The Story of My “Second Life”

Hi everyone, FYI, I’ll be giving a brief (30 minute) online presentation tonight, July 31st, at 7:30 pm EDT, as part of the 2010 Reform Symposium, a free, three-day, online conference for educators, administrators, parents and students. My session is called entitled “Second Life in Education … an introduction.” You can check out the full [...]

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I’ve had this Jeff Barr blog post, Becoming an Effective Second Life Presenter, in my Del.icio.us links for a while and have been meaning to share it. It’s got some good advice, particularly for people new to Second Life. It’s fairly old (November 2006!) but that doesn’t diminish the value of the advice. So check [...]

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This just in from the ISTE Listserv … in case you missed it: Please join us tonight (Monday, 8/20) at 6 PM SLT for a presentation by Gus Plisskin, RL: Fred Fuchs, who will talk about FireSabre’s Virtual Campus on Teen SL. The Campus is developed and managed through partnership between FireSabre Consulting and Global [...]

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Technology waves usually reach the shores of Southern New Jersey a bit later than the rest of the world, not a criticism, just a statement, something I’ve observed over the years … so when just five people (two of whom were friends) came to my Second Life presentation yesterday at the Southern Regional ETTC’s 7th [...]

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“Join us to discuss how we can work with educators on Eye4You and connect with other projects on MG (ELVEN, ISTE, etc.) to promote each other/connect in SL. Meeting will be led by Fleet Goldenberg and Dewey Jung.” Location: EduIsland II, (26, 64, 21) SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland%20II/37/66/21 Sunday, May 6th 9am SLT/PDT, 12pm EDT

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Great writeup here on the NMC blog regarding our presentation Monday night. The quality of the discussions sparked by the group, particularly thanks to Peggy Sheehy, made the event far more enlightening than just another one-sided, boring, talking-head gig. I am pleased to say that thanks to the awesome audience, and my colleagues Victoria Gloucester [...]

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About 30 avatars or so made it to tonight’s session. Victoria and Clare were fantastic, as I knew they would be, without them I’d be lost in SL. Chat log is archived here and Corwin Carillon has some photos of his own here. Thank you, Corwin and NMC, for having us, and thank you, Clare [...]

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Corwin Carillon (aka Nick Noakes) over at the New Media Consortium contacted me about speaking at an upcoming Teacher’s Buzz regarding the work I’m doing in SL, so naturally, I’ve asked Victoria Gloucester and Clare Lane to join me for the session … and hope some of you will be able to as well. This [...]

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