The Story of My “Second Life”

Good morning all, My dear friend and colleague Bernajean Porter is presenting a free webinar tomorrow, January 30 @ 2:00 pm Eastern time in conjunction with ISTE. As she explained in an email to me recently, “it is part of the Thirty-Year Anniversary featuring the gathering of our digital storytelling of how technology has made [...]

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How cool is this … and perfect timing, too! Back in September 2007 I noticed an article about Second Life in the New Jersey Association for Educational Technology’s online journal. It was a stock piece from ISTE, and it was good, but I figured the talented crew of New Jersey-based ISTE Docents here could put [...]

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Passing this along…mark your calendars, Friday, March 7th, 2pm PST! Its going to feature my friends Ferdi Serim (SL: Hodjazz Edman) and Kathy Schrock (SL: Kathy Dryburgh), both of whom I’ve gotten to know extensively thanks to Second Life! Sign up now, and, I’ll see you there! -kj-

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Oh SNAP! Now people coming to ISTE HQ will know when to expect to find a ‘docent’ (guide) there to answer questions. Now all we need is MORE DOCENTS and MORE COVERAGE! Anyone can do this, I’m helping manage the ISTE docent effort, so go ahead, VOLUNTEER! There is a survey inside HQ, fill it [...]

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Here is a group of folks trying out the conference facilities at ISTE HQ last night. From left to right: Lucy Daffodil (Lucy Gray in RL, whom I met at the Google Teacher Academy), KJ Hax (me), Kathy Dryburgh (Kathy Schrock), and FrenchHorn Pinion (ISTE President Kurt Steinhaus). And this are only just a few [...]

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“… and I’ll tell you who you are,” as the expression goes, is certainly true in Second Life. I’m amazed at the quality of people I’ve met in such a short period of time, and, the profound effect they’ve already had on my research. I’m shown here chatting at last night’s ISTE social (Thursdays, 6pm [...]

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Spent about an hour last night at the ISTE HQ in Second Life, as an official ISTE Docent (greeter). It was actually pretty busy, four people came by in the hour I was there, including Thania Slade, an ISTE SL member, but a newbie (much like me) to SL. It was fun getting to know [...]

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I attended a training session the other night at ISTE HQ on how to be a “tour guide” for people who stop in, tonight will be my first “shift” there, 8-9 pm Eastern. Should be … interesting!

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