Unfortunately, Elluminate can be abused in many of the same ways other tools can, with the caveat that it is probably even MORE damaging– Death by Powerpoint is never so cruel as when it happens via remote.

The question of assessment in a networked classroom is interesting to me from a different perspective. I think there is something to the idea of Connectivism and it seems to me that if information fluency, network building, and participation in the networked world of information can be valuable, there must be some evolution in the way we assess learning to include them. So far I see almost nothing beyond strange extrapolations of the models we use for evaluating papers, essays, and face-to-face communications…