The Story of My “Second Life”

A K-20 educator's grant-funded, four- to six-month, fully-part-time (partially full-time?) immersion into and exploration of the world of "Second Life"


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Entries Tagged as 'Machinima'

SL Tips of the Week can now be streamed in-world

January 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Ok, I admit it. Parroting day-old content from the Official Second Life blog is lame, since many people already read it. But, some do not, so, here goes! Torley Linden’s Tips of the Week are now available in convenient, bite-sized “lofi” Quicktime .MOV formats as well as higher quality .MP4 (great for saving on your [...]

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Sloodle Promo by Gia Rossini & Chris Flow

October 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Ran into Gia tonight on the front steps of ISTE HQ as I was docenting with Clare, asked her what she’s been up to, and she casually mentioned she’d just helped produce this terrific machinima about the SLoodle project … which, in case you’ve not heard about it, is a mashup of Second Life and [...]

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Educational Uses of Second Life

August 30th, 2007 · 4 Comments

Found this on Elizabeth Clark’s blog and thought I’d share, it’s pretty well done, the machinima is excellent and the flow is too, clearly well planned, very effective use of titles and text. Worth favoriting for use in a presentation to people new to Second Life in Education. It was produced by http://elearndev.blogspot.com/. Thanks Elizabeth!

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Free Scripting Classes in SL!

June 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Hey everyone – just got this note from Kristy Flanagan about a free scripting club that should be worth checking out. The first meeting is smack in the middle of NECC, so all of you who are NOT going to Atlanta will have something fun to do WE won’t! :) Here’s the announcement: Emby Semaphore [...]

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Machinima, the ultimate visual learning tool?

May 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Just came across this presentation by Angela Thomas regarding machinima and its potential impact on today’s youth. Yes, it’s true we already have an obesity problem in this country (pot calling the kettle black here) but just think of the talent we could unleash in schools across our country if/when machinima gets big in schools. [...]

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