Literature, Google Earth, and Writing for the Web

We Tell Stories will publish six pieces of "digital fiction" in the next six weeks, using a variety of interactive platforms to tell/show/reveal the story. The first uses Google Earth to track the movements of a man "in the wrong place, at the wrong time".

Ewan McIntosh, one of my favorite bloggers on learning, teaching, and and Web 2.0 posts a number of links to blogs by and published interviews with project authors.

How amazing it would be to create course assignments using similar technologies.

YouTube in Education

Here's a sampling of other institutions who have YouTube channels.
University of California, Berkeley: http://www.youtube.com/ucberkeley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: http://youtube.com/mit
Duke University: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=DukeUniversityNews
Purdue University: http://youtube.com/purdue
Princeton’s UChannel: http://www.youtube.com/user/uchannel
Auburn University: http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=AuburnUniversity&p=v
Old Dominion University: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=odu
Carnagie Mellon University: http://www.youtube.com/user/carnegiemellonu
Vanderbilt University: http://www.youtube.com/user/VanderbiltUniversity
University of Notre Dame: http://www.youtube.com/user/NDdotEDU

UWB's channel isn't full-fledged like these examples yet (it requires an institutional commitment that must be approved by YouTube), but hopefully we'll get there!

UW Bothell's YouTube channel!

University of Washington Bothell has its own YouTube channel! It's still young, but check it out!

Here's one video featured on the channel: