Archive for February, 2008
Hilarious History Lesson
In: funny bits
13 Feb 2008One of my colleagues sent me a link to this awesome video which made me laugh so hard that I snorted coffee all over my pretty computer. Please join me in enjoying Drunk History.
Kentucky getting people back to school?
In: General Whatnot
13 Feb 2008The State of Kentucky is instituting a program to get people who have completed some college credit to come back to school and finish their degrees. The program, Project Graduate, is offering incentives such as improved registration/advising processes, some financial aid, professional development for faculty who teach adults and gearing course schedules to accomodate [...]
Community Colleges SL Group meetings!
In: Second Life
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CCSL Mentoring Session, originally uploaded by notmarian.
So I started this group called “Community Colleges in SL” (CCSL) within Second Life. It now has over 100 members and is [...]
Imagination Cubed
In: Cool Tools
10 Feb 2008Here’s something nifty! This tool, brought to us by our friends at GE, allows the user to make animations using a variety of tools. Students could use this to express themselves or one could sit a child down in front of it for hours of free time. I just used the Stamp and [...]
Google Docs with Forms–Be still my heart!
In: Cool Tools
9 Feb 2008Google docs now has a share option where you can select a form. So, you share your spreadsheet, make up your questions or whatever you need people to fill in on the spreadsheet, then all of the responses to your form are recorded on the spreadsheet. Brill!
First Posts are sort of awkward…
In: General Whatnot
9 Feb 2008I am a librarian with a life-long love of community college education. So, in my blog you will find a lot of my posts are about community colleges. You will also find information about Community Colleges in Second Life, my most recent passion. The College at which I am most fortuitously employed recently granted [...]
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- keedsibbrobia: I am fairly brand new to this type of community conversation thing yet Im enthusiastic to ai [...]
- Clara: I cannot believe this. I am sick of big research institutions getting the majority of funds leaving [...]
- Denise: Oh sorry, SocProf. You have to have Second Life on your computer to redirect to that link. Get Seco [...]
- SocProf: :-( Firefox does not know how to open the link. [...]
- Monk Zymurgy: I have to agree..Sita Sings the Blues is super great. I loved it so much, i watched it twice already [...]