The Story of My “Second Life”

JoKay and Sean – Intro Originally uploaded by kjarrett At last night’s ISTE Speaker Series event about 40 avatars gathered by the campfire rings for a very special presentation by Jokay Wollongong (RL: Jo Kay) and Sean McDunnough (RL: Sean Fitzgerald). While the presentation board pictured here doesn’t look out of the ordinary, the highlight [...]

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Party at Konrad’s EduCon build in SL Originally uploaded by kjarrett Immersed in EduCon2 since 5pm Friday, Second Life has come up more than a few times, thanks to Peggy Sheehy, Marianne Malmstrom, Konrad Glogowski and other SL’ers who are here at the conference. Peggy and I even earned the wrath of David Jakes who [...]

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ISTE Machinima Social Originally uploaded by kjarrett This week’s Thursday Night ISTE Social featured a presentation by our own Knowclue Kidd (RL: Marianne Malmstrom) who is putting together ISTE’s first-ever collaborative machinima project. Details are here: http://knowclue.com/ISTE.html. Basically, she’s a brilliant artist, educator and technology goddess working to help create machinima that showcases ISTE and [...]

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Schome Park Beta Originally uploaded by kjarrett My Teen Second Life Club students were chomping at the bit yesterday after school, dying to access Schome Park for the first time in nearly a month. The site had been down for extensive renovation and launch of a new sim. The opening was delayed several weeks while [...]

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Goedeke Messmer @ ISTE Island Originally uploaded by kjarrett Last night at ISTE, Goedeke Messmer (RL: John Lopez) and Butch Dae (RL: George Kurtz) presented their prototype Second Life mind map application during our weekly Speaker Series event. About 40 avatars attended this ‘hands on’ session that involved a voice presentation by Goedeke (yes it [...]

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Raced home Friday afternoon right after school just in time to catch most of the Second Life presentation by Mr. Paulo Casaca (pictured below), the first member of the European Parliament to speak in Second Life. It was hosted by Irah Anatine on her sim, Babel. As I settled into my seat, I enabled the [...]

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My Second Life friend Irah Anatine (RL: Ana Alves), the person behind The Babel Project, is hosting a meeting in Second Life you should check out. Mr. Paulo Casaca, a Member of the European Parliament in Portugal’s Socialist Party, will be speaking on Friday, January 18th at 12:00 Noon SLT at Irah’s sim, Babel: Although [...]

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Yesterday we had (as far as I know) the first ever back-to-back (almost!) presentations on ISTE Island. There were a few bumps along the way, but overall both sessions were each a great success, thanks to our talented speakers, outstanding volunteer helpers, and ISTE’s terrific meeting space. Some photos from the event can be found [...]

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ISTE’s Speaker Series for 2008 is starting to take shape! We are working on a great program for you this year and are hoping/planning to bring new voices into the conversation, particularly with folks outside of the USA. January’s events are listed here: http://secondlife.iste.wikispaces.net/events. Next week is a first-ever “Twofer Tuesday,” with presentations at 3pm [...]

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So I’m getting ready to give an after-school workshop on VoiceThread and I decided to search for VoiceThreads tagged ‘Education.’ This is what I saw. “Whoa!” is right! Intrigued, I watched one, and then headed over to SecondlifeEnglish.com. I knew that Second Life was being used for English language instruction but I had no idea [...]

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