The Story of My “Second Life”

My friend and colleague Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach recently wrote an outstanding article I’d like to share: The Art of Building Virtual Communities …which was summarized neatly here: Virtual Communities as a Canvas of Educational Reform And it has me thinking and planning and reflecting on the communities I’ve helped build in Second Life as well as [...]

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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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Just came across this fascinating tool, a product of the KnowledgeWorks Foundation: Here’s a demo of the map which explains how to use it. Basically, you navigate the squares on the map, and they expand when you click, providing definitions/more information and links to embedded forums where you can discuss the issues with other visitors. [...]

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Here at c|net, at least, with several reasonably relevant articles … then we’ve got this gem over at ABCNews.com, Second Life Gets ‘Real’ at Conference, which is completely devoid of any mention of the education track (guess that doesn’t generate clicks or sell advertising) … Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over … anyone at MacArthur or the [...]

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http://www.molotovalva.com/ Originally uploaded by kjarrett. Another amazing day at SLCC, another day without wireless, more scattered notes in .RTF files on my desktop, all blog entries to be written. No regrets other than not prodding Peg and Catherine Parsons (SL: Victoria Gloucester) to submit a session proposal back when we had the chance, Ramapo Islands [...]

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Global Kids … DELIVER Originally uploaded by kjarrett. Finally have Internet connectivity for the first time since leaving my room this morning (why isn’t the Internet I am paying $12.95 a day for available ELSEWHERE in the #^*#$*&^ hotel?) … I figure I can get one reflective posting done before heading to the educator’s meetup [...]

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Forgot to mention we managed to drag KellyKate Flanagan (Kelly Woestman in RL, pictured here on the left) out with us for dinner, which conversation-wise was amazing (food-wise, I’m about done with Brazilian restaurants, thanks.) Kelly happened to arrive just in time to join our intrepid group as we headed out, and it was great [...]

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‘Second Life,’ after the backlash Participants in this weekend’s user conference in Chicago are unfazed by negative press. They just want to go back to their virtual world tinkering. By Caroline McCarthy Staff Writer, CNET News.com Published: August 23, 2007, 4:00 AM PDT http://tinyurl.com/yvrcfx At conference, Second Life meets real life Steve Johnson | Chicago [...]

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Reposting this from the SLED-T listserv, it’s too good not to share, can’t wait to see the session, the YouTube videos are AMAZING. I wish they’d call them “simulations” and not “games,” we have enough to do convincing people that Second Life is NOT a game, LOL… The VITAL Lab at Ohio University has developed [...]

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