The Story of My “Second Life”

It was the last session on the last day of NECC, but you wouldn’t have known it. The room was PACKED, standing room only, approximately 120-130 people. Peggy, Bernajean and Marianne were fantastic, the kids were too, their work spoke for itself. We managed to UStream it wirelessly, I’m not sure about the quality, I’ve [...]

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My “day job” supervisor (and soon-to-be Second Life Junkie) Dr. Carol Ferguson just forwarded me this link to eSN’s 8/20 TechWatch broadcast, “Virtual worlds … Real instruction.” It’s viewable below, just push the play button. Contents Copyright 2007 eSchool News. All rights reserved. It’s neat to see the (brief but positive) coverage of the Second [...]

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In yet another vivid example of the NECC I managed somehow to miss, Ryan Bretag (Existential Paine) and Jennifer Wagner (Macsmom Alcott) have teamed up to bring the wildly popular “blogger’s cafe” from NECC onto the web and into SL. Jen registered the domain, Ryan is redecorating his place on EduIsland II, and the rest [...]

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Thanks, Mark Wagner (and Scott Merrick for the heads up) … this 40 second TeacherTube video was taken at what seems to be close to the height of activity at the SL Playground on Monday, June 25th … I can spot several RL avatars belonging to … Kittygloom Cassady, Kyle Thorn, Clare Lane, Scottmerrick Oh, [...]

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Hi everyone, Some of you are still at NECC – hope you are enjoying the conference! I had to leave Monday but I got a ton of great pics. I know MOST people’s names but thought I would ask you all to identify yourselves and/or anyone you recognize. Just add them as a comment and [...]

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Special thanks to Zsuzsa Tomsen for shooting and producing this brief video of Scott Merrick presenting at the Birds of a Feather session at NECC on Monday, June 25th. Jeremy Koester presented with him in-world and you can clearly hear the audio. I literally walked away from this session on the way to the airport [...]

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Hard to believe this is my last day but I’m outta here before dinnertime this evening so I can get home in time to attend that Grant Wiggins Understanding by Design workshop for the rest of the week. It stinks to have to leave this place and all these people, many of whom I have [...]

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After a full day at the conference yesterday, our intrepid group headed out to dinner at the Brazilian equivalent of an Olive Garden in downtown Atlanta. We were joined by Gary Stager and Sylvia Martinez, and later by Peggy Sheehy and her daughter Megan (at 9pm). The food was amazing (the Pao de Queijo were [...]

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Ok, so registration opens in half an hour, and we’re all planning to meet there, I think, and grab some breakfast. Then I’ve got some time to kill before heading over to  EduBloggerCon at 9am in room B308, which is where I’ll be until the 1pm workshop I’m attending, Social Networking and Cyberspace Safety: The [...]

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