The Story of My “Second Life”

Edutopia is running this excellent interview of James Paul Gee, Professor of Reading at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (2003). Jim was omnipresent at GLS 4.0 this past July (I attended and presented), and can say it is without question THE conference [...]

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Surely, you’ve at least heard the term, even if you’re not a user… Twitter, which is sort of like IM for adults (now that it’s reportedly been abandoned by teens), it can be web-based (which is how I use it) or cell-phone based. It’s also been called “micro-blogging” (you are limited to 140 characters per [...]

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I’ll never forget the first time I met Fleet Goldenberg, my landlord on EduIsland II. He was showing several properties on the as-yet-undeveloped green expanse of our island to several other people. Though I wavered on and initially lost an opportunity to lease from him, he came through later, and today, I maintain two properties [...]

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Those of us who have been in Second Life for a while will likely nod our heads in agreement with much of Kathy’s October 26th post on her Second Life-specific Lighthouse Learning blog. (Kathy is well known to many educators by way of the Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators). In it, she presents a couple [...]

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Write that URL down … now! (Special thanks to Claird Loon for sharing!) This fantastic wikispaces site, http://sleducation.wikispaces.com/, belongs to Jo Kay and Sean FitzGerald and is one of the most comprehensive sites dedicated to the gathering and dissemination of education-related SL resources I’ve seen. It is a veritable one-stop-shop for people learning about SL [...]

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Discovery Educator Network comes to EduIsland II Originally uploaded by kjarrett. Had the chance to meet Steve Dembo in world the other day, Clare and I spent an hour or so with him, talking about the exciting happenings on our island, we are really building an amazing network of educators … you know someone has [...]

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I have always been impressed with Library/Media Specialists, well before I met Peggy Sheehy. It occurred to me years ago that the school media center is quite literally the center of the universe with respect to educational technology – and has been since the beginning. Kathryn Greenhill of Freemantle, Western Australia writes the Librarians Matter [...]

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Dr. Kelly Woestman, Professor of History and Education Director at Pittsburg (Kansas) State University, has a wonderful blog that deals with a variety of edtech subjects issues, not just SL … she’s a veteran educator new to SL that has jumped in with both digital feet. She looks at SL from a variety of perspectives, [...]

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Having bounced back from a hard landing of sorts earlier in the week, I’m back in SL with a vengance, poking around, learning stuff, doing silly things like sitting in fireplaces, meeting and networking with edtech leaders, the usual things. :) The crowd was large (but not to capacity, oddly!) at last night’s NMC Teacher’s [...]

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This comment from Chief Technospud and Women of Web 2 member Jen Wagner came in on one of my other blogs recently. I’ve known Jen for a few years and she has always been a great inspiration. She asks this question: I wanna play! I wanna play!! Convince me that I shouldn’t be afraid of [...]

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