
Meet Donna H: a California community college student, in her early 50s. Donna worked for many years as [...]

by Betsy Eudey, February 22, 2009
 
Dr. Eudey is the Director and an Associate Professor of Gender Studies at California State University Stanislaus. She has been teaching in women’s and gender studies since 1998, and engaging in online instruction since 2000. She is currently completing an M.S. in Education with an emphasis [...]

By Lisa Miller
Lisa is currently pursuing a master’s degree at CSUEB in Online Teaching and Learning. She works full-time in a busy, metropolitan hospital as a registered respiratory therapist and certified asthma educator. She also teaches a traditional class for nursing that she hopes to transform to an online format.
Once upon a time there was [...]

By Deborah Chigazola, R.D.H., BA
About the author
Deborah is a dental hygienist of 27 years. She is currently second year clinical coordinator at Santa Rosa Junior College. Her interests include expanding the use of online teaching and learning for dental hygiene students. The use of online methods became her passion while completing her masters in education [...]

iParadigms, creator of the Turnitin plagiarism detection service, has released a set of tools designed to help students improve their writing skills through enhanced teacher-student communication and peer collaboration. The Web-based WriteCycle suite of services combines the company’s Turnitin service with its new GradeMark Digital Grading service and a peer review collaboration and feedback tool.
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I Just Like the Real Classroom
By Jodi Gootkin
August 4, 2008
After enrolling in the MS-OTL program at CSU East Bay, I enthusiastically revised my online courses to include best practices and constructivist principles. I felt like Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams. If I build it, they will come. But, will they like playing on a [...]

New Teachers: Alone in the Classroom, Together in the Chatroom
Flint Christensen teaches math at a middle school in Oakland, CA. He is also a candidate for a MS in Education, Option in Online Teaching & Learning from California State University, East Bay.
Introduction
New teachers enter their profession with wild-eyed optimism and equipped with an abundant [...]