The Story of My “Second Life”

Slide1 Originally uploaded by kjarrett Just about ready to walk out the door and start the trek north to Kean University for their Education 2.0 conference that runs today and tomorrow. Heading up with my daughter Holly who is presenting with me in a different preso on Tween Social Networking (which ties in nicely with [...]

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It’s been days since I’ve blogged – crushed with multiple of RL priorities at the moment including preparations for two presos at an upcoming EdTech conference at Kean University starting Friday – but wanted to take a moment to let everyone know that the edublog award voting for 2007 is now underway and the virtual [...]

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Class is in session Originally uploaded by kjarrett Many people and organizations offer free tours of sites in Second Life. One of my SL friends and fellow ISTE Docents, Esme Qunhua, does them every other week with her colleague, Entropy Hax (no relation, LOL). Esme and Entropy have a tour coming up this weekend that [...]

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The Schome Ranger on the prowl Originally uploaded by kjarrett JPSkater777 arranged a popgun game in the sandbox at Schome Park after school today. A half-dozen or so people showed up, and after taking some time to get things organized, the fun began. I wasn’t participating, but I was there to observe and photograph what [...]

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Came across this video by accident the other day and it’s worth the eight or nine minutes it will take to watch. It features many great insights from several panelists: Irving Wladawsky-Berger, VP, IBM; Philip Rosedale, CEO, Linden Lab; Craig Sherman, CEO, Gaia Online; and Chris Melissinos, Chief Gaming Officer, Sun Microsystems. The host, Jaron [...]

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Windlight Viewer – WOW Originally uploaded by kjarrett The Second Life Windlight First Look viewer is now available. I haven’t tried it yet but came across this photo on Topher Zwiers’ MUVE Forward blog … to get the full effect, click the pic, then view at the largest resolution. All I can say is … [...]

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Darkwolf is Interviewed for Teachers.tv Originally uploaded by kjarrett Word came out on Saturday, 11/17 that a film crew from Teachers.tv was coming to the Schome Park RL HQ in Milton Keynes, U.K. to shoot a segment about the project. Our fearless leader, shown here on the right as his avatar, The Schome Ranger, used [...]

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Fleep’s Second Life Whitepaper Originally uploaded by kjarrett Chris Collins (SL: Fleep Tuque), who just moderated the fantastic panel discussion we recently had on ISTE Island, blogs here about several things, including a paper she just co-authored with Nancy Jennings in The Journal of Social Sciences. I first met Chris back in May at the [...]

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This event was last Wednesday night opposite our National Distance Learning Week event at ISTE Island and was streamed into Second Life. (At least one person lamented they could not be in both places at once!) Here is the website providing the background, including pics from the SL venue: http://uscpublicdiplomacy.com/index.php/events/events_detail/2541/ Here is the rebroadcast, a [...]

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I’ll never forget the first time I met Fleet Goldenberg, my landlord on EduIsland II. He was showing several properties on the as-yet-undeveloped green expanse of our island to several other people. Though I wavered on and initially lost an opportunity to lease from him, he came through later, and today, I maintain two properties [...]

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