The Story of My “Second Life”

Just came across this video via AJ Kelton. It’s an excellent overview worth sharing with anyone interested in learning about virtual worlds in education. Thanks AJ!

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Good morning all, Please accept my apologies for not posting much in the last few days – the last weeks of school are always hectic, but this year things seem to have been even crazier! Making matters worse, I’ve got two or three supermassive blog posts in my drafts folder, and until I churn them [...]

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It was a gorgeous summer day, absolutely perfect for some quality time behind the wheel of my Grand Prix on the Garden State Parkway. I rolled out around 8:30 am, expecting at least some delays, but about two hours and (approximately) 112.61 blissfully traffic-free miles later, I was at Marc’s doorstep.

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I will be in the car shortly on my way to Maplewood, NJ and the home of young adult author Marc Aronson. Once we get the technical details sorted out, we should be streaming live, probably around 11:00 am EDT. We hope you can join us! Click here for the UStream! Remember, if you want [...]

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Tom Hanson, Editor, OpenEducation.net passed along a couple of articles that got my attention and earned the site a spot on my blogroll. If you’re not reading OpenEducation.net, you should be! Here are the two articles in question: Virtual Worlds Offer Meaningful Educational Opportunities for Children and Virtual Worlds – Westminster Professors Discuss Research Let’s [...]

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Lucy Gray from the University of Chicago tossed me an invite yesterday to the Quest Atlantis Facebook group and I have to say though I’d heard of ActiveWorlds and even Quest Atlantis I’ve never checked it out until now: ActiveWorlds is an education-friendly multi-user virtual environment and Quest Atlantis is a school-based, learning-focused environment with [...]

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