Details on Wednesday’s chat with Howard Rheingold

A couple of weeks back I posted about the upcoming Librarians and the Truth session, with author, professor, and geek thinker Howard Rheingold, that I am hosting with Francey Jacobson Harris. 

Please join us this Wednesday night!

Here are the details via the Future of Education Ning: 

Date: Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am GMT (next day) (international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tinyurl.com/futureofed. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event.

Howard Rheingold is the author of:

• Tools for Thought http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/
• The Virtual Community http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/
• Smart Mobs http://www.smartmobs.com

Was:

• editor of Whole Earth Review http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Review
• editor of The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog http://www.well.com/user/hlr/mwecintro.html
• founding executive editor of Hotwired http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotWired
• founder of Electric Minds http://www.rheingold.com/electricminds/html/
• Non-resident Fellow, Annenberg Center for Communication, USC, 2007 http://www.annenberg.edu/info/rheingold.php
• Visiting Professor, De Montfort University, UK

Has taught:

• Participatory Media and Collective Action (UC Berkeley, SIMS, Fall
• 2005, 2006, 2007 ) http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/participatory_media_and_collective_act…
• http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/programs/courses/296a-pmca
• Virtual Community/Social Media (Stanford, Fall 2007, 2008; UC Berkeley,
• Spring 2008, 2009) http://socialmediaclassroom.com/vircom09
• Toward a Literacy of Cooperation (Stanford, Winter, 2005)
• Digital Journalism (Stanford University Winter, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 )
• http://socialmediaclassroom.com/digitaljournalism09

Current projects:

• Social Media Classroom http://socialmediaclassroom.com
• The Cooperation Project http://www.cooperationcommons.org
• Participatory Media Literacy https://www.socialtext.net/medialiteracy/
• HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation grantee http://tinyurl.com/yqjsmr

Recent Videos:

• 21st century literacies 40 min video http://blip.tv/file/2373937
• JD Lasica’s 6 min video interview with me, same subject: http://bit.ly/eFqeI