The Story of My “Second Life”

As cool as Second Life is … sometimes little experiences come along that remind us of what really matters. -kj-

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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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Here’s Don Bain from Electric Sheep wowing the crowd with Dan Krueger driving the machinima, videos and SL client. TEH HOTNESSS!!11!!

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I’m off on a personal day today, presenting at a Drexel eLearning 2.0 conference in Philadelphia. I was asked by my friend and colleague Ken Hartman to join him and Don Bain of Electric Sheep to talk about Second Life. Unfortunately, Don can’t stay because the Virtual Worlds 2007 conference is also today (and yesterday). [...]

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My teen alt, Digital Mincemeat (actually my first SL avatar with a new skin and several strategic dorkifications) was transferred to the Teen Grid this week. I’m so excited I can barely type! The thought of watching, working, and interacting with the kids (a mixture of SL veterans and newbies) on Ramapo Islands is positively [...]

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Can’t believe it … on April 9th, Catherine Parsons (a.k.a. Victoria Gloucester) and I will be spending the ENTIRE DAY at Suffern Middle School in Suffern, NY … working with teachers and students in RL as well as in-world (Clare – I’m told all our alts should be on-campus by then – so you can [...]

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I’ve been having problems keeping up with the SL in Education Mailing lists on SimTeach from the get-go. Enormous digests, some coming within a day of others, usually sit in my inbox, mocking my inability to scrape together the time to read them. The web-based SLED archive is one, albeit imperfect, solution. You can also [...]

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Here is a group of folks trying out the conference facilities at ISTE HQ last night. From left to right: Lucy Daffodil (Lucy Gray in RL, whom I met at the Google Teacher Academy), KJ Hax (me), Kathy Dryburgh (Kathy Schrock), and FrenchHorn Pinion (ISTE President Kurt Steinhaus). And this are only just a few [...]

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“I want to kill you in this game.” – [Avatar Name Withheld] Early on my shift as ISTE Docent last Tuesday, I had wandered down the steps to the common “lawn” area just in front of ISTE HQ to provide assistance to someone looking to explore EduIsland. An avatar approached me as that conversation finished. [...]

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Project Week Number(s): 03 & 4 Report Period: 12-Mar to 25-Mar 1) Accomplishments: Third and fourth weeks of the project, ~ 49 hours (!) in-world; four volunteer “docent” sessions at ISTE HQ; presented at the ISTE Monday Night “Educator Show & Tell” at the ISTE SkyPark, and also watched ; several meetings with the Gaming [...]

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