The Story of My “Second Life”

Hi everyone, For those of you who made it to the session on time, despite my lame mixup of SLT/EDT (so sorry!), this was an event to remember! Maggie Marat (RL: Peggy Sheehy), Kathy Dryburgh (RL: Kathy Schrock), Pathfinder Linden (RL: John Lester) and Kittygloom Cassady (RL: Jennifer Ragan-Fore) presented live at Metanomics‘ Muse Isle [...]

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We start in 15 minutes! Locations for co-broadcasting (if one is full): http://slurl.com/secondlife/Muse%20Isle/163/175/30 http://slurl.com/secondlife/Colonia%20Nova/195/216/44 http://slurl.com/secondlife/Outreach/127/132/24 http://slurl.com/secondlife/Grieg/188/58/32 http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rockcliffe%20I/150/224/69 See you there! -kj-

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Don’t miss “METANOMICS: The Virtual Chalkboard” today, Monday, 7/28 at Noon SLT/PDT (3pm EDT)! [Note - this is a corrected time!] For more information: http://www.metanomics.net/Event072808 Quoting from the announcement above: Join Metanomics at Noon on Monday, July 28th, to learn about how K-12 teachers are using the Virtual Chalkboard. Hear superstar educator Kathy Schrock of [...]

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Hey everyone, The Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County is holding its 2008 Technology Summit (a live event) on Thursday, 8/14 at ImaginOn: The Joe & Joan Martin Center, The Wachovia Playhouse. For more information, click here. Anastasia Goodstein is keynoting and she will be audio streamed into Eye4You Alliance Library’s InfoIsland Open Air [...]

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This summer just keeps getting better and better… A couple of weeks ago, I got an email from Marc Aronson, young adult author, blogger for School Library Journal, who apparently stumbled across my blog and wanted to connect. Here’s what he said: I am a historian and trade (not textbook) author who is very interested [...]

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Well my presentations (four!) are pretty much ready, the bags are mostly packed, and the wife & kids are scampering around the house getting ready for our trip to Wildwood! For them, it’s a vacation, two days and two nights at this awesome hotel, but for me, it’s another conference, not just any conference, but [...]

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Hi everyone, At 6:00 pm SLT tonight, Tuesday, July 15th, Miguel Guhlin (SL: Hummingbird Looming), Director of Instructional Technology at San Antonio Independent School District [SAISD]) will be presenting an ISTE Speaker Series talk entitled: “The TILT Initiative at SAISD – Highlighting the ISTE Certified Capstone Courses from PBS TeacherLine.” He will speak on this [...]

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The whirlwind that has been my life since the last day of school continued with a vengeance this past week at GLS 4.0. It was a conference unlike any other for me personally, the most academically-centered, mentally rigorous, casual yet intense, exhilirating and exhausting two and a half days I’ve ever experienced. The event began [...]

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David Warlick’s got it covered – here: http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/?p=1511

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