The Imagined Space of The Web 2.0 Classroom

Note that SCUP–45 plenary speaker, and SCUPer, Mark Valenti (of The Sextant Group) is one of our own experts in this realm. His presentation will bring you the state of the art!

Trent Batson, writing in Campus Technology magazine, explores physical classrooms and virtual classrooms, and the influences that one type may have on the design of the other:

Accommodating technology, that is, making it usable in a room, does require many changes: Rooms should be square or rounded instead of rectangular since sight-lines and visual display of information is now as important as the sound of voices; moving furniture for different ways to work with technology should not cause a sudden roar of noise, chair and table legs scraping on tile, but instead the soft rolling of table and chair on a soft surface. In other words, new classroom design is not based on unquestioned tradition but is based on new practices developed within the field of media architecture.

Note that SCUP has a Lyris-based email Knowledge Community [smartc] with this topical focus. There are more than 500 practitioners who are members of that often quiescent discussion list.

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Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring:

• March 14–16: Baltimore, MD
• March 24–26: Cambridge, MA
• April 5–7, San Diego, CA