The Story of My “Second Life”

A K-20 educator's grant-funded, four- to six-month, fully-part-time (partially full-time?) immersion into and exploration of the world of "Second Life"


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Entries from January 2009

Free ISTE workshop: Changing Your Avatar Appearance – Saturday 1/31 9-11am SLT

January 31st, 2009 · No Comments

Just thought I’d pass this along – sorry for the short notice – if you’ve got time, these workshops are terrific! Elaine always does an awesome job! When:  Saturday, January 31, 2009 Time:  9 am – 11 am SLT Where:  ISTE Island 3: http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island%203/117/219/29 What: Would you like to learn how to customize your avatar [...]

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Tags: ISTE Socials/Events

Are you free Saturday night? Check out the Jokaydia Mini-Unconference!

January 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments

In case you missed it, Jokay Wollongong is kicking off a free monthly unconference series that promises to be worth checking out. I plan to be there, even though it’s past my bedtime. ;-) You can check out what’s planned by visiting the wiki or even propose your own session. Jokay’s islands are a terrific [...]

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Tags: Conferences · Events

Free Webinar! Educators as StoryKeepers: Capturing Our History-Making Journey with Education Technology (Friday 1/30 2pm EDT)

January 29th, 2009 · No Comments

Good morning all, My dear friend and colleague Bernajean Porter is presenting a free webinar tomorrow, January 30 @ 2:00 pm Eastern time in conjunction with ISTE. As she explained in an email to me recently, “it is part of the Thirty-Year Anniversary featuring the gathering of our digital storytelling of how technology has made [...]

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Tags: ISTE · Webinars

The Learning Experience: amazing, free, virtual university!

January 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Hey everyone, Came across this terrific resource thanks to a diigo tag by Wainbrave Bernal. The Learning Experience (http://www.tleinsl.com/) is a massive, seven-sim, free (user-supported) university in Second Life offering free classes & events, a wide range of interest groups (that, thankfully, count towards your Linden-imposed 25 group limit), interactive museums of World History and [...]

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Tags: Places