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 February 2009

Looking for scholarly virtual meetups? Join the Virtual Worlds Research Discussion Group!

February 6th, 2009 · No Comments

Jonathan Richter (SL: Wainbrave Bernal) just shared this great resource to via his Diigo account and I thought I’d pass it along. It’s called the Virtual Worlds Research Discussion Group and it’s run by Deb McCormick (SL: Seeker Esparza) and  Greg Wadley (SL: Grog Waydelich).  Meetings are held on Mondays at 2:00 PM SLT and [...]

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ISTE’s Eduverse Talks Episode 1: That’s a wrap!

February 4th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Now THAT was FUN! Ok, so the 6,782 hours of preparation leading UP to last night was a lot like WORK, but, wow, what an experience. Thanks to our terrific guests (Sarah Robbins, AJ Kelton and Brock Dubbels), the astounding SLCN.tv staff (Starr Sonic [SL] and Yxes Delacroix [SL]) and Jennifer Ragan-Fore and her entire [...]

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ISTE Eduverse Talks – Episode #1: See you in the Quad: Connecting Real and Virtual Campuses

February 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

In a few hours, I’ll be joining Sarah Robbins (SL: Intellagirl Tully), AJ Kelton (SL: AJ Brooks) and Brock R. Dubbels (SL: GrandmasterFoo Woodget) for a something new on ISTE Island, our first-ever episode of the Eduverse Talks series. It’s an hour-long bi-weekly talk show that will be broadcasted live on SLCN.tv (and archived). It’s [...]

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Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2009 Second Life Conference March 27-29 2009

February 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

In the unlikely event you didn’t already know, the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2009 Second Life Conference will be held from March 27-29 in Second Life. It’s being organized by Kevin Feenan (SL: Phelan Corrimal) of the Rockcliffe University Consortium, a non-profit institution created to promote of education and research using virtual models [...]

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