The Story of My “Second Life”

Snapshot_001 Originally uploaded by kjarrett. Had the opportunity yesterday to lead a brief tour for some of Jeff Utecht’s (Utes Torok in SL) students from Plymouth State University. We met for about an hour starting at ISTE HQ. Utes and I were joined by Camad Simpson, Karter Back, and Orion Oceanlane, and I think for [...]

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Know anyone in the Syracuse, NY area looking for a greak preK-12 technology gig? Sandy Wagner, Coordinator of Technology at the Auburn Enlarged City School District wants a Technology Staff Development Specialist (46kb .PDF) for a September 1st start. Sandy is Teacher Spitteler in Second Life and an active member of the Second Life educational [...]

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Voice in SL Originally uploaded by kjarrett. Tried out the First Look Viewer (voice client) @ ISTE HQ this evening and it was for the most part outstanding! I’m shown here chatting with Floria Belmont who gave me a whole folder full of default voice animations that make your avatar move (somewhat realistically) as you [...]

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error.jpg Originally uploaded by kjarrett. Have never had ANY problems with SL to this point … last night, I installed the First Look Voice Client, and was impressed with it, so I decided I’d use it as my default. Installed it on my Macbook Pro as well, then today, I find I can’t log in [...]

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Reports of religious organizations operating in Second Life are fairly old news, but this MSNBC story* quotes an article from the Jesuit journal La Civilta Cattolica in which academic Antonio Spadaro urges people to not to judge Second Life without first seeing and exploring it themselves: “It’s not possible to close our eyes to this [...]

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Newly-minted Global Kids employee Meghan Deana pinged me via Skype this AM to excitedly share about her new job, she was recently hired at their NYC office, and one of her projects is the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) Machinima Camp being held on the Teen Grid from July 23 to August 23, [...]

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Snapshot_001 Originally uploaded by kjarrett. It is truly great to see how a little hard work by a few people, notably RavenPhoenix Zenovka, Corrine Fleury, Zsuzsa Tomsen, and others, can literally transform ISTE Thursday night socials from mass-hysteria virtual mosh-pits into organized, focused, purposeful conversation. Ever since Kitty put these campfire pits (the most realistic [...]

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In the days before the web as we know it today, there were email listservs, and one of the finest is bit.listserv.edtech, (raise your hand if you remember DejaNews!) It continues to thrive today, thanks to the good people over at H-Net. Wonderful list, if you don’t read it, you should. Anyway … David M. [...]

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Teacher Networking Center Originally uploaded by kjarrett. Hi everyone, EduIsland II has grown a lot in the past few months but I’d like to specifically mention this newest venture by Pia Klaar and Tek Zeno. The Teacher Networking Center is a brand-new organization designed to bring teachers together from all over the world. They are [...]

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As I sit here continuing to mull my contribution to the discussion Sylvia has started, I received an email from fellow Walden faculty member Patrick Ganz, who pointed me to this article on Boston.com: Hub of the online universe: City plans a virtual Boston This article is sure to generate controversy at some levels in [...]

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