The Story of My “Second Life”

Teens on the Main Grid Originally uploaded by kjarrett Last night’s ISTE Speaker Series presentation was one of our most popular ever, attended by approximately 60 avatars. Thanks to the efforts of Bluewings Hayek and Zotarah Shepherd of Eye4You Alliance and Meghan GKid of Global Kids, we were able to present an amazing panel of [...]

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Three Ramapo Musketeers Originally uploaded by kjarrett Had a tremendously productive meeting last night at Knowclue’s lovely home in Englewood, complete with an awesome taco salad and all the tortilla chips we could eat … root beer … and chocolate covered eclair things for dessert … and we actually DID get work done despite all [...]

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Teens on the Main Grid – Event Signage Originally uploaded by kjarrett In a few hours I’ll be in the car on the way to the airport to pick up Bernajean Porter to start our week in Ramapo. We’re first heading up to Knowclue Kidd’s place in nearby Englewood, NJ for little dinner and planning. [...]

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Rockcliffe University SL Campus Originally uploaded by kjarrett Tonight’s 6pm SLT presentation at ISTE Island (we’ll be at the Bandshell, click here for the SLURL) will feature Kevin Feenan (SL: Phelan Corrimal), Dean of Rockcliffe University, “a non-profit institution for the promotion of education and research using virtual models.” To visit Rockcliffe in SL, click [...]

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Planning Meeting Originally uploaded by kjarrett Had a chance yesterday to sit down with Coreina Grace (Global Kids) and Bluewings Hayek (Eye4You Alliance) and several recent teen grid graduates to talk about our upcoming Speaker Series Session on March 25th @ 6pm SLT. Thanks to Coreina’s and Kelly’s contacts, we’ve assembled an amazing panel of [...]

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Here’s a quick little sidebar I wrote to run with an article about Second Life that I, Knowclue Kidd, Zsusa Thomsen, Claird Loon and FIl Santiago worked on together recently. It will appear in the quarterly newsletter for our state ISTE chapter, the New Jersey Association for Educational Technology (NJAET) in a few weeks. Anyway, [...]

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Checking out HTML on a Prim with Sean Originally uploaded by joannamkay Thanks to a tweet by Jokay, I’m reading about the HTML-on-a-prim capabilities of the 1.19.1 Release Candidate and wondering if it’s worth installing just to see what this is all about and how it might be used. I’ve never run a “Release Candidate” [...]

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Just passing this along – came to me via the ISTE Second Life Listserv. I get the week “off” as Speaker Series Chair. WOOT! This session is going to rock, and will allow people from all over the world to participate in real time from the comfort of their own homes, schools or offices. Sweet! [...]

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Just passing this along – came to me via the ISTE Second Life Listserv. -kj- Event Name: ESRC Festival of Social Science: Social Learning in Virtual Worlds Description: As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, the Centre for HCI Design at City University London is organising a virtual seminar on the topic of [...]

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Our Tour Begins… Originally uploaded by kjarrett Had a great time in SL last night with Jung Lee, Associate Professor of Instructional Technology at nearby Richard Stockton College in Pomona, NJ. She was in Millville, NJ with one of her MAIT cohorts, about a dozen people I think, a mixture of administrators and teachers, all [...]

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